TY - JOUR
T1 - Contributions of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in implementing the Global Health Security Agenda in 17 partner countries
AU - GHSA Implementation Group
AU - Fitzmaurice, Arthur G
AU - Mahar, Michael
AU - Moriarty, Leah F
AU - Bartee, Maureen
AU - Hirai, Mitsuaki
AU - Li, Wenshu
AU - Gerber, A Russell
AU - Tappero, Jordan W
AU - Bunnell, Rebecca
AU - Widdowson, Marc-Alain
N1 - CPDF
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a partnership of nations, international organizations, and civil society, was launched in 2014 with a mission to build countries' capacities to respond to infectious disease threats and to foster global compliance with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assists partner nations to improve IHR 2005 capacities and achieve GHSA targets. To assess progress through these CDC-supported efforts, we analyzed country activity reports dating from April 2015 through March 2017. Our analysis shows that CDC helped 17 Phase I countries achieve 675 major GHSA accomplishments, particularly in the cross-cutting areas of public health surveillance, laboratory systems, workforce development, and emergency response management. CDC's engagement has been critical to these accomplishments, but sustained support is needed until countries attain IHR 2005 capacities, thereby fostering national and regional health protection and ensuring a world safer and more secure from global health threats.
AB - The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), a partnership of nations, international organizations, and civil society, was launched in 2014 with a mission to build countries' capacities to respond to infectious disease threats and to foster global compliance with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assists partner nations to improve IHR 2005 capacities and achieve GHSA targets. To assess progress through these CDC-supported efforts, we analyzed country activity reports dating from April 2015 through March 2017. Our analysis shows that CDC helped 17 Phase I countries achieve 675 major GHSA accomplishments, particularly in the cross-cutting areas of public health surveillance, laboratory systems, workforce development, and emergency response management. CDC's engagement has been critical to these accomplishments, but sustained support is needed until countries attain IHR 2005 capacities, thereby fostering national and regional health protection and ensuring a world safer and more secure from global health threats.
KW - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
KW - Communicable Disease Control
KW - Disease Outbreaks
KW - Emergencies
KW - Global Health/legislation & jurisprudence
KW - Health Plan Implementation
KW - Humans
KW - International Cooperation
KW - Laboratories
KW - Preventive Health Services/methods
KW - Public Health
KW - Public Health Surveillance
KW - United States
U2 - 10.3201/eid2313.170898
DO - 10.3201/eid2313.170898
M3 - A1: Web of Science-article
C2 - 29155676
VL - 23
JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases
JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases
SN - 1080-6040
IS - 13
ER -