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The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) Process: Assessing health security in Côte d’Ivoire

Serigne Ndiaye, CDC GHSA Program Director for Cote d'Ivoire, center, meets with community leaders

Conducting a JEE Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is a small country in West Africa, neighboring Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. It has a population of over 25 million people, about half of whom live in urban centers across the country. Diseases of great concern for the country include yellow fever, cholera, meningitis, measles, Read More >

July 5, 2019 by Serigne Ndiaye, CDC GHSA Program Director

Côte d'Ivoire, GHSA, Global health security agenda, Ivory Coast, JEE, Joint External Evaluation

Cote D'Ivoire, GHSA, Global health security agenda, Ivory Coast, JEE, Joint External Evaluation, Ministry of Health

President Obama Cements Global Health Security Agenda as a National Priority

In the swirl of world events that range from economic uncertainty to continuing unease about terrorism, President Obama took an important step today to strengthen our ability to protect people in the United States and around the world from disease outbreaks. Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order that cements the Global Health Security Agenda Read More >

November 4, 2016 by Dr. Tom Frieden, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Archive, global health security

Executive Order, Global health security agenda, President, White House

Global Immunization: 50 Years of Work, Humanity, and Success

With her head tilted back, the picture depicts a young Nigerian girl, as she was holding her mouth wide open in order to receive her dose of orally-administered polio vaccine. This activity was taking place during Nigeria’s National - Stop Transmission of Polio Program (N-STOP), which is a refined and specialized offspring of two larger programs that train disease detectives: the (international) STOP program, and the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program. N-STOP is a key element in Nigeria’s effort to rid the country of this crippling disease.

This blog was originally posted on MyAJC.com on April 26, 2016. Government is a creature of numbers and statistics, a generator of such vast quantities of data and reports that it’s hard to appreciate sometimes the full human dimension of what it takes to protect everyone from vaccine-preventable diseases. That reality comes to mind as Read More >

April 27, 2016 by Rebecca Martin, PhD, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Global Health3 Comments

Archive, child health, immunization, measles, polio, rubella, women's/maternal health

Global health security agenda, smallpox, wild poliovirus, World Immunization Week

An Ounce of Prevention: Why we must strengthen basic TB control to defeat drug-resistant TB

Dr. Sujata Baveja and TB nurses provide patient information at the TB clinic of LTM Hospital in Mumbai, India. (Photo Credit: Susan Maloney, CDC)

To many, the idea of living in a world where there is no effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB) seems unthinkable. After all, we live in a modern era, with hospitals and drugs at our fingertips. TB is considered by some to be a disease of the past. But every year, more than 9 million people Read More >

March 23, 2015 by Thomas Kenyon, MD MPH, Director of CDC Center for Global Health1 Comment

Archive, tuberculosis (TB)

Global health security agenda, MDR TB, TB, World TB Day

Ebola Requires the World’s United Action

This blog is cross-posted on the White House website. The nations of the world, along with key international organizations, gather at the White House today to advance a Global Health Security Agenda that will help keep the world safe from infectious disease threats. This meeting is a critical opportunity to increase international commitment and, more Read More >

September 26, 2014 by Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of CDC1 Comment

Archive, Ebola, global health security

disease detectives, East Africa, EIS, Global health security agenda, Uganda

Helsinki, Finland – The Next Step in Accelerating Global Health Security

CDC Director Tom Frieden opens the February 13 Global Health Security Launch Event hosted by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

When senior leaders from more than 30 countries and 4 international organizations converge on Helsinki on May 5th for two days of intensive discussion, the over-arching topic will be one that is closely associated with Finland’s capital city – security. But this time, unlike 1975 when Helsinki hosted the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Read More >

May 4, 2014 by CAPT (USPHS) Eric Kasowski, DVM, MD, MPH – Chief, CDC Global Health Security Branch