Global Immunization Division (GID)

Branches of GID

Strengthening Immunization Systems Branch (SISB)

Responsible for providing technical and programmatic support for strengthening routine immunization services, development of integrated surveillance systems for vaccine preventable diseases, global immunization policy and vaccine financing, and enhancing new vaccine introduction. In addition, GID participates in research activities related to measles elimination and mortality reduction, polio eradication, strategies to improve routine immunization, and strategies to integrate immunization with other child survival activities. Work in GID is done in collaboration with other Divisions within the Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, foreign governments, and international partner agencies including WHO, UNICEF, the GAVI Alliance, and World Bank.

Disease Elimination and Eradication Branch (DEEB)

Responsible for providing technical and programmatic support for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the Measles Initiative to reduce global measles mortality, for regional efforts to eliminate measles in the European, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Pacific regions of WHO, and for rubella, hepatitis B, and neonatal tetanus control and elimination.

• The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (exit)
• The Global Polio Eradication Program (exit)
• Articles on global eradication of diseases, global partners, and related web sites

 

Global Immunization Strategic Framework 2006-2010

The purpose of this strategic plan is to articulate the goals, objectives, and strategies of CDC and its global partners for effectively meeting the global immunization challenges from 2006-2010. Achievement of these goals will require that CDC work closely and effectively with global partners. This document is intended to build on and complement CDC’s previous five-year plan, Global Immunization 2002-2006: An Over-Arching Strategy for CDC.

• CDC Global Immunization Strategic Framework 2006-2010 (554 KB, 36 pages); (text-only)

 

GID Global Partners

The scope and intensity of global health challenges ensures that no single country or agency can work alone to meet them. To contribute to shared global health objectives, CDC works in close partnership with a wide array of international agencies and institutions to shape global health policies and to fund, implement, and evaluate programs. CDC partners with international and multinational organizations, other federal agencies within the U.S. Government, private foundations, universities, and global health organizations. Many of these are linked below.

• Advance Market Commitment for Vaccines (exit)
• American Red Cross (exit)
  • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (exit)
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (exit)
• BASICS II Project (Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival) (exit)
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (exit)
• CDC Foundation
• Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) (exit)
• International Finance Facility for Immunization (exit)
• International Vaccine Institute (exit)

• Diseases of the Most Impoverished Program (exit)

• PATH/Children’s Vaccine Program (exit)
• Public Health Agency Canada (CPHA) (exit)
• Rotary International (exit)
• Sabin Vaccine Institute (exit)
• UNICEF (exit)
  • UNICEF Supply Division (exit)
  • UNICEF Supply Division Product Menu for GAVI Vaccines(exit)
  • Immunization Plus Pages (exit)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (exit)
• Vaccine Resource Library (exit)
• World Bank (exit)
• World Health Organization (exit)

• Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) (exit)
• IVB Document Center (exit)
• Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS) (exit)
• WHO statistics and graphics (exit)
• WHO country profile selection (exit)

 

See also:

• Employment
• Programs in Brief

 

 

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