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Objectives
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Establish International Emerging Infections Programs (IEIPs)
- Help create International Emerging Infections Programs (IEIPs) that
- Train local scientists and CDC personnel
- Provide diagnostic and epidemiologic resources when outbreaks
occur
- Serve as platforms for regional infectious disease control activities
- Conduct public health research of global importance
- Disseminate proven health tools
Expand Training in Epidemiology, Public Health Management, and Laboratory
Diagnostics
- Increase training opportunities for foreign scientists in epidemiology,
public health management, and state-of-the-art laboratory techniques.
For example, CDC will provide training in
- PulseNets methods for fingerprinting strains of foodborne
bacteria (see Objectives
for Priority Area 2)
- Methods for identifying foodborne viruses
- Drug susceptibility testing of pathogens of public health importance
- DPDx, an Internet-based system to help confirm diagnoses of parasitic
diseases
- International public health management
- Managing and implementing HIV treatment and prevention programs
in Global AIDS Program countries (see Objectives
for Priority Area 5)
- Work through TEPHINET and other mechanisms to provide technical assistance
to health authorities in countries that are establishing or expanding
national schools of public health, new Field Epidemiology Training Programs
(FETPs), new Sustainable Management Development Programs, or the Rockefeller
Foundation-supported Public Health Schools Without Walls (PHSWOW). TEPHINET
is a public health network network that links FETP and PHSWOW staff.
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Help increase the number of public health workers in developing countries
who are trained in vaccine work by
- Encouraging training efforts by foreign governments, foundations,
and donor organizations (e.g., the WHO public health training project
in Lyon, France)
- Incorporating training components into such projects as the U.S.-India
Vaccine Plan, the Egyptian Schistosomiasis Vaccine Development Project,
and the HIV vaccine trials in Kenya and Côte dIvoire (Box
18)
- Training national and regional health workers in vaccine program
planning, monitoring, and evaluation as part of GAVIs effort
to improve routine immunization services and to introduce new and
underutilized vaccines into developing countries
- Provide training opportunities that increase international expertise
in the detection and treatment of prenatal and perinatal infections.
- Expand the cohort of public health professionals at CDC who have
international infectious disease expertise, by
- Creating an inventory of CDC staff to identify gaps in international
expertise
- Developing an international infectious disease training program
or seminar series for CDC staff, in collaboration with public health
and medical schools
- Establishing an exchange program that enables visiting scientists
from other countries to work at CDC and vice versa
- Working with the Association of Schools of Public Health and the
Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine to increase the number
of graduate courses that cover global infectious disease issues
- Expand opportunities for training in-hospital infection control and
clinical surveillance by providing
- Train-the-trainer courses in hospital epidemiology
- Technical assistance to hospital staff in designing and implementing
programs to reduce transmission of nosocomial pathogens
- Consultation to USAID and other donor organizations on infectious
disease projects that build infrastructure to improve the provision
of prenatal and perinatal care in developing countries
Enhance Availability of Guidelines and Other Publications
- In collaboration with WHO and international experts, draft regional
healthcare guidelines on the judicious use of antibiotics, including
antibiotics that are purchased over-the-counter. Regional healthcare
guidelines can be used to mount public health education campaigns on
antibiotic usage to help retard the development of drug resistance.
- Provide consultation to ministries of health in developing national
guidelines for
- Hospital infection control, including prevention of hospital
acquired pneumonia, TB, HIV/ AIDS, and other nosocomial infections
of local concern.
- Management of exposures to bloodborne pathogens like HIV and
hepatitis B and C.
- Disseminate new information on infectious disease issues through
the Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the Emerging
Infectious Diseases journal, and the CDC Web site.
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