Program Accomplishments and Lessons Learned in Building Global Health Security

CDC has a leading role in the implementation of the United States Government Global Health Security Strategy because of its proven experience and accomplishments with foundational programs like the Global Disease Detection (GDD) program.

Study staff administering neurologic symptom questionnaire as part of Zika study in Iquitos, Peru.

With 10 Regional Centers (RCs) that support more than 100 countries, the GDD program conducted groundbreaking public health research, detected diseases before they became significant threats, developed or deployed new laboratory tests to identify sources of illness, established collaborative workforce training programs such as the Field Epidemiology Training Program, and built in-country capacity to respond faster and smarter to outbreaks.

The highly-anticipated BioMed Central (BMC) journal supplement, “Ten Years of Global Disease Detection and Counting: Program Accomplishments and Lessons Learned in Building Global Health Security,” highlights the successes and lessons learned through the GDD program and its RCs around the world.