Completed Projects

Strengthening Global Disease Surveillance, Early Detection and Rapid Response

Rapid Outbreak Response Revolving Fund
To create within the World Health Organization an account dedicated to supporting rapid emergency response to infectious disease outbreaks.
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland

Strengthening National Health Preparedness
To assess preparedness for biological and chemical attacks in several nations by establishing and testing a set of international guidelines for preparedness, comparing them against existing public health capabilities that states have in place and making recommendations for improving those capabilities.
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland

Developing Diagnostic Kits for Select Biological Agents
To develop rapid diagnostic tests for select biological agents of most significance to Russia, to introduce them to health-care practices and to organize manufacturing of such tests. Once developed, these tests could help fill a critical global need for better diagnostic tests for the detection of infectious diseases.
Moscow State Central Research Institute for Epidemiology of the Health Ministry of Russia
Moscow, Russia

Biological Weapons Threat Reduction: Expanding Outbreak Reporting and Education in the Newly Independent States
To reduce the threat of biological weapons and other emerging infectious diseases in the new independent states, the International Society for Infectious Diseases will expand the scope of a Russian language–based electronic network (PROMED) that rapidly disseminates information about outbreaks of infectious diseases, including potential biological weapons attacks, to include more physicians, scientists and public health officials throughout the new independent states.
International Society for Infectious Diseases
Brookline, MA, USA

Joint Training on Laboratory Biosecurity and Biosafety in Egypt
To support a workshop to raise awareness of the threat of bioterrorism and the need for safe and secure handling of dangerous biological materials in bioscience facilities.
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology
Cairo, Egypt

Pandemic Influenza Simulation Exercises in Southeast Asia
To strengthen national and sub-regional disease surveillance capacity in the Mekong Basin area (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and China- Yunnan province), and develop a system that operates across borders, responds quickly to regional disease threats, and works to create equity in the national capacities to detect and respond to local outbreaks, and, hence, prevent regional or even global emergencies.
NTI and others

Promoting Science Security

Brucellosis Vaccine Research
To develop a new vaccine, employing former Soviet bioweapons scientists, to contribute to the management of this disease that threatens domestic and wild animal populations around the world.
All-Russian Research Veterinary Institute, Kazan, Russia;
International Science and Technology Center, Moscow, Russia (in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State)

Educating and Training the International Life Sciences Community on Dual-Use Dangers
To assess the best methods for educating and training life scientists about the risks of dual-use technologies and research and to cultivate a project for curriculum development in this area.

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