Overview

With funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we are implementing the Building Capacity for National Public Health Institutes program in collaboration with global research and development nonprofit Battelle. 

Although specific mandates vary from country to country, national public health institutes (NPHIs) are integral to robust public health systems. NPHIs provide surveillance for emergency preparedness and outbreak response and are the focal point for national and international partnerships, sharing critical information about emerging diseases and providing evidence-based leadership during a crisis.

The program aims to support national governments to strengthen NPHIs’ ability to coordinate across government, the private sector, and civil society to carry out essential public health functions. By building NPHIs’ human, financial, technological, and physical resources to provide science-based leadership and coordination, we will reinforce their management capability to operate effectively and efficiently.

Simultaneously, we will develop an online, multicountry learning program to strengthen the leadership and management capacity of CDC alumni and local leaders. This learning program will equip them to effectively manage an epidemic response and enable better stewardship of scarce resources, more transparent decision making, prioritization of urgent activities, and collaborative learning and adaptation.