Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health Globally
Jhpiego is leading a consortium of partners to support Global Health Security (GHS) through funding from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Enhancing Global Health Security is a 5-year project that builds on ongoing CDC funded investments to support GHS through implementation of programs focused on preventing, detecting and responding to public health emergencies of international concern.
Jhpiego and partners aim to contribute to improved:
- Interconnected global network that can respond rapidly and effectively to biological threats of international concern;
- Prevention of avoidable epidemics;
- Preparedness for potential future outbreaks;
- Ability to rapidly detect threats early in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, the West African Region more broadly, and the South American Region.
We work in close collaboration with multiple Centers, Divisions and Branches at CDC to prevent and mitigate the impact of outbreaks.
The consortium includes core partners Global Scientific Solutions for Health (GSSHealth), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS), with inputs from resource partner the Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Health (JHU CGH) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Emergency Care. Together we are accelerating achievement of GHS targets to protect and improve health globally through regional, national, and local partnerships.
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Where We Work
Burkina Faso
- National Laboratory Systems – system strengthening, biosafety/biosecurity, specimen transport
- Surveillance – Indicator-based, surveys, border health
- Human Resources – training, mentorship, FETP
- Emergency Response Operations – EOC support, RRT training
- Service Delivery – IPC, program evaluations
Democratic Republic of the Congo
In the DRC Jhpiego leads a CDC funded Global Health Security bilateral program focusing on protecting and improving health globally through partnerships with Ministries of Health and other governmental institutions, including support to establish a National Public Health Institute in DRC.
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Ethiopia
- Service Delivery – HCW infection monitoring, program evaluations
Liberia
- National Laboratory Systems – system strengthening
- Surveillance – event-based, border health
- Emergency Response Operations – RRT training
- Service Delivery – IPC
Mali
- National Laboratory Systems – system strengthening, biosafety/biosecurity, specimen transport
- Surveillance – border health
- Human Resources – training, FETP
- Emergency Response Operations – border health
Sierra Leone
- Surveillance – event-based, border health
- Emergency Response Operations – RRT training, border health
Pakistan
- National Laboratory Systems – system strengthening, biosafety/biosecurity
- Surveillance – border health
- Emergency Response Operations – EOC support, RRT training, RCCE
- Service Delivery – IPC
South America
- Surveillance – surveys
- Service Delivery – program evaluations
West Africa
- National Laboratory Systems – system strengthening
- Surveillance – event-based, border health
- Emergency Response Operations – RRT training, border health
Our Partners
A Collective Responsibility
Being a janitor is hard, hazardous and often underappreciated work. But Isaac Joseph, a janitor at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, knows the timely collection and disposal of infectious waste is critical to preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
I feel if I do my work honestly, I am doing a job well done for humanity at large.
Learn more by reading our Resources
Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health Globally – read our brief below in English or French and learn more about our key goals to:
- Improve prevention of avoidable epidemics including naturally occurring outbreaks and intentional or accidental releases of dangerous pathogens
- Improve ability to rapidly detect threats early, including detecting, characterizing and reporting emerging biological threats
- Improved interconnected global network that can respond rapidly and effectively to public health threats of international concern
Webinar on Jhpiego’s support of Event Based Surveillance in West Africa
Learn more about Genomics and Sequencing Technologies.
Read our quarterly update of Jhpiego DRC’s robust Global Health Security program!
Jhpiego’s work in Burkina Faso to improve infection prevention and control practices in health facilities.