Overview

TickNET, a collaborative public health effort established by CDC in 2007, fosters coordinated surveillance, research, education, and prevention of tickborne diseases.

For more information:

• TickNET—A collaborative public health approach to tickborne disease surveillance and research.

Principal Partners

• State and local health departments
• CDC’s Division of Vector-borne Diseases and Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria

Through TickNET, CDC funds two types of extramural efforts:

• CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (EIP) supports applied research in the following states:
  • Connecticut
  • Maryland
  • Minnesota
  • New York
  • Tennessee
• The Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement (ELC) supports efforts to maintain and enhance basic surveillance in many states and several municipalities.