Global Health Security Agenda
The Global Health Security Agenda provides a framework for preventing, detecting, and responding to potential infectious disease threats. CDC Haiti is supporting the government of Haiti (GOH) in detecting emerging disease threats by bolstering laboratory and surveillance capacity through establishing a laboratory enhanced surveillance system and disease surveillance networks such as the National Cholera Surveillance System and the National Epidemiologic Surveillance Network. To build a strong, local epidemiologic workforce, CDC’s Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) works with the MSPP to strengthen national and local public health systems.
Since the Haiti program’s inception in 2011, the FETP has graduated 270 students who are trained to respond to disease outbreaks and conduct case investigations of epidemic-prone illnesses. Through mass immunization of children for measles and rubella in 2012 and the co-financing of new vaccines, CDC Haiti is working with partners and the MSPP to control vaccine-preventable diseases.
