Pandemics
DAI-Led Team Selected to Implement USAID Response to Emerging Infectious Diseases
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 10th, 2009
The global infectious disease program, called RESPOND, funded at up to $185 million, is the largest of five U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects designed to improve local institutional capacity to respond to "zoonotic" diseases--those that originate in animals and develop the capacity to infect humans.
"Even a partial list of recent zoonotic diseases--SARS, West Nile Virus, Ebola, avian influenza, novel H1N1--reveals the urgency of our work at the intersection of human and animal health," said Jerry Martin, Managing Director...
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