Region
African Region
Destination Country
Uganda
Key objectives
Training and deploying an effective biosurveillance workforce.
Contribution Area
Human Resources
Destination Entity
Uganda
Source Entity
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC)
Activity
A workforce including physicians, veterinarians, biostatisticians, laboratory scientists, and at least 1 trained field epidemiologist per 200,000 population, who can systematically cooperate to meet relevant IHR and Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS) core competencies.
Contribution channel
Partner
Implementing partner
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)