Tanzania Global Health Security Partner Engagement: Advancing Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health (360337) Grant FORECAST

Tanzania Global Health Security Partner Engagement: Advancing Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health (360337) Grant

Funder: Dept. of Health & Human Services: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

The CDC collaborates with the Tanzanian government to enhance public health security by adhering to International Health Regulations. This initiative focuses on strengthening biosurveillance systems, expanding emergency operation capacities, improving laboratory capabilities, ensuring timely disease reporting, and developing a skilled biosurveillance workforce. Through these efforts, Tanzania aims to effectively predict and respond to health threats, fostering a robust health security framework.

CDC is working with the Tanzania government to meet key International Health Regulations requirements through implementation of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). Tanzania completed the Joint External Evaluation and launched a costed National Action Plan for Health Security based on a multi-sectorial approach.
This NOFO supports programs/activities in the following areas:
strengthening biosurveillance systems networked to information sharing platforms to predict and identify health threats, including at points of entry; expanding emergency capacity through national and subnational emergency operation centers; enhancing national laboratory capabilities and applying biosafety and biosecurity best practices for accurate, and reliable detection of outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance and emerging zoonotic diseases; increasing timely and transparent reporting of disease emergencies and threats to relevant national and international authorities; and developing a functional biosurveillance workforce with trained disease detectives and laboratory scientists.