To enable veterinary students from across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean to learn more about opportunities in public health for veterinary professionals.

To optimize interventions and tools to enable the elimination and eradication of prioritized Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) as identified by the London Declaration.

To support key initiatives addressing typhoid and cholera including the evaluation manuscript of the pilots of the Burden and Risk Assessment in Typhoid (BRAT) framework, the implementation of the BRAT tool in real-world settings and the development of a manuscript on vaccination strategies in conflict settings.

To further research how viral ovarian tumor protease (vOTU) activity is critical for replication and host tropism of nairoviruses.

To investigate other novel interventions, such as monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against malaria. An intervention that could prevent malaria in children for a full 12 months in settings of perennial malaria transmission, such as Kenya, holds potential to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality substantially in this population at risk for severe malaria and death.

To support the chemistry, manufacturing and control (CMC) and preclinical development of an inactivated rotavirus vaccine.

To increase public awareness of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues and improve conditions in communities experiencing limited access or unsafe water systems in the United States.

To continue to increase health security in countries by improving their capacity and expanding support using new and more relevant tools of the National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) Toolkit in at least six countries.

To maintain, produce, authenticate and distribute arthropod vectors and associated reagents for the Emerging Infections Resources Program.

To leverage the WHO Global Rotavirus Surveillance Network (GRSN) by using novel technology to achieve a better understanding of the role of enteric pathogens other than rotavirus in childhood diarrhea requiring hospitalization and create the Global Pediatric Diarrheal Surveillance Network (GPDS).

To provide support to CDC, working toward the elimination of healthcare-associated infections in all medical care settings.

To support the production and qualification of inactivated rotavirus vaccine clinical material.