Global Health E-Brief
Stay informed with the most up-to-date information of interest to the CDC Washington policy community. Sent on a quarterly basis, the Global Health Newsletter informs policymakers about CDC's global health activities.
WELCOME to 2008’s first quarter Global Health E-Brief, designed to inform readers about key global health activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Our first issue of the year focuses on efforts to harmonize national global public health priorities across the U.S. Government and other public-private partnerships through Global Health Engagement—a strategic approach to leverage U.S. public health capabilities in support of equity, security, diplomacy, trade, development and the environment.
Co-authored with our interagency partners, this issue highlights Project Horizon, an ongoing interagency strategic planning process bringing greater cohesion to federal agencies with international mandates. This issue also features activities that exemplify Global Health Engagement, and a plan to chart its success.
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CDC is committed to promoting sustainable public health programs in resource-poor countries by building local capacity through training and infrastructure development. CDC fills a unique role in global workforce development—particularly through support of Ministry of Health staff and through training of clinical providers, epidemiologists, laboratory personnel, and public health managers. Several top locallyemployed staff (LE Staff) from CDC’s Global AIDS Program (GAP) country offices are visiting Atlanta and Washington D.C. from March 17–25, 2008, to participate in one such public health management trainings, the prestigious CDC Leadership and Management Institute (LMI). These staff from GAP offices in Uganda, Zambia, South Africa, and Nigeria, are the first locally-employed CDC staff to ever participate in the LMI, sponsored by CDC’s Corporate University. The aim of their participation is to build leadership and management capacity of foreign service nationals working for CDC in the field, and improve the overall effectiveness of CDC’s global operations. These leaders will also meet with Congressional staffers and leadership from CDC, HHS, and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator in the Department of State to discuss how CDC can improve support for its own LE Staff and the global health workforce in general. The six staff will also present at a briefing at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on U.S. options for global workforce development. This briefing will be webcast by the Kaiser Family Foundation, at the following address: www.kaisernetwork.org/ healthcast/csis/24mar08. Over the next year, the LE Staff will apply their newly-developed leadership and management expertise to a practical group project. The team will survey CDC LE Staff around the world and develop a set of recommendations on how CDC can better support its LE Staff with an eye toward building long-term sustainability of CDC’s global operations.
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