CDC awards $262 million for new disease outbreak response network
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Key takeaways:
- The CDC said 13 recipients will receive a share of more than $262 million to establish a first-of-its-its kind network.
- The Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Network will modernize surveillance systems.
The CDC has awarded $262.5 million in funding to develop and implement new tools to detect, respond to and mitigate future public health emergencies such as outbreaks and pandemics.
Funding for the Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Network (OADMN) will be distributed over 5 years to 13 state health departments, tribal organizations, academic institutions and private health care providers, the CDC said.
The 2021 American Rescue Plan called for creation of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) to modernize data and surveillance systems across the country, as well as develop advanced infectious disease models and analytical tools.
The CFA was formally launched by CDC in April 2022 with $26 million in funding to start, with an emphasis on health equity, developing a workforce and assembling early models on the omicron wave of SARS-CoV-2.
“The collaboration with our public health, private and academic partners over the last year to advance the science of disease forecasting and deliver decision support to leaders has been instrumental in improving outbreak response,” Dylan George, PhD, director of the CFA, said in a press release.
OADMN will be administered by the CFA, which chose the 13 institutions tasked with performing a “landscape analysis” to identify gaps and needs for outbreak analytics and disease modeling, pilot technologies for public health surveillance and prepare for and respond to infectious disease threats.
“Building upon that experience by establishing this national network will help us better respond to outbreaks and prevent pandemics in the future,” George said.
The 13 institutions are Carnegie Mellon University, Clemson University, Emory University, International Responder Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Northeastern University, the University of California, San Diego, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, University of Utah and University of Texas at Austin.
In December, the CDC also announced $3.2 billion in funding to expand, train and modernize the U.S. public health workforce, which includes additional efforts to bolster data systems and make them more interoperable.
The expanded efforts to improve data collection and analysis started early in the COVID-19 pandemic as gaps in surveillance and outreach systems were revealed, among other weaknesses investigated by the CDC about its COVID-19 response, officials and experts have previously said.
References:
- CDC announces $262M funding to support National Network for Outbreak Response and Disease Modeling. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0922-disease-modeling.html. Published Sept. 22, 2023. Accessed Sept. 25, 2023.
- CDC launches new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0419-forecasting-center.html. Published April 19, 2022. Accessed Sept. 25, 2023.
- CDC to invest $26 million in advanced outbreak forecasting and analytics. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p-1026-mill-funding.html. Published Oct. 26, 2021. Accessed Sept. 25, 2023.
- Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics: History of CFA. https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/about/history.html. Last reviewed Feb. 23, 2023. Accessed Sept. 25, 2023.
- New funding opportunity to strengthen outbreak response through data, forecasting and analytics. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0519-funding-opportunity.html. Published May 19, 2023. Accessed Sept. 25, 2023
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