RESPOND

RESPOND is one component of the U.S.

Agency for International Development (USAID)s Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program, and coordinates with three other projects: PREDICT, PREVENT, and IDENTIFY.

RESPOND's purpose is to strengthen the human capacity of countries to identify and respond to outbreaks of newly emergent diseases in a timely and sustainable manner.

RESPOND is a project that twins schools of public health and veterinary medicines in the hotspot regions with U.S. counterpart institutions to strengthen the capacities of countries to train cadres of professionals to identify and respond to outbreaks of newly emergent diseases in a timely and sustainable manner.

This project develops outbreak investigation and response trainings that merge animal- and human-health approaches toward a comprehensive capacity for disease detection and control.

RESPOND partners include DAI, the University of Minnesota, Tufts University, Training and Resources Group, and Ecology and Environment, Inc.