CDC’s Response Goals and Objectives
CDC’s global response builds on its Strategy for Global Response to COVID-19 (2020-2023) to define program priorities, develop monitoring and evaluation criteria, and set targets for impact. The U.S. COVID-19 Global Response and Recovery Framework pdf icon[PDF, 317K]external icon provides overarching goals and objectives to end the pandemic, mitigate wider harms to people and societies, and strengthen global recovery and readiness for future pandemic threats.
CDC’s Strategy for Global Response to COVID-19 (2020–2023) are to:
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- Strengthen capacity to plan for and deliver COVID-19 vaccines, and to evaluate vaccines and vaccination programs using timely, accurate data (Global VAX);
- Strengthen capacity at country and regional levels to prevent, detect, and respond to COVID-19 cases and future pandemic threats by:
- Strengthening the global public health workforce
- Strengthening surveillance and laboratory systems and modernizing data systems
- Prevent and mitigate COVID-19 transmission across borders, in communities, in healthcare facilities, and among healthcare workers;
- Contribute to the scientific understanding of COVID-19 and other pandemic and emerging threats and address critical unknowns;
- Strengthen the global health architecture working with multilateral and multisectoral partners to augment surveillance, laboratories, alert systems and capacities for early and effective prevention, detection, and response to potential health emergencies.
Entire content available on: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/global-covid-19/global-response.html
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