Supporting WHO's work in epidemic preparedness

This project includes twelve diverse areas of work conducted by WHO to increase epidemic preparedness, including the development of an Innovative Rodent Control and Human Health strategy; development of a tool to assess epidemic vulnerability of countries; a scoping plan for design software to link genomic and surveillance data; the use of modern sequencing technologies in outbreak response; defining Standard of Care (SoC) for Ebola and Marburg outbreaks; support to the Zika virus(ZIKV) Individual Participant Data (IPD) Consortium; development of new modules for GO-Data and improved functionality and rollout of training of super-users; gene editing technologies and implications for human health; development of generic protocols prepositioning and training for Ebola vaccines deployment and Ebola therapeutics clinical trials in target countries; development of a Rift Valley Fever (RVF) R&D Roadmap; development of a Zika R&D Roadmap through holding the first Taskforce meeting; and first steps in developing a Meningitis R&D Roadmap. The total cost is 2,510,000 USD The costs are 2,183,700 USD plus 326,300 USD programme support costs (13%).