Tuesday, May 17, 2022
5/17/2022
The National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) a government parastatal is well prepared to use its experience, expertise and resources in partnership with Georgetown University (USA) and the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) to achieve the purpose of the NOFO Tanzania Global Health Security Partner Engagement: Advancing Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health - CDC-RFA-GH20-2101. If funded, the TAGHESP will implement cross-cutting strategies to enhance multisectoral engagement and partnerships to strengthen the country’s capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. We will undertake training, augmentation of coordination frameworks, development of tools and application of new technologies to enhance response and institutionalize use of data and information to help the country achieve 'Demonstrated Capacity' as per WHO Benchmark IHR Capacities (2019), improve interconnected global network that can respond rapidly and effectively to biothreats of international concern and reach sustainable capacity measured by relevant health security assessment. In addition, we will follow multisectoral approach in context of One Health to ensure more effective preparedness and response efforts. The implementation of TAGHESP will involve the following strategies: (1) mitigation of the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by strengthening national capacity through improving the rational use of antimicrobials, improve public awareness on AMR, surveillance of the resistance patterns, timely detection and responding to outbreak of new resistant strains through a “One Health” approach; (2) building a strong and functioning public health surveillance system capable of identifying potential public health events of concerns for public health and health security at the national and subnational levels; (3) strengthening the nationwide labo ratory system in human and animal sectors using effective modern point of care and laboratory-based diagnostics for the real-time biosurveillance, detection, identification and characterization of unusual organisms with pandemic potential or regional consequence; (4) Strengthening of the multidisciplinary workforce for prevention, detection and rapid response by through training of key stakeholders such as epidemiologists, and front liners to meet the global targets; and (5) Establish effective and efficient emergency response operations for both small and large scale outbreaks and other emergencies. This project will be implemented in Tanzania for a period of 5 years.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
