Rapid Detection & Response: State, territory, and local public health partners fight AR in health care, the community, and food.
Funding Amount: $680,265
CDC-funded HAI/AR Programs form a network of health departments that detect, prevent, respond to, and contain HAI/AR threats and promote appropriate use of antibiotics and antifungals. CDC’s AR Lab Network provides nationwide lab capacity to rapidly detect AR and inform local prevention and response activities to stop the spread of antimicrobial-resistant germs and protect people.
Drug-resistant Gonorrhea Detect & Respond Program works with state and local epidemiology and laboratory partners to test for and quickly respond to resistant gonorrhea to stop its spread in high-risk communities. Only one recommended treatment option remains for gonorrhea and resistance to other antibiotics continues to grow.
Funding Amount: $13,000
The Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) informs national treatment guidelines for gonorrhea by monitoring how well antibiotics work on laboratory samples collected from sentinel STD clinics, which often are the first to detect the threat. Select STD clinics also enhance surveillance by collecting additional gonococcal isolates from women and from extragenital sites. This work is jointly supported by CDC STI and AR funds.
Rush University Medical Center: CDC Prevention Epicenter
Funding Amount: $1,678,781
The Prevention Epicenters Program is a collaborative network of public health and experts in relevant fields of HAI and AR that responds to research priorities to protect patients. The network conducts research to support the translation of innovative IPC strategies for preventing HAIs, the spread of AR, and other adverse events in all healthcare settings.
Learn more: www.cdc.gov/hai/epicenters
Rush University Medical Center: Discovering & Implementing What Works
Funding Amount: $500,000
Investigators are implementing wastewater surveillance approaches for AR genes and antimicrobial-resistant organisms in healthcare settings within the central U.S. region.
Learn more: www.cdc.gov/hai/research/safehealthcare.html
American Medical Association: Innovative Prevention & Tracking
Funding Amount: $10,000
CDC’s Project Firstline is a collaborative of diverse partners that provides engaging, innovative, and effective IPC training for U.S. healthcare workers and the public health workforce. It offers resources in a variety of formats to meet the diverse learning needs and preferences of the healthcare workforce. Partners host events, create tools, and publish resources that help healthcare workers better understand and correctly implement IPC.
Learn more: www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/projectfirstline
Health Research and Educational Trust: Innovative Prevention & Tracking
Funding Amount: $10,000
CDC’s Project Firstline is a collaborative of diverse partners that provides engaging, innovative, and effective IPC training for U.S. healthcare workers and the public health workforce. It offers resources in a variety of formats to meet the diverse learning needs and preferences of the healthcare workforce. Partners host events, create tools, and publish resources that help healthcare workers better understand and correctly implement IPC.
Learn more: www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/projectfirstline
Health Research and Educational Trust: Innovative Prevention & Tracking
Funding Amount: $350,000
The American Hospital Association Living Learning Network is a virtual community of more than 660 members focused on transforming health care by sharing knowledge and concerns, expanding perspectives, and problem-solving together.
| AR | antimicrobial resistance |
| COVID-19 | coronavirus disease 2019 |
| HAI | healthcare-associated infection |
| IPC | infection prevention and control |
| NHSN | National Healthcare Safety Network |
| STI | sexually transmitted infection |
| STD | sexually transmitted disease |