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CDC Global Rapid Response Team | Division of Global Health Protection | Global Health | CDC

CDC Global Rapid Response Team | Division of Global Health Protection | Global Health | CDC

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CDC Global Rapid Response Team



Dr. Frieden at Press Club, May 2016



CDC is standing up the Global Rapid Response Team (Global RRT) to enhance its emergency response capacity and strengthen the global emergency workforce. The team will serve as a deployable asset to help CDC experts respond to global public health concerns. The Global RRT will:
  • Work with and provide support to CDC country offices, ministries of health, and international public health organizations
  • Help CDC experts respond to health threats when and where they occur
  • Provide long-term staffing for international emergency responses in the field and in Atlanta
  • Deploy field-based logistics, communications and management and operations to support emergency operations
  • Provide additional staff for backfilling critical overseas vacancies
  • Serve as CDC’s counterpart to the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART)
  • Assist partner countries to achieve International Health Regulation (IHR) compliance

The Global RRT can provide support and expertise in…

  • Capacity building
  • Coordination
  • Epidemiology
  • Field logistics
  • Health promotion
  • Lab support
  • Long-term staffing
  • Management
  • Partnership building
  • Rapid assessment
  • Risk communication
  • Surveillance

CDC Global Rapid Response Team Locations

The Global RRT will have approximately 50 staff on call to deploy at any given time, and a coordinator in Geneva. The team will be located at CDC’s Atlanta headquarters and in the field. Field locations (East Africa, West Africa, Middle East, and Asia) have been selected based on their proximity to areas most affected by health threats and their familiarity with responding to emergencies.
 The team will be located at CDC’s Atlanta headquarters and in the field.

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