Global Health Security: Prevention

This is achieved through the following objectives:

1. Preventing the emergence and spread of drug-resistant microbes and emerging zoonotic diseases and strengthening international regulatory frameworks governing food safety
   • Act to reduce the individual and institutional factors that enable antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of disease threats that move from animals to humans. These are known as zoonotic diseases.
   • Increase surveillance and early detection of drug-resistant microorganisms and novel zoonotic diseases.
   • Strengthen supply chains.
   • Promote safe practices in livestock production and the marketing of animals.
   • Promote the appropriate and responsible use of antibiotics in all settings, including developing strategies to improve food safety.
2. Promoting national biosafety and biosecurity systems
   • Promote the development of ways for countries to manage biological materials needed for diagnosis, research, and biosurveillance. This effort involves identifying, securing, safely monitoring, and storing dangerous microbes in a minimal number of facilities. It is also necessary to advance safe and responsible conduct for handling microbes.
3. Reducing the number and magnitude of infectious disease outbreaks
   • Establish effective programs for vaccination against epidemic-prone diseases and infection control in hospitals.

Examples of CDC Prevention Efforts

• Global Immunization