With more than 20 years of experience and technical know-how in health systems strengthening, global health security, and human-centered digital design, our global health team delivers holistic, tech-enabled solutions to save lives and improve well-being worldwide.
We coordinate responses across sectors for a holistic approach to emerging infectious diseases and disease management.
A strong response starts with capacity building for governments, communities, universities, and regional professional networks.
Environmental changes, as well as economic and technological advancements, have changed how we interact with each other and our world, allowing infectious diseases to spread around the world at a much faster pace. As new diseases and disease variants capture headlines, we are increasingly aware of the risks created by the growing interconnectedness of the global health landscape.
Most emerging infectious diseases are transmitted to people by animals. Understanding these interactions allows us to better prepare for, monitor, and respond to diseases. We address these challenges at multiple levels, facilitating coordinated responses across sectors for a holistic approach to disease management and strengthening health systems resilience.
We apply a One Health approach linking animal, human and environmental health specialists to address zoonotic disease and other emerging health threats, including antimicrobial resistance.
A strong response starts with building the capacity of governments, communities, universities, and regional professional networks. For example, work with government partners to strengthen the national systems, policies and practices needed to formalize and institutionalize One Health. We also we build training curricula and instructional quality into programs for first-responders, support regional university-led One Health networks to strengthen public health epidemiology systems, and form cadres of public health professionals to address outbreaks. Communities and countries can most effectively mitigate the impact and spread of disease by collaborating across sectors to strengthen preparedness, surveillance, and response efforts in tandem.
DAI has implemented more than $250 million of global health security projects since 2006, including programs to address avian influenza, ebola, MERS, and diseases of unknown origin.
Dr. Emil Agustiono is a medical doctor and clinical epidemiologist with more than 30 years of experience working at the national, provincial, and district level in Indonesia on issues ranging from pandemic preparedness and response to disaster planning to antimicrobial resistance and food safety.
Elodie Brandamir has more than 15 years of experience managing public health programs in challenging environments.
Nicole DeCastro began her career in humanitarian and disaster response working with the U.S. Agency for International Development to address crises including Ebola in West Africa and the humanitarian emergency in Syria.
Dr. Nitish C. Debnath pioneered the One Health movement in Bangladesh in 2007 jointly with veterinarians, physicians and environmental scientists, and launched a new professional organization called One Health Bangladesh.
Drawing on a professional background that combines laboratory-based research and global health, Amethyst supports DAI’s Fleming Fund grant activities, which build the institutional and diagnostic capacity of laboratories and other organizations to perform surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Zobaidul Haque Khan is a medical doctor turned epidemiologist with 39 years of professional experience, including more than 21 years in the public health sector.
Dr. Rodion Kraus is a Senior Technical Adviser for DAI Global Health and the Project Director for the Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa Program (TDDAP), which works in six countries to strengthen health systems and institutions to deliver better health security and improve disease preparedness and response.
Dr. Andrew McKenzie has more than 30 years of experience in capacity building and management of health systems and services, working in the public sector, the private sector, in universities, and in nongovernmental organisations.
Jeffrey Mecaskey has more than 35 years of experience in health and political economics, health policy, and management. He is the Team Leader for the Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa (TDDA) project, which works in six countries to strengthen health systems and institutions to deliver better health security and improve disease preparedness and response.
Janine Mitchell is an Epidemiologist and Global Health Specialist with more than 15 years of experience and having worked in more than 30 countries.
Dr. Paula Quigley is a medical doctor with more than 30 years of experience in programme management, monitoring and evaluation, and health systems strengthening.
Dr. Ayesha Rasheed is a public health physician with more than 20 years of donor-funded, health program management experience, including oversight of field epidemiology and laboratory training programs.
Robert Salerno a global health and development practitioner with 15 years of experience working on complex development projects for a variety of donor and private sector clients.
Blessing Musa Stephen is a global health practitioner with a multidisciplinary background of expertise in pharmacy, public administration, management, and health economics, and more than 10 years of experience in the health development sector in Nigeria.
Dr. Lisa Stone is an accomplished medical and public health consultant with experience in public health policy, planning, and programs for nonprofit and governmental health agencies.
Tom Weaver has worked on livestock development and One Health projects in the Asia-Pacific region for more than 12 years.
The Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa (TDDA) programme aims to save lives and improve global health security by reducing the impact of disease outbreaks, epidemics, and other public health threats across sub-Saharan Africa.
Read MoreThe P&R project addressed the practical issues confronting national governments as they coped with the human, financial, and logistical constraints associated with pandemic threats.
Read MoreThe Integrated Approach to Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme supported the Nigerian government in controlling seven neglected tropical diseases—blinding trachoma, bilharzia, elephantiasis, river blindness, hookworm, whipworm, and roundworm. DAI Global Health was responsible for the health systems strengthening workstream.
Read MoreThe Malaria Action Program for States (MAPS) program in Nigeria was a comprehensive program that increased coverage and use of life-saving malaria interventions in support of the Nigeria National Malaria Strategic Plan and the National Malaria Elimination Program.
Read MoreDiseases of serious concern are emerging from wildlife populations in regions of the world where humans, wildlife, and livestock are increasingly in contact. RESPOND operated in hotspot regions where conditions are conducive for animal-to-human disease outbreaks.
Read MoreThe Support to the Nigeria Malaria Elimination Program (SUNMAP) strengthened Nigerian government management capacity by streamlining policy development, planning and coordination of malaria control activities in 10 states.
Read MoreThe STOP AI project provided technical resources and support services in preparedness planning, surveillance, and prevention; outbreak response; and re-infection prevention and recovery.
Read MoreWhen developing-country governments and agencies requested assistance related to these sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) issues, this program allowed the U.S. Agency for International Development and implementing agencies to respond.
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