Updated August 5, 2016

1. Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD)Arboviral Diseases Branch (ADB)Who are we? What do we do? Tracy Hasvold Principal Management Official, Arbovirus Diseases Branch Division of Vector-borne Diseases National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Updated August 5, 2016

2. Division of Vector-Borne Diseases • World experts in vector-borne diseases (VBDs) • Respond to vector-borne disease outbreaks in support of state and local health officials • Provide science-based guidance and leadership • 4 branches in 3 locations: COLORADO PUERTO RICO RICO GEORGIA

3. A Coordinated Strategy for Vector-Borne Threats Build Comprehensive Vector Programs Advance Innovation & Discovery • Cutting edge diagnostic tools • Identification & increased • understanding of new and emerging • vector-borne disease threats • R&D • A skilled vector workforce • Robust state and local vector control • programs

4. Core Competencies Goal: Fully capable local vector-borne disease programs

5. New systems-approach to prevention and control of vector-borne diseases Goal: • Sustained, national capacity to detect, prevent, investigate, report, and control new and emerging vector-borne threats What’s Needed? • Consistency between large and small mosquito control programs • Focus on small program guidance for operations • Fully competent workforce and infrastructure capacity • Infrastructure and sustained support for • Local vector control units • Novel and proven vector control tools, accepted by the public

6. Challenges and gaps • Lack of proven control measure for Aedes aegypti (vector for dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, Zika) • Insecticide resistance likely widespread • Expanding mosquito range; shrinking entomologic workforce • Surveillance infrastructure diminishing • Patchwork of vector control units across the US • Largely underprepared • Focus on Culex mosquitoes, not AedesaegyptiorAedesalbopictus • Diagnostics inadequate for many pathogens • Lack of ability to respond to disease outbreaks/emergences in timely fashion

7. Funding Investments and Opportunities • Focused on new systems-approach and Zika • ADB new and enhanced programs, 2016-2018 • Cooperative agreements (Co-ags) • Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) • ArboNET • MosquitoNET • Regional Vector-borne Disease Centers of Excellence (COE) • National and international partner organizations (ASTHO, CSTE, NACCHO, PAHO, WHO, PIHOA) • Contracts • Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs) • American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) • Entomological Society of America (ESA) • Other work

8. The invitation before you… To join in a coordinated national strategic partnership to build the capacity, and framework for effective prevention and response to vector-borne diseases: • Training and equipping the next generation of public health entomologists • Conducting research to inform operational decisions, identify and validate effective disease prevention tool • Establishing functional relationships to assure response capacity to disease outbreaks of regional and national importance

9. Thank you and Questions