US Vice President Kamala D. Harris will launch the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Southeast Asia Regional Office in Hanoi at a ceremony on the afternoon of August 25.
According to the US Embassy in Vietnam, the ceremony will see the attendance of US Secretary of Health and Human Services, US CDC Director, Deputy Prime Ministers and Health Ministers from several countries.
The new Regional Office is expected to strengthen CDC’s ability to meet its mission of protecting Americans and people of the region by responding more rapidly to health threats wherever they occur and building key relationships to tackle shared health priorities.
CDC is uniquely suited to increase American engagement and collaboration with Southeast Asian leaders to enhance regional capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases and other emerging health threats.
Priorities for the new regional office include building tomorrow’s public health workforce, expanding regional public health laboratory training, developing innovative programs to improve health for mobile and migrant populations, ensuring a coordinated response to public health emergencies through networked Emergency Operation Centers, and strengthening the early warning system for the detection of zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases.
