24/7 PUBLIC HEALTH SUPPORT
Eagle Global Scientific (EGS) exceeds expectations through our support of the nation’s top public health infectious disease programs. EGS provides professional and technical expertise to the CDC, FDA, and DoD. We are focused on helping our country and international partners prepare and respond to emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and we work with our partners to advocate for the judicial and responsible use of antibiotics. Time and again, EGS is sought out to lead the response to infectious disease outbreaks including new tasks and deployments for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020, ongoing work with Zika, the 2014-2016 Ebolavirus pandemic, and myriad other projects and contracts dedicated to reducing morbidity and mortality while reducing costs and streamlining the logistics required to rapidly diagnose and treat patients. Our past and present work reduces the disease burden and the cost to local and government public health entities.
NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES (NCIRD)
EGS provides professional, technical, scientific, epidemiological, and public health support to NCIRD/DVD/RVB via an IDIQ contract vehicle. This work involves the prevention and control of respiratory viruses including coronaviruses, Respiratory Syncytial Viruses (RSV), HMPV, parainfluenza viruses, rhinoviruses, and adenoviruses. Our work with the Respiratory Syncytial Viruses Team supports the CDC’s mission, goals and objectives by providing data scientists with extensive epidemiological and data quality experience (e.g., SAS, R, SUDAAN); scientific/medical communication professionals with proficiency in large-scale joint ventures; technical/program support staff, including in the Office of the Branch Chief. EGS seeks out personnel with experience in data retrieval and analysis from the New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS).
GLOBAL DISEASE DETECTION LABORATORY TEAM (GDDLT)
EGS provides senior leadership to meet the operational objectives of the Global Disease Detection Laboratory Team (GDDLT) within the CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP). To this end, EGS Senior Scientists collaborate with the Ministries of Health (MoH); staff from GDD (including GDD Centers and other countries requesting GDD technical assistance), DGHP, CGH and other Center Institute Offices (CIO); and external partners to assess partner country laboratory system capacity and needs. EGS also assists in the development and implementation of country-specific laboratory system enhancements. Our support provides technical assistance to GDD leadership and gives policy-related oversight to GDD’s cooperation with host-countries.
As a technical resource, EGS trains specialists and mentors in a broad range of clinical and public health laboratory disciplines with emphasis on laboratory systems, microbiology bench training, laboratory establishment, and strategic planning for Global Health Security.
Division of Healthcare quality promotion (DHQP)
The DHQP mission is to protect patients and healthcare workers and to promote safety in healthcare settings. EGS supports the DHQP in the following areas:
Investigating and responding to emerging infections and adverse events in healthcare facilities, including healthcare-associated infections; antimicrobial drug-resistant infections; adverse events from the use or misuse of a drug (e.g., accidental overdoses); blood, organ, and tissue safety; and vaccine safety.
Supporting the enhancement of state infrastructure for the elimination of healthcare-associated infections.
Developing and disseminating evidence-based guidelines and recommendations to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, and medication errors.
Providing healthcare facilities, states, and federal agencies with data for action through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), a tool for monitoring and preventing healthcare-associated infections, which is used by healthcare facilities in all fifty states.
Division of Global Migration & Quarantine (DGMQ) – Antibiotic Resistance Projects
Currently, the United States requires health screening for all long-term permanent resident (LPR) visa applicants and all refugees, no matter the country of origin. The DGMQ partnered with EGS in its challenge to meet the five-year “Combatting Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria” (CARB) goal for doubling the number of migrants that are screened for Tuberculosis (TB).
EGS works to expand the DGMQ's capacity to prevent the incidence and prevalence of these multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis cases. EGS supports the DGMQ in the following areas:
Communication, Training, Education and Collaboration
Public Health Program Development, Management, and Operations
Epidemiological Support
Division of Bacterial Diseases (DBD)
Burkina Faso "RESPIRE" Flagship Project
EGS has Subject Matter Experts that work full-time in Burkina Faso and lead support for the U.S. Global Health Security Agenda’s (GHSA) new RESPIRE project. RESPIRE is focused on strengthening surveillance and laboratory capacity to detect and respond to clusters of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in hospitals and communities. The Burkina Faso RESPIRE project is designed to show measurable health impact within a short period of support.
Division of Global HIV & Tuberculosis (DGHT) – GLOBAL HIV/AIDS
EGS has provided over six years of scientific and professional services in support of the CDC’s Division of Global HIV & Tuberculosis (DGHT) and has recently been awarded a new five-year IDIQ contract, through a competitive procurement process. This IDIQ aims to continue our efforts of preventing the spread of HIV globally. The CDC’s DGHT is a key U.S. Government implementer of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). It provides direct peer-to-peer technical, financial, and program service delivery assistance to Ministries of Health (MoH) in order to:
Build sustainable public health information, laboratory, and management systems and local workforce capacity;
Expand quality care and treatment service delivery, and transition these services to local host government ownership;
Implement effective and evidence-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs that build synergies between prevention, and care and treatment programs;
Conduct, translate, and operationalize research on program impact and cost effectiveness.
The International AIDS Conference is the premier gathering for those working in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic.
The following poster was presented at the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington DC and co-authored by two of our senior scientists that support DGHT’s International Laboratory branch (ILB).
DIVISION OF FOODBORNE, WATERBORNE AND ENTERIC DISEASES (DFWED), WATERBORNE DISEASE PREVENTION BRANCH (WDPB)
The Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch (WDPB) of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Enteric Diseases (DFWED) works to maximize the health, productivity, and well-being of people in the United States and around the globe through improved and sustained access to safe water for drinking, recreation, and other uses, adequate sanitation, and basic hygiene practices.
EGS supports the mission of WDPB through the placement of experienced public health professionals, medical communication specialists, microbiologists, epidemiologists, bioinformatics experts and data scientists. Our collaboration brings us closer to a world where everyone has access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and basic hygiene practices. Work within WDPB focuses on domestic and global needs including outbreak investigations and promotion of CDC’s Safe Water System.