Leading Products

The FAZD Center generates a stream of ongoing, meaningful products that address high-priority needs as identified by DHS. These products emphasize threat awareness, protective countermeasures, surveillance, intervention, and recovery. The center's products offer the benefit of concurrently reducing the risks from naturally emerging, intentionally introduced, or accidental disease outbreaks. The FAZD Center’s team of scientists and educators conduct cutting-edge, inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary research across three major themes:

Biological Systems

Vaccines, anti-virals, diagnostic tests and immunological platforms, with a focus on three select agents: Rift Valley Fever, Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Avian Influenza.

Information Analysis Systems

Computer models and epidemiologic/economic analyses designed to enhance decision-making at multiple levels of scale for decision makers during disease outbreaks.

Education and Outreach Systems

Graduate-level curricula, early responder training programs and stakeholder outreach programs designed to provide the next generation of science power.