Pre-positioned Outbreak Research: The Joint Medical Emerging Diseases Intervention Clinical Capability Experience in Uganda

Affiliation

• ¹ Karen A. Martins, PhD, is Research Health Science Program Manager, Medical Division; Chi Ritchie, MT, M(ASCP), is a Microbiologist; and Sina Bavari, PhD, is Science Director; all at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, MD. Rodgers R. Ayebare, MB ChB, CIC, is Site Coordinator; and Peter Waitt, MD, is Clinical Lead, Joint Mobile Emerging Disease Intervention Clinical Capability (JMEDICC), Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MA, is Associate Professor and Medical Director, Special Pathogens Unit, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. Francis Kiweewa, MD, is Head of Research and Scientific Affairs, Makerere University Walter Reed Project, and Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Research Administration (SICRA), Kampala, Uganda. Derrick Mimbe, MSC, and Stephen Okello, MD, are Program Managers, JMEDICC; Prossy Naluyima, PhD, is Laboratory Director; and Hannah Kibuuka, MD, is Executive Director, all in the Makerere University Walter Reed Project, Kampala, Uganda. David M. Brett-Major, MD, MPH, is a Professor, College of Public Health, and James V. Lawler, MD, MPH, is Executive Director, International Programs and Innovation, Global Center for Health Security and Division of Infectious Diseases; both at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Monica Millard, MPH, is Country Program Director, US Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa/Uganda (MRD-A/U), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Kampala, Uganda. Richard Walwema is a Laboratorian, and Mohammed Lamorde, PhD, is Head of Global Health Security, Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Anthony P. Cardile, DO, is at the Richard Barquist US Army Health Clinic, Ft. Detrick, MD. Antonia Kwiecien and Helen Badu are International Program Managers-Uganda, and Danielle V. Clark, PhD, is Director; all at Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO), Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, MD. Benjamin J. Espinosa, PhD, is Deputy Director, Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Frederick, MD. Charmagne Beckett, MD MPH, is with the Infectious Diseases Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD. Saima Zaman, MPH, is International Project Manager, Biological Threat Reduction Program, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, VA. George Christopher, MD, is Joint Project Manager, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Medical, Joint Program Executive Office for CBRN Defense, US Department of Defense, Fort Detrick, MD.