Coordinating Research on Emerging Arboviral Threats Encompassing the Neotropics (CREATE-NEO)
Pathogen Focus: Chikungunya Virus, Dengue Virus, Mayaro Virus, Yellow Fever Virus, and Zika Virus CREATE-NEO Website
The Coordinating Research on Emerging Arboviral Threats Encompassing the Neotropics (CREATE-NEO) project will combine arbovirus surveillance across Central and South America with predictive modeling efforts to better anticipate and counter arbovirus emergence. CREATE-NEO will forewarn local, regional, and global public health agencies of arboviruses within Central and South America that pose particularly high risk of spillover, emergence into transmission among humans, and/or international spread. CREATE-NEO will also build local capacity to detect, predict, and respond to emerging arboviruses at their point of origin, which will maximize the potential to avoid full-blown viral emergence. Importantly, CREATE-NEO can quickly redirect to address any emerging animal to human or biological vector-borne disease.
This Research Center is supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U01AI151807
Site Locations
- Brazil
- Panama
- United States
Partners
- University of Texas Medical Branch (Lead Organization)
- Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies (Panama)
- Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP) (Sao Jose do Rio Preto, Brazil)
- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD) (Manaus, Brazil)
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (CIES)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)