PREDICT’s work illuminated both the threat that emerging viruses pose to us, as well as the impact that strategic investments in strengthening preemptive capacity for virus surveillance can have on rapid disease detection and response.
10 YEARS OF PREDICT
PREDICT enabled global surveillance of pathogens that can spillover from animal hosts to people by building capacities to detect and discover viruses of pandemic potential. The project is part of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats program and is led by the UC Davis One Health Institute.
Our team operates in over 30 countries to proactively strengthen health systems to detect emerging disease threats at their source.
Developed the One Health Workforce by training more than 6,800 people in over 30 countries.
Operationalized One Health surveillance and sampled over 164K animals and people, helping minimize the spillover of zoonotic disease threats from animals into human populations.
Detected over 1,100 unique viruses (949 novel, 217 known), including zoonotic diseases of public health concern such as Bombali ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, Marburg virus, and MERS- and SARS-like coronaviruses.
