named programs · 4 · from sources
What they call their work
Crisis Medical Aid
Delivers medical supplies to hospitals in crisis zones, including Ukraine, in collaboration with local partners.
GeoSentinel Surveillance Network Support
Provides funding and resources to the GeoSentinel network of 71 global sites for real-time monitoring of travel-related infectious diseases and emerging pathogens.
ISTM Research Awards
Supports early-career researchers through grants for studies on tropical diseases, vaccine development, and travel medicine, in partnership with the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Outbreak Response for Emerging Diseases
Funds rapid research and diagnostics for diseases including COVID-19, mpox, dengue, Zika, and Oropouche virus, including variant tracking and therapeutic trials.
activities · 4 groups
What they do
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Cancer Research Funding 1 activity
- Funding early-career researchers in global healthAwards grants to early-career researchers through the ISTM Research Awards program in 2022 and 2023 to advance research in travel and tropical medicine.
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Biomedical Research and Innovation 1 activity
- Funding infectious disease research and diagnostics developmentFunds research initiatives including the development and validation of diagnostic tools for COVID-19 severity assessment, sample pooling methods to reduce testing costs, finger-stick tests to guide hospitalization decisions, and multi-site clinical trials evaluating repurposed drugs for treating or preventing COVID-19.
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Community-Based Pandemic Testing and Vaccination 1 activity
- Supporting direct public health response and medical supply distributionProvides direct support during public health emergencies, including operating a public COVID-19 PCR testing site in New York City in April 2020 with same-day results for rapid case identification and contact tracing, and addressing medical supply shortages in Ukrainian hospitals through partnerships with local organizations such as VOCAT.
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Uncategorized 1 activity
- Operating global infectious disease surveillance networkConducts research and surveillance through the GeoSentinel network at 71 sites across 29 countries to detect disease trends and outbreaks in mobile populations, contributing to the identification and mitigation of major infectious disease threats including SARS, H1N1, Zika, COVID-19, and mpox since 1995.
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financials · form 990 · fy2024
revenue
Total revenue$712K
Contributions & grants$680K95%
Program service revenue$00%
Investment income$33K5%
Other revenue$0
expenses
Total expenses$443K
Program expenses76%
Admin / overhead22%
Fundraising2%
Salaries & benefits$0
Grants paid out$0
Largest expense lineProfessional Fees
balance sheet
Total assets$1.04M
Cash$288K
Investments$428K
Liabilities$13K
Net assets$1.02M
Liquid reserves19.4 mo
5 years on record · 2020–2024 · YoY revenue +127.6%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2024
Who runs it
board members · 7
- BRADLEY A CONNOR MD — PRESIDENT
- DAVIDSON H HAMER MD — SECRETARY/TREASURER
- MARK S RIDDLE MD — DIRECTOR
- MICHAEL RENDELMD — DIRECTOR
- PHYLLIS KOZARSKY MD — VICE PRESIDENT
- ROBERT STEFFEN MD — DIRECTOR
- STACI ARNOVITZ — DIRECTOR
relationships · 8
Who they work with
- Biotia Partner — Funded collaboration to sequence SARS-CoV-2 specimens and support global surveillance during the pandemic.
- GeoSentinel Partner — Primary network supported by the Foundation for global disease surveillance and research
- GeoSentinel Network Network — Core network used to track infectious diseases and support global health surveillance efforts
- GeoSentinel Research and Surveillance Network Partner — Primary network supported by the foundation in global health research and public health emergency response.
- International Society of Travel Medicine Partner — Co-creator of the GeoSentinel Network
- International Society of Travel Medicine Partner — Collaborates to fund early-career researchers through the ISTM Research Awards program.
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Government — Co-creator of the GeoSentinel Network
- VOCAT Partner — Collaborated with VOCAT to deliver support materials to Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine.
strategies · 2
How they approach the work
Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.
- AI-Enhanced Proactive Outbreak Detectionmethodology: proactive_outbreak_detectionBy expanding AI-driven surveillance capacity, the organization aims to detect and respond to emerging infectious diseases before large-scale outbreaks occur, because predictive analytics and enhanced research infrastructure improve early warning systems.
- Global Disease Surveillance Networkmethodology: global-disease-surveillance-networkBy leveraging a coordinated global network of health professionals and sites, the organization detects emerging infectious diseases and travel-related health threats early, because cross-border data sharing and real-time monitoring enable faster response to outbreaks and improved global health security.