Key points
This report includes all non-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-hosted scientific meetings held in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 where the expenses associated with the scientific meeting exceeded $30,000. The descriptions include date and location, how the meeting advanced the agency's agenda, and the total number of attendees.
About the report
In compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act, this report includes all Non-CDC-hosted scientific meetings held in FY 2024, where the expenses associated with the scientific meeting exceeded $30,000. The descriptions include:
- The date of the scientific meeting.
- The location of the scientific meeting.
- A brief explanation of how the scientific meeting advanced the mission of the agency.
- A description of exceptional circumstances for scientific meeting where expenses exceeded $150,000.
- The total scientific meeting expenses incurred by the agency for the scientific meeting.
- The total number of individuals whose travel expenses or other scientific meeting expenses were paid by the agency.
Center for Preparedness and Response
66th Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Conference (ABSA)
Dates: October 13-18, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Omaha, Nebraska
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Intensive professional development courses to educate and inspire. Three full days of state-of-the-art keynotes, papers, and panels highlighting best practices and hands-on skills crucial for today's biosafety and biosecurity professionals. In-person exhibits showcase the latest in laboratory biosafety and biosecurity products and services. Invaluable networking opportunities to share and learn from other biosafety and biosecurity professionals.
Total estimated cost: $46,445
Total attendees: 21
Total feds on travel: 21
Total non-feds on travel: 0
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Preparedness Summit
Dates: March 25-28, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Cleveland, Ohio
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This year's theme, "Public Health, Healthcare, and Emergency Management: Aligning to Address Cascading Challenges," will provide an opportunity for sectors to come together, align missions, and discover better ways to work as true partners to meet the challenges. Join the first and longest-running national conference on public health preparedness to share resources and strategies with colleagues across sectors. The Preparedness Summit is the place for you to reenergize while gaining the knowledge, resources, and relationships necessary to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies. Don't miss your chance to join more than 2,500 attendees—who work in all levels of the government (federal, state, and local), emergency management, volunteer organizations, healthcare coalitions, and academia—to share best practices, build partnerships, advance your skillset, and take away innovative solutions and practical strategies to address the vulnerabilities in our country's health security system.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: The NACCHO Summit has accepted a list of accepted abstracts that require presenters to attend in person leading to additional travel costs. Other attendees have requested in-person participation to network with other Scientists in the field.
Total estimated cost: $166,207
Total attendees: 87
Total feds on travel: 83
Total non-feds on travel: 4
Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2023 Annual Symposium
Dates: November 11-15, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: New Orleans, Louisiana
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The theme of the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium is Transforming Healthcare and Biomedicine for a Sustainable Future. Now, more than ever, healthcare and biomedicine face significant challenges in several areas, including staffing, knowledge translation, finances, and supply chain. Today's challenges underscore the need for innovations in the field of informatics that not only transform healthcare and biomedicine but do so sustainably. As agents of change and transformation, informaticians must ensure our work helps to bring about a more equitable and sustainable future.
The AMIA Annual Symposium is the world's premier meeting for the research and practice of biomedical and health informatics building on more than 45 years of sharing research and insights for leveraging health information and cutting-edge technologies to improve human health.
Total estimated cost: $34,544
Total attendees: 12
Total feds on travel: 11
Total non-feds on travel: 1
Global Health Center
The 1st Regional Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) Scientific Symposium Applied Epidemiology 2024
Dates: September 10-12, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Almaty, Kazakhstan
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This will be the first Regional Scientific Symposium for Applied Epidemiology to highlight the impact of the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) residents in the EECA region and strengthen cross border exchange of information. The conference will include all 10 FETP participating countries of the region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The symposium aims to highlight the impact of FETPs in the countries of the EECA region
Total estimated cost: $31,425
Total attendees: 5
Total feds on travel: 5
Total non-feds on travel: 0
3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CHPIA 2023)
Dates: November 27-30, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Lusaka, Zambia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The annual International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) provides a unique African-led platform for leaders across the continent to reflect on lessons learned in health and science and align on a way forward for creating more resilient health systems. Expanding the horizons of the conference once again, CPHIA 2023 will showcase how the continent is breaking down barriers, reaffirming Africa as a powerhouse in science and innovation, generator of new knowledge and health products, and exemplar of progress. As African countries accelerate the realization of a new public health order, this year's conference will help to build a healthier, more prosperous Africa – for the continent, and the world. The Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP) helps countries build robust, connected surveillance systems, and monitors the globe 24/7 for health threats of international importance. Attendance at this conference contributes immensely to the mission of DGHP and CDC.
Total estimated cost: $32,693
Total attendees: 14
Total feds on travel: 14
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Africa Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)
Dates: November 5-10, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Mombasa, Kenya
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The conference will offer a platform to showcase the scientifically grounded work of Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) residents and graduates, as well as other public health professionals who have chosen to share their achievements, research findings, field investigations, and other approaches within a wide participation base. More specifically, the conference will be achieving the following objectives: Engage public health experts and national, regional, and international entities in a discussion of public health challenges and their contribution to strengthening workforce and global health security.
Total estimated cost: $31,147
Total attendees: 8
Total feds on travel: 8
Total non-feds on travel: 0
African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM 2023)
Dates: December 12-15, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Cape Town, South Africa
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The ASLM 2023 is a unique event in Africa, offering the opportunity to learn the latest updates and to debate about hot topics concerning the science, practice and innovations in laboratory medicine, diagnostics, clinical science and public health in Africa. It is the perfect opportunity to share research, experiences and opinions with the medical laboratory community, clinical experts, and public health leaders from around the world. It will discuss challenges and opportunities facing laboratory medicine's evolving landscape. Debates will pave the way for a modernized approach to laboratory medicine in the 21st century by scrutinizing cutting-edge innovations and advancements that are molding its future.
Total estimated cost: $115,355
Total attendees: 28
Total feds on travel: 28
Total non-feds on travel: 0
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting (ASTMH)
Dates: October 18-22, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Chicago, Illinois
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The ASTMH Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of its kind, bringing together world-class experts from academia, government, non-profits, philanthropy, NGOs, industry, military, and private practice. The meeting is designed for researchers, professors, government and public health officials, military personnel, travel clinic physicians, practicing physicians in tropical medicine, students and all health care providers working in the fields of tropical medicine, hygiene, and global health. The goal is to advance scientific agendas by making humans and our planet healthier which in turn furthers CDC's mission of saving lives and protecting people from health threats.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: This non-CDC hosted conference exceeds $150,000 because of travel, Ground Transportation Expenses (GTE), per diem and registration costs for a large number of attendees. Participation in this annual conference is critical to multiple programs across the agency, but particularly to those engaged in the science of diseases found in, and carried from, tropical areas of the world.
Total estimated cost: $202,222
Total attendees: 84
Total feds on travel: 83
Total non-feds on travel: 1
Eighth Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network Regional Conference (EMPHNET)
Dates: September 15-18, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Amman, Jordan
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Eighth EMPHNET Regional Conference focuses on "Advancing Public Health Preparedness and Response: Challenges, Opportunities, and Ways Forward." The conference sessions provide a space to address challenges and identify opportunities to advance public health within the countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and beyond. The conference will offer a platform to showcase the scientifically grounded work of the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) residents and graduates, as well as other public health professionals who have chosen to share their achievements, research findings, field investigations, and other approaches within a wide participation base.
Total estimated cost: $48,481
Total attendees: 10
Total feds on travel: 10
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Global Health Security 2024 (GHS 2024)
Dates: June 18-21, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Sydney, Australia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Global Health Security 2024 (GHS 2024) is the third international conference on global health security. It will be the largest gathering of its kind following the formal end of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will bring together global health security practitioners, researchers, educators, representatives, and decision makers across the fields of public health, medicine, veterinary science, agriculture, government, defense, international relations, sociology, and anthropology to examine the progress made in strengthening health systems. It will also identify gaps and opportunities for enhancing the international community's ability to respond more efficiently and effectively to future adverse health crises. GHS 2024 presents an important opportunity for CDC to showcase its success, demonstrate its leadership in the advancement of global health security which is a CDC priority. The GHS 2024 provides CDC staff that work in GHS with an effective means to share their findings, influence scientific discourse and policy discussions, and review updates from others in the scientific and greater global health security community.
Total estimated cost: $146,177
Total attendees: 25
Total feds on travel: 25
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Health Informatics in Africa (HELINA) 2023
Dates: November 1-3, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Cape Town, South Africa
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Effective Implementation, Meaningful Use and Sustainability of Digital Health Interventions: The Role of Health Informatics and Imaging Informatics in Africa.
Globally, countries are working progressively to improve the health of their populations by working towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Digital Health Interventions have been touted as an enabler to achieving the SDG goal 3 which is to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all. HELINA 2023 will introduce a dedicated imaging informatics stream to provide opportunities to share research, learn, and collaborate on the role of imaging informatics in Africa.
Total estimated cost: $48,776
Total attendees: 13
Total feds on travel: 13
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Research and Public Health Priorities in the Middle Eastern and North Africa (MENA) Region: Pandemic and Future Preparedness Meeting
Dates: April 26-27, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The purpose of this meeting is to bring together federal partners, CDC, and NIH, along with regional health partners including Ministries of Health, Ministries of Agriculture, and external partners such as WHO to discuss lessons learned from the COVID 19 pandemic and discuss planning and joint priorities for future health threats. This conference was first envisioned in 2020, during the CDC solicitation process for CARES-Act funding proposals. It serves multiple purposes aligned with the agency's mission. First, it advances the collaboration and joint priorities between HHS agencies (CDC and NIH) invested in global health security and helping to improve public health capacities in the MENA region. Second, it provides an excellent way for CDC to provide visible leadership in bringing together a variety of partners from across a broad region, indicating commitment to the region and learning from countries on how we can best collaborate and jointly plan to address health threats. Lastly, it helps to fulfill one of the overarching goals of the regional office – which is to help build and enhance broad-based public health capacity throughout the region and thus be able to better respond to emerging health threats. The meeting provides an opportunity to share information, share lessons learned, identify priorities, network, identify opportunities for additional collaboration, etc.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: CDC will have the responsibility to provide travel for an estimated 20- 25 non-federal regional experts to this event. Consistent with applicable travel regulations and policies, travel covered by CDC is expected to include roundtrip airfare from home country to Dubai, UAE, any applicable visa fees, lodging for three nights, ground transfer from Dubai airport to lodging, ground transfer from lodging to Dubai airport, ground transfer from lodging to and from event (if the lodging is in a separate location than the host venue), and M&IE. This conference is critical to bring together key stakeholders from across the global to discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and how strategies could be improved for future public health emergencies in support of the global health security goals.
Total estimated cost: $246,846
Total attendees: 13
Total feds on travel: 13
Total non-feds on travel: 0
The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2023
Dates: November 15-18, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Paris, France
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) organizes an international conference every year to highlight innovation, expertise, solutions and support to address global tuberculosis (TB) prevention, control, and elimination. The Union World Conference on Lung Health is the primary/premier global/international TB meeting where important and relevant new developments and research findings regarding TB are presented, shared, and discussed with over 5,000 participants from all over the world. Every year, this conference brings together health care professionals, policymakers, clinicians, government officials, TB program directors, subject matter experts, researchers, community activists, students, and other prominent figures from both developed countries and developing countries (over 125 countries) to tackle issues related to TB, lung health, and other health areas that affect people living in poverty. CDC's participation to the conference directly supports GHC, NCHHSTP, and NCEZID's mission to prevent and control TB and to reduce TB rates in the US and abroad as it will allow CDC staff to interact and share/discuss with public health officials and global health partners recent important TB scientific findings.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: This non-CDC hosted conference exceeds $150,000 due to travel, GTE, per diem and registration costs for estimated large number of attendees. The Union World Conference on Lung Health is a critical scientific conference for the Global Health Center's tuberculosis branch and the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine in NCEZID, as well as to maintain subject matter expertise and sharing of scientific knowledge.
Total estimated cost: $151,655
Total attendees: 29
Total feds on travel: 29
Total non-feds on travel: 0
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I)
Dates: December 10-13, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Arlington, Virginia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The 16th Annual Conference will concentrate on capitalizing on CDC's methodological progress while also focusing attention on areas needing growth. There is tremendous opportunities to continue to advance the empirical and theoretical base for both experimental and observational research across the globe. Opportunities can include expanded work to learn from implementation practice, co-creation of high-priority studies, and application of trials testing strategies to support adoption, implementation, sustainment, scale-up, and/or de-implementation.
Total estimated cost: $43,200
Total attendees: 20
Total feds on travel: 14
Total non-feds on travel: 6
2024 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Summer Evaluation Institute
Dates: June 27-28, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Summer Evaluation Institute offers professional development workshops for evaluators, applied researchers, grant makers, foundation program officers, nonprofit administrators, and social science students. The 2024 Summer Evaluation Institute is taking place in Washington, DC and features two days of full-day and half-day workshops with interactive, classroom training for evaluators. Workshop presenters included: experts who have conducted evaluations in a variety of settings, nationally known authors, those working on the cutting edge, evaluation experts, and outstanding trainers. This event will bring together evaluators, evaluation scholars, students, and evaluation users to collaborate and expand their practice through education, knowledge-sharing, and networking.
Total estimated cost: $32,780
Total attendees: 16
Total feds on travel: 13
Total non-feds on travel: 3
2024 Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting (ACOG)
Dates: May 16-19, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: San Francisco, California
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This meeting will support the agency with the advancement of women's health care and the professional and socioeconomic interests of its members through continuing medical education, practice, research, and advocacy. ACOG clinical content is the indispensable decision support resource for women's health care providers, grounded in scientific evidence, and developed through a rigorous and inclusive process. This year's meeting focuses on Medical and Surgical Innovations in Health Care. Attendees will increase their knowledge and present their findings. Attendees will also meet with partners and stay abreast of perinatal work at CDC, promote recent developments, and increase knowledge in the subject areas of current and future potential projects, and allow networking opportunities to share their work outside CDC.
Total estimated cost: $38,767
Total attendees: 13
Total feds on travel: 13
Total non-feds on travel: 0
2024 Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs Annual Conference (AMCHP)
Dates: April 12-16, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Oakland, California
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This conference will support the mission of CDC by aiming to highlight the impact maternal and child health (MCH) programs are making at all levels for women, children, and families and to provide participants with tools and resources to develop, enhance, and sustain vital MCH programs and services. AMCHP Annual Conference also believe that collaboration is not just about joining forces, but coming together with intent, direction, and vision to make an impact for communities.
Total estimated cost: $60,000
Total attendees: 21
Total feds on travel: 21
Total non-feds on travel: 0
2024 CityMatCH Leadership & MCH Epidemiology Conference
Dates: September 9-11, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Seattle, Washington
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The 2024 CityMatCH Leadership and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Epidemiology Conference is a combined conference for the annual CityMatCH MCH Leadership conference and bi-annual MCH Epidemiology Conference. This conference provides MCH professionals with a platform to share experiences, enhance knowledge, and generate new ideas for promoting and improving the health of women, children, and families. It serves several important functions for CDC and for CityMatCH, including skill-building, knowledge growth, and the development of collaboration and partnerships at the state, local, and tribal levels. The combined conference includes sessions that encompass program, policy, science, and epidemiology issues that are relevant to the MCH field. This conference is co-hosted by the Division of Reproductive Health's Maternal and Child Health Program (MCHEP) Team.
Total estimated cost: $74,906
Total attendees: 40
Total feds on travel: 31
Total non-feds on travel: 9
2024 National Oral Health Conference (NOHC)
Dates: April 13-17, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: St. Louis, Missouri
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This meeting is to support the agency for programmatic, policy, and surveillance related to oral health at the state and local level. This conference is considered as "the premier meeting" for those interested in continuing education and networking opportunities within the discipline of dental public health. NOHC connects oral health advocates and professionals to share best approached and improve oral health everywhere.
Total estimated cost: $47,896
Total attendees: 18
Total feds on travel: 18
Total non-feds on travel: 0
2024 North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)- Boise 2024
Dates: June 25-27, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Boise, Idaho
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: NAACCR is a professional organization that develops and promotes data standards for cancer registration; provides education and training, certifies population-based registries, and publishes data from central cancer registries. The Cancer Data Registry of Idaho (CRDI) welcomes NAACCR to Boise, ID to participate in this year's theme "Discovering Gems Using Cancer Surveillance Data."
Total estimated cost: $49,143
Total attendees: 21
Total feds on travel: 15
Total non-feds on travel: 6
2024 Society for Epidemiologic Research Meeting (SER)
Dates: June 18-22, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Austin, Texas
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Research mission of promoting epidemiologic research and nurturing junior scholars. The Society of Epidemiologic Research (SER) Meeting typically brings together 900 to 100 attendees and consist of presentations of ongoing research, a keynote address on a topic of current interest, and instructional workshops. This will advance the mission of the agency because it will provide an annual meeting where junior faculty in epidemiology departments and graduate students could present their ongoing research to senior epidemiologists and receive criticism, comments, and encouragement. The SER Annual Meeting goal is to promote the exchange of ideas between epidemiologists and statisticians.
Total estimated cost: $74,066
Total attendees: 40
Total feds on travel: 29
Total non-feds on travel: 11
The 6th Micronutrient Forum Global Conference: Nutrition for Resilience (N4R)
Dates: October 16-21, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: The Hague, Netherlands
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The 2023, 6th Micronutrient Forum Global Conference: Nutrition for Resilience (N4R), will provide over 1000 researchers, program implementers and policymakers from around the world to present on, and discuss micronutrient security in an era of complex global challenges, including climate changes, and how micronutrients might be optimized and protected within food systems. The conference will provide the opportunity for sharing new micronutrient research with a diverse audience, across four focused tracks: (1) micronutrient biology and status assessment, (2) efficacy and safety of micronutrient interventions, (3) program implementation and effectiveness, and (4) designing enabling environments for micronutrients.
CDC will be presenting at 3 symposiums:
Symposium A: CDC developed the sponsored symposium agenda and identified speakers for the session focused on ferritin thresholds to identify iron deficiency.
Symposium B: For this symposium disseminating the Burkina Faso 2020 NMS results, CDC and CDC Foundation developed the agenda and identified speakers for the session.
Symposium C: For this symposium "Accelerating anemia reduction: the WHO comprehensive framework for action and the Anaemia Action Alliance," the WHO, CDC, and MNF developed the agenda and identified speakers for the session. CDC staff will moderate this symposium.
Total estimated cost: $67,656
Total attendees: 10
Total feds on travel: 8
Total non-feds on travel: 2
Academy Health-2024 Annual Research meeting (ARM)
Dates: June 29-July 2, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Baltimore, Maryland
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Academy Health Annual Research Meeting (ARM) is the gathering place for thousands of individuals leading the charge to transform delivery systems and health care in a rapidly changing landscape. As the premier forum for health services research (HSR) and Academy Health's most popular meeting, the ARM is a place for connection, recognition, reflection, learning, and professional networking opportunities.
Total estimated cost: $74,232
Total attendees: 35
Total feds on travel: 31
Total non-feds on travel: 4
AHA Scientific Sessions 2023-American Heart Association
Dates: November 11-13, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This conference focuses on global education, with the aim of improving cardiovascular health. Other topics include advocating scientific discovery and clinical practice. The conference convenes a wide array of public health professionals to present new research findings, share tools and resources, and provide a variety of opportunities for attendees to learn how to implement model practices that enhance the nation's capabilities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and emergencies.
Total estimated cost: $32,124
Total attendees: 12
Total feds on travel: 12
Total non-feds on travel: 0
American Diabetes Association 84th Scientific Sessions Conference (ADA)
Dates: June 21-24, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Orlando, Florida
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This conference supports the agency with partnership agreement and provides a forum for our scientist to present recent research findings as well as participate in several working meetings. This meeting is an opportunity for scientists to communicate work done at CDC to the national and international research community. The NCCDPHP and CDC have established a unique partnership with the ADA designed to advance research in the prevention of diabetes and related disorders. This is directly related to the Department of Health and Human Services' mission and goals in addressing obesity, cardiovascular, kidney and eyes disease prevention and our HEALTHY PEOPLE 2023 objective.
Total estimated cost: $66,000
Total attendees: 22
Total feds on travel: 22
Total non-feds on travel: 0
American Public Health Association (APHA) 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo
Dates: November 12-15, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Atlanta, Georgia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The purpose for attending this conference is for CDC/ATSDR scientific, health and technical professionals to attend the largest working meeting of public health professionals in the nation with participants from state and local health departments, tribal organizations, private and community-based institutions-Most of the participants are presenting scientific papers and findings, conducting panel discussions, and coordinating exhibits-This conference will give unparalleled opportunities to learn from the latest research and practice, conduct hands-on assessments of the latest tools and services, network with industry experts and colleagues, and expand professional horizons. Some attendees will choose from hundreds of educational sessions- Top thought leaders will discuss industry trends, emerging issues and proven methods. Attendees will benefit from the goals of the conference which are to (1) provide skill-based training in public health; (2) serve as a learning, networking, and renewal experience for advocates, educators, and scientists in the U.S. on public health; and (3) attract new participants to fight to improve public health.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: This is one of the largest gatherings of public health officials. Attendees will benefit for the goals of the conference to provide skill-based training in public health. This conference will serve as a learning, networking, and renewal experience for advocates, educators, and scientists in the U.S. and attract new students' registrants to public health.
Total estimated cost: $439,656
Total attendees: 431
Total feds on travel: 372
Total non-feds on travel: 59
Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting
Dates: November 8-12, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Tampa, Florida
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The GSA Annual Scientific Meeting offers numerous opportunities for career development and networking. Nearly 4,000 researchers, clinicians, educators, and other professionals in the aging field will gather in Tampa to learn about and discuss the latest trends, research, and key issues.
Total estimated cost: $34,691
Total attendees: 17
Total feds on travel: 14
Total non-feds on travel: 3
Society of Prevention Research (SPR) 32nd Annual Meeting
Dates: May 28-31, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Society for Prevention Research envisions a wellness-oriented society in which evidenced-based programs and policies are continuously applied to improve the health and well-being of its citizens, fostering positive human development and citizens who lead productive lives in caring relationships with others. The SPR Annual Meeting provides a unique opportunity to advance this vision by providing a centrally integrated forum for the exchange of new concepts, methods, and results from prevention research and related public health fields; and by providing a forum for the communication between scientists, public policy leaders and practitioners concerning the implementation of evidence-based preventive interventions in all areas of public health.
Total estimated cost: $32,005
Total attendees: 16
Total feds on travel: 13
Total non-feds on travel: 3
National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
36th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
Dates: August 25-28, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Santiago, Chile
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The main theme of the conference is "Addressing Challenges in Environmental Health, Justice, and Development." The conference will address how the scientific community faces current health, environmental justice, and epidemiological challenges, including empirical evidence, methodological approaches, and ethical and theoretical developments. Attendees will have the opportunity to progress the CDC mission by communicating with experts in the field of environmental epidemiology on assessing exposure to toxic chemicals in susceptible populations to better understand and respond to the complex and multidisciplinary issues in exposure and environmental health in environmental epidemiology studies.
Total estimated cost: $67,483
Total attendees: 19
Total feds on travel: 19
Total non-feds on travel: 0
49th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop
Dates: July 14-17, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Broomfield, Colorado
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The 2024 Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop is a workshop of disaster subject matter experts (SMEs) to share their knowledge and findings in the field. This year's theme, "The Stories We Tell: Creative Strategies for Understanding and Communicating Disaster Risk" is important to help save lives during a disaster response. Since disasters occur worldwide, people are looking for information to help them understand these crises, find solutions, and prepare themselves. The workshop provides an opportunity for CDC SMEs to share knowledge with STLT, academic, and federal partners. It will allow CDC subject matter experts (SMEs) the opportunity to keep abreast of activities related to disasters and further improve our mission of saving lives.
Total estimated cost: $38,214
Total attendees: 16
Total feds on travel: 16
Total non-feds on travel: 0
72nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
Dates: June 2-6, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Anaheim, California
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Annual Conference is attended by more than 6,500 international scientists from academic, industrial, and governmental laboratories. Over 3,000 papers are presented as posters and talks at the ASMS annual conference. The ASMS conference purpose is to promote and disseminate knowledge of mass spectrometry and allied topics. Mass spectrometry is a family of techniques that allows for chemical analysis of complex compounds and identification of chemicals within biological samples. Interests include advancement of techniques and instrumentation in mass spectrometry, as well as fundamental research in chemistry, geology, forensics, biological sciences, and physics. ASMS is a highly regarded conference attended by over 6,000 scientists and is the largest conference in its field with hundreds of different posters presented daily as well as several parallel oral sessions. This is conference used by most mass spectrometry vendors to introduce new mass spectrometers and introduce associated innovation. Attendance at this face-to-face meeting will allow members of the Division of Laboratory Sciences to engage with the entire mass spectrometry community.
Total estimated cost: $41,756
Total attendees: 16
Total feds on travel: 16
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Joint APHL/ISNS 2023 Newborn Screening Symposium
Dates: October 15-19, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Sacramento, California
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: NSMBB has been charged by the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act Reauthorization to provide, among other things, "technical assistance" and "technology transfer" to "newborn screening laboratories to ensure analytic validity and utility of screening tests".
This newborn screening symposium is the single, most important opportunity for NSMBB each year to inform the entire domestic newborn screening community about (1) CDC's innovative laboratory method improvements that will improve their testing workflows, (2) new reference materials that we have developed for various newborn screening conditions that are available for their use to assure accuracy in newborn testing, (3) our investigations that address testing challenges such as unexplained variations in their biomarker levels that may be impacted by environmental factors, (4) new opportunities for training that will allow them to make improvements in laboratory practice and competencies for new and emerging biochemical and molecular testing platforms. Attendance at this meeting will also allow NSMBB to discuss innovations being made on the ED3N (Enhancing Data-driven Disease Detection in Newborns) Data Modernization Initiative Project, that is being created to improve newborn screening result interpretation in state programs using enhanced data interoperability, data processing, analytics, and visualization techniques. In addition, as in previous symposiums, NSMBB will host an exhibit table to answer questions and get feedback from all State Public Health newborn screening programs.
Attendance at the meeting will allow NSMBB to engage with the entire state newborn screening domestic community and will also us to engage in technology transfer. It will also allow NSMBB to engage in transparent one-on-one interactions that will provide CDC with frank feedback about needed opportunities to provide future technical assistance to state programs.
Total estimated cost: $49,797
Total attendees: 26
Total feds on travel: 24
Total non-feds on travel: 2
Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Lab 2024 14th Annual Conference & Exhibits (MSACL)
Dates: March 19-22, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Monterey, California
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The MSACL Conference provides a forum for discussion of developments in the clinical application of mass spectrometry. While immunoassay methods have dominated clinical analyses, mass spectrometric methods are now providing analytical results more rapidly and with less expense. MSACL brings together experts in the field with those driven to explore and understand clinical mass spectrometry, to facilitate mass spectrometry's adoption as a healthcare tool and accelerate the realization of improved patient care and reduced healthcare cost. MSACL is focused on providing a forum of interaction for participants in all stages of development, advancement, and use of analytical tools in the lab. CDC uses mass spectrometry in the lab and is always looking for ways to improve our ability to process samples and to get the data into the public arena faster and with better accuracy.
Total estimated cost: $30,747
Total attendees: 9
Total feds on travel: 9
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Posit::conf (2024)
Dates: August 12-14, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Seattle, Washington
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Posit::conf (2024) will be a 3-day data science conference. The focus of this conference is to "bring together ideas, technologies, and people" around the concept of data science. The conference encompasses a breadth of discussions aimed at harnessing the power of data for decision making. This conference aligns with CDC Moving Forward initiative including the goal of "building world-class data and analytics". Some of the topics of this conference include the followings: Use of R and Python for exploratory data analyses, of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for advanced data analyses, and the use of R Shiny to develop dashboards, web application and advanced analytical tools. CDC have made great investments in data modernization including the Enterprise Data Analytics and Visualization (EDAV) platform that host various Posit products.
Total estimated cost: $57,633
Total attendees: 18
Total feds on travel: 15
Total non-feds on travel: 3
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
2024 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Conference
Dates: June 3-5, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: San Antonio, Texas
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Each year thousands of healthcare professionals from around the world gather for three days to advance their network and learn about evidence-based advances in infection prevention. The APIC 2024 will share latest research and science and to discover real-world solutions to challenging infection prevention issues. APIC's Annual Conference is the premier forum for infection prevention and epidemiology professionals.
The conference features three days of 90+ cutting-edge educational sessions and workshops, plus pre-conference workshops from leading clinical, industry, and public health experts. You can also earn valuable continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hours.
Stay ahead of industry hot topics and discuss how to prevent problems before they become unmanageable, you will find plenaries, sessions, workshops, and abstract presentations on critical issues like multidrug-resistant organisms, public reporting and NHSN, and safe injection practices.
Total estimated cost: $49,227
Total attendees: 21
Total feds on travel: 20
Total non-feds on travel: 1
2024 North American Refugee Health Conference (NARHC)
Dates: August 5-7, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Minneapolis, Minnesota
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Network with refugee health experts regarding collaborations to benefit populations served by the Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health (IRMH), offer expertise in refugee health and EDN, and learn about the state of public health and health system challenges related to refugee migration at the local level in the United States and in countries of asylum around the world. Attending this conference will allow an opportunity to learn more about global refugee health programs and to collaborate with other refugee health partners on issues involving refugee, immigrant, and migrant populations. Attending the conference would not only strengthen CDC's relationship with our refugee health partners but also create opportunities for new collaborations to achieve the goals of the IRMH branch and CDC.
Total estimated cost: $41,606
Total attendees: 17
Total feds on travel: 17
Total non-feds on travel: 0
34th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ECCMID) 2024
Dates: April 27-30, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Barcelona, Spain
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: ECCMID has become one of the largest and the foremost congresses in the field of infection. It brings together over 16,000 colleagues from all over the world for scientific education, networking, and exchange. The comprehensive scientific programme is built by the ECCMID Programme Committee (EPC), an independent group of experts representing all disciplines related to clinical microbiology, infectious diseases, infection prevention and control and public health. This ensures that the programme is a combination that spans the entire range of topics in these fields, allowing every participant to have a comprehensive educational and networking experience.
Total estimated cost: $60,750
Total attendees: 15
Total feds on travel: 15
Total non-feds on travel: 0
8th World One Health Conference (WOHC)
Dates: September 20-23, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Cape Town, South Africa
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The World One Health Congresses aim at connecting the dots between One Health science and policy, while promoting a cross-sectoral and collaborative approach to improve the health and well-being of humans, animals, and their environments. This global event serves as a platform for experts, researchers, and professionals from diverse disciplines to converge and exchange knowledge on critical topics related to health.
Total estimated cost: $54,616
Total attendees: 9
Total feds on travel: 9
Total non-feds on travel: 0
American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition (AAP NCE)
Dates: October 20-24, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: AAP NCE is the largest and most comprehensive pediatric meeting in the world. This meeting provides important updates and discussions on pediatric clinical medicine and public health. The meeting also links the physician community at the national, state, and local levels to activities that support the health and development of children. Building upon partnerships can enhance engagement in ongoing projects, increase awareness of the issues being addressed and establish a framework for the continued support of services that support child health in federal, state, and local communities. The conference is useful to stay current on medical knowledge for responding to inquiries and clinical work as part of CDC duties. It also allows for helpful networking and status updates in the fields of pandemic response, preparedness, infectious diseases, child development, nutrition, and much more.
Total estimated cost: $73,608
Total attendees: 21
Total feds on travel: 21
Total non-feds on travel: 0
American Mosquito Control Association's 90th Annual meeting AMCA
Dates: March 4-8, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Dallas, Texas
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The AMCA Annual Meeting is the premier education and networking event for researchers, educators, vector control professionals, industry representatives, and students in mosquito control. Every year since 1938, hundreds gather to hear the latest research, share ideas, and form collaborations. Our educational sessions and exhibit hall help to put attendees on the cutting-edge of this ever-expanding field.
Total estimated cost: $39,545
Total attendees: 19
Total feds on travel: 17
Total non-feds on travel: 2
American Society for Microbiology ASM MICROBE 2024
Dates: June 13-17, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Atlanta, Georgia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: ASM Microbe drives discovery, innovation, and collaboration across the full spectrum of microbiology. The event allows participants to explore science in a focused specialty or delve into other disciplines; build a customized experience through interactive learning formats; and be part of the community making an impact on the intersections of science, industry, and policy.
Total estimated cost: $72,080
Total attendees: 83
Total feds on travel: 64
Total non-feds on travel: 19
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Conference 2024
Dates: June 21-25, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Austin, Texas
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Animal Vaccines and Human Public Health: Challenges and New horizons
Networking Opportunities: The AVMA Conference brings together veterinary professionals from around the country, including renowned experts, researchers, and practitioners. Participating in this conference offers the opportunity to network with industry leaders, exchange ideas, and establish valuable connections that can contribute to CDC's growth and success. The AVMA Conference offers a diverse range of educational sessions, workshops, and presentations covering various topics relevant to veterinary medicine. These sessions help attendees stay up to date with the latest advancements in veterinary practices, gain new insights into emerging trends, and acquire knowledge that can enhance skills and expertise. This knowledge transfer will directly benefit CDC by ensuring we remain at the forefront of industry developments.
Total estimated cost: $39,168
Total attendees: 19
Total feds on travel: 18
Total non-feds on travel: 1
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2024 Quality Conference
Dates: April 8-10, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Baltimore, Maryland
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Quality Conference is organized and sponsored by HHS and CMS. This is an annual meeting that brings together CMS-funded partners, federal agency representatives and other stakeholders to share strategies and organize activities that advance patient safety efforts. The meeting goals are consistent with CDC's mission to protect America from domestic health threats, including healthcare-associated infections.
Total estimated cost: $36,937
Total attendees: 50
Total feds on travel: 42
Total non-feds on travel: 8
Epidemics9: 9th International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics (Epidemics)
Dates: November 28-December 1, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Bologna, Italy
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This meeting holds global significance as the foremost gathering for infectious disease modeling. It is critical for sharing and learning about the latest advancements in epidemic modeling and forecasting. Analytic approaches to generate public health evidence are critical to CDC's mission. This meeting allows CDC scientists to engage with the top scientists in the field of epidemiological modeling and ensure that CDC is at the forefront of modeling science.
Total estimated cost: $31,120
Total attendees: 7
Total feds on travel: 4
Total non-feds on travel: 3
ID WEEK 2023
Dates: October 11-15, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Boston, Massachusetts
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: IDWeek is the joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP).
IDWeek is a forum for health professionals of varied backgrounds to collaborate, cooperate, and learn from each other's expertise. IDWeek offers a valuable platform for professionals across the four disciplines to address common issues and challenges. It provides an opportunity to share knowledge, experience and expertise, for the improvement of patient care and public health-This is an inclusive meeting that offers access to internationally recognized leaders in the field and the opportunity to network with the most highly respected health professionals in infectious diseases, including HIV.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: IDWeek is dual focus on infectious disease research and treatment making it of special interest to CDC-CDC participants provide CDC's public health perspectives in the form of abstracts, posters and presentations highlighting the agency's latest findings in epidemiology, surveillance, and prevention of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Additionally, convening with multiple CDC funded partners to review and plan activities. Convening with multiple organizations (i.e., academic centers, professional associations, etc.) to develop relationships, explore and exchange ideas, and review and plan activities.
Total estimated cost: $443,318
Total attendees: 145
Total feds on travel: 138
Total non-feds on travel: 7
Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) 2024
Dates: January 22-24, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) Conference will bring together the network of public health officials involved with foodborne and enteric disease outbreak response. This includes federal, state, and local public health environmental health specialists, epidemiologists, laboratory scientists, and health communicators. Discussions include surveillance of enteric diseases and outbreak detection and response and laboratory-based discussions involving whole genome sequencing (WGS) and PulseNet 2.0. The conference will consist of a keynote speaker, plenary talks, and discipline-specific sessions over the course of the meeting. Trainings and networking sessions will capitalize the face-to-face time among the national network of enteric disease experts. The InFORM conference celebrates this robust network of public health officials that are connected by cause, driven by data, and empowered by collaboration.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management Conference is supported by the CDC as part of the financial assistance cooperative agreement award OT18-1802 totaling $175,000 (or 100% of the award). This conference is in line with several CDC priorities, including: sharing scientific findings and data faster; promote results-based partnerships; enhance laboratory science and quality; and readiness and response. This is a critical meeting for foodborne disease prevention and control in the U.S., promoted by NACCHO, APHL, NEHA, FDA, USDA, STLTs, and others. The 2024 conference will be the first in-person InFORM held since 2017 due to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Total estimated cost: $155,857
Total attendees: 114
Total feds on travel: 104
Total non-feds on travel: 10
International Association for Food Protection IAFP 2024
Dates: July 14-17, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Long Beach, California
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Each year, the International Association for Food Protection hosts an annual meeting. This meeting provides attendees with information on current and emerging food safety issues, the latest science, innovative solutions to new and recurring problems, and the opportunity to network with thousands of food safety professionals from around the globe. Held in various locations throughout North America, this meeting has grown over the years to become the leading food safety conference worldwide.
The IAFP Annual Meeting is attended by more than 3,800 of the top industry, academic and governmental food safety professionals from six continents. This renowned event owes its reputation and success to the quantity, quality, and diversity of each year's program; the quality and relevance of exhibits share the latest in available technologies, leading experts speak on a variety of timely topics, and the program highlights special recognition of outstanding professionals and students for their contributions in the food safety field.
Total estimated cost: $74,844
Total attendees: 26
Total feds on travel: 24
Total non-feds on travel: 2
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM)-8th Pan-African Malaria Conference (PAMC)
Dates: April 21-27, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Kigali, Rwanda
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Society, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH)- Rwanda, and the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), is hosting the 8th Pan-African Malaria Conference. The conference aims to bring together leading researchers, policy makers, and innovators to deliberate on the status of malaria in Africa, share research findings, and discuss the challenges and efforts of controlling malaria in the continent. The conference will provide a platform to share perspectives that strengthen efforts towards locally driven research and development (R&D) and grassroots mobilization to end malaria through innovations, collaborations, and synergy among stakeholders. Attendees will participate in scientific sessions that address technical advances in malaria control implementation, monitoring, and evaluation in African countries. This meeting convenes malaria control experts from all African countries, including the 24 focus countries included within the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI). This unique scientific session only occurs every 5 years, so it is essential to have PMI team representation participate.
Total estimated cost: $43,969
Total attendees: 9
Total feds on travel: 9
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference (SHEA) 2024
Dates: April 16-19, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Houston, Texas
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Conference is the largest scientific meeting in the country devoted exclusively to healthcare epidemiology. The main topics of discussion in the meeting includes healthcare associated infections and antibiotic stewardship. These areas are of the upmost importance to the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion and are top priority for CDC. The 2024 Spring Conference will be held in person, in Houston, Texas and will feature topics on healthcare epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship, long-term care, research methods, clinical microbiology, patient safety and quality, implementation science, and COVID-19. It also provides a wide range of opportunities for networking with peers and experts in the field.
Highlights:
The conference will showcase innovative topics on unanswered issues in healthcare epidemiology and antibiotic stewardship.
It will feature focused scientific abstracts related to healthcare epidemiology, surveillance, implementation science, patient safety, and prevention strategies.
There will be poster and oral abstract awards for diverse professional fields related to healthcare epidemiology for all career levels.
Total estimated cost: $69,912
Total attendees: 44
Total feds on travel: 41
Total non-feds on travel: 3
University of North Carolina (UNC) Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy & Practice 2023
Dates: October 23-27, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The annual UNC Water and Health Conference reflects the Water Institute's commitment to improving public health by achieving universal access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) services that are safe, affordable and sustainable. The conference provides a curated space where policymakers, practitioners and researchers can gather to review the evidence, interrogate the science and improve old and develop new approaches to expanding WaSH access and services.
Total estimated cost: $40,868
Total attendees: 17
Total feds on travel: 17
Total non-feds on travel: 0
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
Dates: March 3-6, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Denver, Colorado
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is a scientifically focused meeting of the world's leading researchers working to understand, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS and its complications. CROI is one of the leading biomedical conferences on HIV in the world, and particularly for the United States. The participants are select leading researchers and clinicians working in laboratory and clinical research as well as epidemiology and surveillance. Topic areas of specific interest to CROI participants and presenters include studies of antiretroviral therapy, complications of HIV infection, AIDS-related malignancies, pediatrics/adolescents, mother to child transmission, HIV in women/women's health, HIV clinical diagnostics, epidemiology of HIV infection, hepatitis viruses, SARS-CoV-2, monkeypox, and prevention studies. CDC researchers are among the leading scientists in these areas and CDC benefits greatly from the opportunity for them to present and discuss their work in this scientifically focused forum. At recent conferences, ground-breaking data have been presented on pre-exposure prophylaxis, HIV diagnostics (including home HIV testing), methods for and findings from HIV surveillance. In addition, CROI provides a forum for up-to-date information on emerging prevention strategies such as vaccines and other biomedical interventions.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: The scale of this conference allows CDC employees to reach the largest possible group of professionals working to eradicate HIV in the U.S. CDC employees can provide instruction to local providers, meet with grantees to discuss project progress, learn lessons from the field, and build networks that will ultimately strengthen CDC's domestic HIV portfolio of programs. CDC also has many presentations at this event.
Total estimated cost: $183,204
Total attendees: 62
Total feds on travel: 59
Total non-feds on travel: 3
2024 STI Prevention Conference: Strengthening Sexual Health Through STI Prevention
Dates: September 16-19, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Atlanta, Georgia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The purpose of the 2024 STI Prevention Conference is for attendees to gain insights into the latest developments in STI prevention and treatment. Cutting-edge sessions on science, program, and policy help CDC attain its goals of reducing STIs by increasing STI prevention awareness and public policy. The conference brought together internationally recognized leading researchers with government experts, clinical STD care providers, and state and local public health administrators. The conference has been held in-person for the first time since 2018. It provides a forum to present information to public health professionals from a variety of disciplines. This conference occurs every two years and affords its employees opportunities for networking with state and local STD prevention partners and continuing professional development.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: Attendee participation will be in-person only. In the past it was held online-This is the primary reason the event exceeds $150,000.
Total estimated cost: $199,278
Total attendees: 134
Total feds on travel: 129
Total non-feds on travel: 5
2024 Tuberculosis Conference
Dates: April 16-19, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Baltimore, Maryland
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The combined 2024 National TB Conference (NTC) and North American Region Union conference (NAR) allowed CDC staff to meet and connect with others to advance CDC's knowledge of new tuberculosis research findings, current programmatic activities within the United States. This opportunity assists with the goal of working to eliminate TB. Conference presentations address all aspects of tuberculosis prevention and care, including epidemiological, clinical, basic science, nursing, social, behavioral, psychosocial, and educational studies. They also cover outcomes of program initiatives to address issues like health equity/health disparities and the programmatic response to the recent influx of immigrants into North America. Attendees cultivate required external partnerships, as well as collaborate with CDC partners across federal agencies.
Total estimated cost: $55,483
Total attendees: 28
Total feds on travel: 28
Total non-feds on travel: 0
2024 United States Conference on HIV/AIDS (USCHA)
Dates: September 12-15, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: New Orleans, Louisiana
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Similar to last year's focus on Puerto Rico and Latinx populations, the organizer leaned into this year's theme "A Love Letter to Black Women" to celebrate and honor Black women (cis and trans). The conference highlights Black women across movements, from activists to women living with HIV, national advocates, community voices, federal leaders, health department staff, healthcare workers, researchers, and women-focused organizations. The opening plenary will tell their stories and acknowledge their contributions. Their experiences were highlighted in workshops, institutes, posters, and special events. There was a section of the exhibit hall for small businesses owned and operated by Black women- The conference featured over 120 institutes, workshops and posters addressing issues in biomedical HIV prevention, aging, service delivery and telehealth, stigma, and the next steps in Ending the Epidemic. USCHA remains the conference to attend to experience the widest range of HIV-related topics, the most diverse attendees, the best exhibit hall, and most unique plenary sessions.
Total estimated cost: $63,621
Total attendees: 40
Total feds on travel: 39
Total non-feds on travel: 1
STI Engage 2024: Shaping the Nation's Health
Dates: June 2-5, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: STI Engage 2024: Shaping the Nation's Health is a conference for sexual health professionals that was organized by the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), a non-profit organization that represents state, local, and territorial health departments. The conference featured nearly 200 presenters and over 40 sessions. It provided an opportunity for STI professionals to learn from national leaders, connect with peers, and gain insights on the state of STIs. Engage provides an important opportunity for CDCs Division of STD Prevention staff to develop and improve relationships with STD surveillance staff in state/local/tribal/territorial health departments. These relationships are essential to CDC's ongoing work to improve STD surveillance through partnerships and collaborations nationwide.
Total estimated cost: $66,459
Total attendees: 16
Total feds on travel: 16
Total non-feds on travel: 0
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
8th ReSViNET Conference RSVVW-Conference on Novel RSV Preventive and Therapeutic Interventions
Dates: February 13-16, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Mumbai, India
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The aim of the conference is to learn and share knowledge on current research and to connect worldwide leading researchers, scientists, physicians, industry, academic scientists, scholars, decision-makers, and representatives from regulatory, global health, and governmental organizations. This meeting will serve as a great forum to discuss opportunities for future international collaborations and achievements in the RSV field.
Total estimated cost: $70,904
Total attendees: 17
Total feds on travel: 16
Total non-feds on travel: 1
2024 National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit (NAIIS)
Dates: August 15-16, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Atlanta, Georgia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit (NAIIS) is dedicated to addressing and resolving adult and influenza immunization issues and improving the use of vaccines recommended by CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The NAIIS consists of over 700 partners, representing more than 130 public and private organizations. Summit participants include a wide range of professionals from the healthcare industry, public health and private medical sectors, vaccine manufacturers and distributors, consumers, and others interested in preventing illness, disability, and deaths using recommended vaccines. Broad-based input regarding NAIIS meetings is conducted through the members of the Summit Organizing Committee (SOC). The SOC consists of three leads: the CDC, the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP), HHS, Immunize.org, as well as 14 additional collaborating organizations.
Total estimated cost: $46,796
Total attendees: 114
Total feds on travel: 114
Total non-feds on travel: 0
New Vaccine Surveillance Network Annual Meeting (NVSN)
Dates: July 23-25, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This event allows CDC and cooperative agreement grant recipients to meet to review and discuss progress towards goals and objectives outlined under our 5-year cooperative agreement. During this meeting CDC can provide technical assistance to sites and conduct sessions with grantees under the US Enhanced Surveillance Network to Assess Burden, Natural History, and Effectiveness of Vaccines to Prevent Enteric and Respiratory Viruses in Children.
Total estimated cost: $48,595
Total attendees: 33
Total feds on travel: 28
Total non-feds on travel: 5
OPTIONS XII for the Control of Influenza
Dates: September 29-October 2, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Brisbane, Australia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: Options for the Control of Influenza is the largest conference exclusively devoted to influenza and the premier setting for exchanging information on a broad range influenza-related topics in international and multidisciplinary collaboration on all aspects of influenza prevention, control, and research. It includes presentations on influenza prevention, control and treatment, seasonal influenza, pandemic preparedness, advances in the basic science, control, and prevention, and domains related to virology, veterinary medicine, human medicine, and public health policy. Given that Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 are both respiratory diseases that have caused pandemics, it is important to share lessons learned, cutting-edge scientific innovations, and ways to adapt influenza activities to build upon the gains established due to COVID-19. To facilitate these interactions, Options presentations and session topics are designed to maximize the opportunities for informal discussions and exchange of ideas between participants from academia, government agencies, and industry. It is critical that CDC exchange information in many of the scientific categories, but in particular pathogenesis, transmission, virus-host cell interactions, zoonotic influenza, novel treatment and prevention strategies, universal vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics, non-pharmaceutical interventions, pan-coronavirus vaccines, genomics, vaccine effectiveness, respiratory disease surveillance, modeling and forecasting, burden of disease for influenza and dual epidemics, and pandemic preparedness to name just a few.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: Given that Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 are both respiratory diseases that have caused pandemics, it will be important to share lessons learned, cutting-edge scientific innovations, and ways to adapt influenza activities to build upon the gains established due to COVID-19. To facilitate these interactions, Options presentations and session topics are designed to maximize the opportunities for informal discussions and exchange of ideas between participants from academia, government agencies, and industry. As in previous Options meetings, CDC will be contributing significantly to the conference through chairs of sessions, pre-meetings, oral and poster presentations, and discussions.
Total estimated cost: $200,546
Total attendees: 40
Total feds on travel: 40
Total non-feds on travel: 0
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion
Dates: September 2-5, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: New Delhi, India
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This is a highly profiled event in which CDC has been very involved in for numerous years. Specifically, in disseminating injury prevention information and sharing of statistical data as it relates to violence prevention, drug overdoses, and injuries resulting from motor vehicle accidents.
Total estimated cost: $34,215
Total attendees: 7
Total feds on travel: 7
Total non-feds on travel: 0
2023 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms
Dates: November 1-3, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Chicago, Illinois
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The 2023 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms will highlight the current state of science and research on firearm injury prevention across the lifespan. Organized by The Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms. CDC subject matter experts will speak on topics such as: emergency medical services encounters for firearm injuries – unintentional firearm injury deaths among U.S. children, and firearm homicides of U.S. children and the role of intimate partner violence.
Total estimated cost: $57,285
Total attendees: 30
Total feds on travel: 30
Total non-feds on travel: 0
2024 Rx and Illicit Drug Summit
Dates: April 1-4, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Atlanta, Georgia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: National Center for Injury Prevention Control (NCIPC), Division of Overdose Prevention, are on the forefront of prevention efforts to address this epidemic. It is critical to attend the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit to gain knowledge to advance research, monitor trends, increase public awareness, and to represent CDC's current work on and priorities for prescription drug overdose prevention and dissemination efforts. CDC representation will facilitate continued partnerships with public safety and community organizations on the state, tribal, local, and territorial capacity.
The Rx and Illicit Drug Summit - formerly the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit - is the largest national collaboration of professionals from local, state, federal agencies, business, academia, treatment providers, and allied communities impacted by prescription drug misuse and illicit drug use. It is the event for decision-makers and allied professionals working to address this public health emergency.
Total estimated cost: $67,693
Total attendees: 46
Total feds on travel: 44
Total non-feds on travel: 2
2024 Safe States Conference
Dates: August 20-22, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Portland, Oregon
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The meeting and conference brings together injury and violence prevention (IVP) practitioners, experts, and recipients to showcase IVP research and best practices. It also provides an opportunity for CDC program officials to perform a reverse site visit and share critical administrative updates. Injury and violence is a top 10 leading cause of death in the USA, and the conference provides CDC staff with an opportunity to learn about the latest cutting edge IVP programs, research, science, and practices.
Total estimated cost: $79,841
Total attendees: 38
Total feds on travel: 32
Total non-feds on travel: 6
CADCA's 34th Annual National Leadership Forum & SAMHSA's 20th Annual Prevention Day
Dates: January 29-February 1, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: National Harbor, Maryland
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: CADCA's National Leadership Forum is the premiere training event for prevention professionals, community leaders, advocates, and experts to convene, share insights, and collaborate on innovative strategies to drive lasting and impactful community change. The event offers a national platform to engage coalitions, connected with Drug Free Communities (DFC) support programs, and interact with state and local organizations, as well as federal government agencies around community-based youth substance use prevention.
Total estimated cost: $64,318
Total attendees: 25
Total feds on travel: 23
Total non-feds on travel: 2
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
13th International Occupational Hygiene Association International Scientific Conference-IOHA 2024
Dates: June 9-13, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Dublin, Ireland
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The 13th International Occupational Hygiene Association Scientific Conference aims to promote occupational hygiene and worker health protection by the minimization of worker exposure to hazardous agents globally through plenary sessions, keynote lectures, parallel talks, workshops, and poster presentations, as well as networking opportunities and social functions. The agency's mission is met by information dissemination which will reach multiple targeted audiences.
Total estimated cost: $42,181
Total attendees: 7
Total feds on travel: 7
Total non-feds on travel: 0
2024 International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) 16th International Congress/69th HPS Annual Meeting
Dates: July 7-12, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Orlando, Florida
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Health Physics Society (HPS) Meetings provide a forum for national and international experts to present the latest information in the areas of radiation protection across multiple areas. The annual meeting provides an opportunity for CDC staff to learn about advances in health physics/radiation protection, to stay current on scientific discussions of radiation, and is consistent with CDC's mission.
Total estimated cost: $38,213
Total attendees: 13
Total feds on travel: 12
Total non-feds on travel: 1
2024 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting and Expo
Dates: February 25-28, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Phoenix, Arizona
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting is the preeminent mining conference of the year and the one with a program most closely tied to the NIOSH Mining Program's mission of improving mine safety and health through research and prevention. The SME Meeting has a major mining occupational safety and health component. This is one of the key meetings of people who influence areas related to mine worker health and safety. As such, specifically NIOSH employee participation is directly related to our mission-Our researchers will exchange important occupational safety and health information with some of our key stakeholders.
Description of Exceptional circumstances: This event is widely considered the preeminent mining professional conference and is closely tied to the NIOSH Mining Program mission of improving mine safety & health through research, intervention, and prevention. The conference gives NIOSH Mining Program an opportunity to showcase new mining technology and research findings that have been developed for improving mine worker health and safety. Additionally, the event provides an opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders and interact with other researchers, academic faculty, manufacturers, and industry personnel and present NIOSH research. NIOSH Mining normally has a large exhibit at the conference where many of NIOSH's research accomplishments are displayed and demonstrated. The exhibit has always been an exceptional way to reach out to the mining community and has been highly successful for technology transfer and stakeholder interaction. The booth costs and number of presenters add to the overall cost of the conference.
Total estimated cost: $163,763
Total attendees: 49
Total feds on travel: 40
Total non-feds on travel: 9
The 21st International Society for Respiratory Protection (ISRP) Conference 2024
Dates: September 22-26, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The International Society for Respiratory Protection Biennial Conference is the premier respiratory conference in the world. As leaders in the field of respiratory research, standards development and conformity/performance assessment, it is important for the National Personal Protective Laboratory (NPPTL) to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, both nationally and internationally-NIOSH experts plan and participate in roundtable sessions focusing on timely topics within the healthcare and public safety sectors. Additionally, in celebration of one hundred years of respiratory protection in the United States, a planned roundtable to explore the history of respiratory protection will be held. This conference also includes platform presentations about respirator design and fit testing, international standards, and human factors related to respiratory use. ISRP attendance will further the mission of CDC and NIOSH by connecting NIOSH respiratory researchers with product developers, manufacturers, users, and others to advance respiratory protection in the workplace and in response to natural disasters or man-made events.
Total estimated cost: $36,176
Total attendees: 7
Total feds on travel: 7
Total non-feds on travel: 0
23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
Dates: November 27-30, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Sydney, Australia
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This conference opens dialogue for us to rethink and solve persistent problems to build safer workplaces for the future. Hear about advancements in our understanding of traditional harms. Learn about innovative solutions that are tackling traditional problems and discover best practices that help deal with ongoing health and safety risks, such as safety in design safety data, and employee satisfaction- Attendance supports the CDC's mission to identify ways to improve public policies, regulations OSH prevention or intervention practices to promote worker safety, learn about emerging trends, and develop skills to mitigate new risks and gain knowledge of worker health and safety best practices.
Total estimated cost: $31,230
Total attendees: 5
Total feds on travel: 5
Total non-feds on travel: 0
American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Connects
Dates: May 20-22, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Columbus, Ohio
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: AIHA provides an important source of information on occupational safety and health covering a wide variety of topic areas, including those representing the specific programmatic categories in the NIOSH program portfolio for agriculture, construction, trade, transportation, public and private services, healthcare, and manufacturing. NIOSH staff obtains important feedback from public and private sector workplace manager, and occupational safety and health professionals about safety health issues impacting their workers. This information is used to shape the NIOSH occupational and safety health research agenda as well as the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) which NIOSH administers.
Total estimated cost: $80,615
Total attendees: 39
Total feds on travel: 38
Total non-feds on travel: 1
American Thoracic Society 2024 International Conference (ATS)
Dates: May 17-22, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: San Diego, California
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The American Thoracic Society improves global health by advancing research, patient care, and public health in pulmonary disease. The 2024 American Thoracic Society International Conference offers the latest clinical, essential, and translational science information in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. The event showcases informative scientific sessions, a thematic poster hall, an exhibit hall, industry sessions, specialty events, and opportunities to connect, engage, and collaborate with colleagues from diverse regions of the world, specialty areas, and career levels-All of whom are helping to shape the future of respiratory medicine- The agency's mission is met by information dissemination, which will reach multiple targeted audiences.
Total estimated cost: $53,275
Total attendees: 17
Total feds on travel: 15
Total non-feds on travel: 2
Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES) 67th Annual Meeting and Exhibition
Dates: October 23-27, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: HFES provides education, builds connections, and advocates on behalf of human factors/ergonomics field—from students to researchers, and industry practitioners. The meeting fosters collaboration across the spectrum of professionals to drive forward advances in human factors and ergonomics HFES believes that the seamless connection between humans and systems, and the connection between research and application, is vital to keeping all human beings safe. The annual meeting features more than 130 concurrent sessions, 600 technical presentations, hours of dedicated networking time, plus interactive poster presentations and demonstrations, Student Career and Professional Development Day, National Ergonomics Month Expo, User Experience Day, content related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and much more.
Total estimated cost: $34,016
Total attendees: 12
Total feds on travel: 10
Total non-feds on travel: 2
MINExpo International 2024
Dates: September 24-26, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Las Vegas, Nevada
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: MINExpo 2024 Las Vegas will be the world's largest and most comprehensive global mining equipment, products, and services exhibition. Organized by the National Mining Association (NMA), MINExpo INTERNATIONAL is a gathering place for all persons involved in mining equipment, safety equipment, engineering, construction and mining services, drilling equipment, materials handling and much more. MINExpo International provides value to participants through exposure to new products and services. Attendees have plenty of opportunity to meet and interact with professionals from across the industry, including production, operations and maintenance personnel, engineers, geologists, environmental professionals, management, approval, and procurement chain personnel, and more-Attendees can find the resources needed for: exploration, mine site development, open pit mining, underground mining, smelting and refining, processing and preparation, reclamation- The attendees can attend speaker sessions and panel discussions to learn of the latest developments in mine worker health and safety, to discuss current PMRD/SMRD research with stakeholders to get feedback and to gain collaborations toward the NIOSH mission of the safety and health of miners.
Total estimated cost: $61,874
Total attendees: 23
Total feds on travel: 22
Total non-feds on travel: 1
The Society of Toxicology (SOT) 63rd Annual Meeting and ToxExpo 2024
Dates: March 10-14, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Salt Lake City, Utah
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: This conference represents an excellent fountain of knowledge for participants and a superb forum for dissemination of results and receipt of expert feedback both of which are vital to the CDC mission. Attendees will share, learn, and update information and methods with and from scientists and researchers in the field, which will improve both individual and team research at CDC. The presentations showcase the current research the divisions are conducting, facilitating the dissemination of findings and information to others in the same field and the public. This is in line with the CDC mission.
Total estimated cost: $123,714
Total attendees: 42
Total feds on travel: 36
Total non-feds on travel: 6
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2024 Annual Meeting
Dates: January 7-11, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: TRB's Annual Meeting attracts thousands of transportation professionals from around the world. The program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. This conference helps with the NIOSH mission to have our researchers focus on advancing infrastructure, exploring transformational technology and caring for the public's health and safety.
Total estimated cost: $40,299
Total attendees: 13
Total feds on travel: 13
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Office of Laboratory Systems and Response
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) 2024 Annual Conference
Dates: May 6-9, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: APHL Annual Conference is of interest to the public health laboratory (PHL) community, brings together leaders, scientists, influencers, and partners to share issues, trends and best practices driving laboratory science and public health today.
Total estimated cost: $96,710
Total attendees: 118
Total feds on travel: 87
Total non-feds on travel: 31
Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 24 Global Health Conference & Exhibition
Dates: March 11-15, 2024
Venue, city, state, or country: Orlando, Florida
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: HIMSS is a mission driven nonprofit organization hosts the leading and largest annual health information and technology conference annually that brings more than 45,000 professionals, public, private, academic, individual, and non-profit from more than 90 countries to learn about the newest health information technology innovations, network, and collaborate. Given CDC's critical role in leading the nation's public health surveillance health information technology transformation as part of CDC's Surveillance Strategy, the CDC Surveillance Data Platform, electronic transfer of health information and medical records, and more it is essential that CDC scientists and program staff attend and participate in this unique event.
Total estimated cost: $128,172
Total attendees: 37
Total feds on travel: 37
Total non-feds on travel: 0
Office of Science
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research PRIM&R Annual Conference (PRIMR23)
Dates: December 3-6, 2023
Venue, city, state, or country: Washington, DC
How the meeting advanced the mission of the agency: The workshop will address both the relying organization and reviewing Institutional Review Board (IRB) perspectives and highlight strategies for addressing the inherent challenges of protecting human subjects within a single IRB review process.
Total estimated cost: $60,226
Total attendees: 28
Total feds on travel: 28
Total non-feds on travel: 0