The primary goals and outcomes for the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases are the following:
- Provide Platform for One Health research in Iowa.
- This novel enterprise will focus on specific emerging infectious diseases incorporating health scientists who study epidemiology and pathogenesis of these selected agents in human, veterinary and insect hosts.
- Research efforts will be investigator-driven UI/ISU collaborative efforts that, as their goal, provide a better understanding of zoonotic disease emergence, transmission, pathogenesis and treatment.
- Provide novel training opportunities for the best and brightest of Iowa and beyond.
- CEID collaborative research efforts will be a launching point to attain further support for recruitment, training and mentoring the top regional, national and international students in recognition, understanding and prevention of zoonotic infectious diseases.
- Recruiting students to CEID will be based on outreach to bright, interested, highly-motivated, medical, veterinary and public health students; traditionally outstanding students and broad-minded thinkers.
- CEID training will provide these students with a much sought-after skill-set desired by stakeholder industries within the state of Iowa, to multiple pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and more traditional academic career paths.
- Re-establish and build a nationally renowned zoonotic disease center at the University of Iowa.
- CEID member scientists craft and apply for multiple sources of collaborative funding including from NIH, USDA, CDC, NSF, multiple on-governmental foundations and industry.
- Collaborative sessions between core Pls and more junior scientists will focus on best-practices for attaining funding from these sources, and identification of stringent grant application revision teams before each submission.