Research within the centre will be directed towards addressing:

• Clinical Research of infectious diseases

• Development of diagnostics and pathogen discovery

• Genomic surveillance

• One Health surveillance

• Global Health

• Predictive modelling

• Maternal and Child Health

Some of the transdisciplinary objectives of the Centre includes:

• Mitigate the risk of emergence and reemergence of respiratory and arboviruses effected by climate change and global expansion of vectors, human and animal reservoirs.

• Predict outbreaks of emerging and reemerging Arbo and respiratory viruses in Africa and internationally through modelling of environmental factors, vector and host factors.

• Early detection of emerging and reemerging Arbo and respiratory viruses in the environment, animals and humans before it causes large outbreaks and spread to new regions through development of state-of-the-art diagnostics.

• Establish integrated One Health syndromic and genomic surveillance in humans, animals and the environment.

• Prevent outbreaks and limit their impact through development of vaccines, therapeutics and non-pharmaceutical interventions.