CAI’s recent report, Mpox Roadmap Using a Syndemic Approach: Improving Awareness of and Access to Mpox Services, represents the culmination of a one-year supplemental project through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s STOP STDs initiative. Funded from September 2024 through September 2025, the project’s goal was to increase access to and awareness and uptake of mpox and other preventive services among populations at increased risk for mpox; to include identifying existing strategies and resources at federal, regional, state, and local levels that have been used to address mpox (as well as any gaps); and to develop a syndemic approach to mpox and vaccine uptake, for future populations at elevated risk of infection.
The roadmap aims to support public health workers, community leaders, healthcare agencies, and local health departments in identifying strategies for their unique communities.
As a foundation to this work, CAI conducted a comprehensive environmental scan, which included three key components:
- Literature review, covering seven pre-determined key topic areas
- National survey of recipients of the CDC-funded Public Health Crisis Response, which provides awards to state and local governments to enhance the ability to respond to public health emergencies rapidly
- Key informant interviews with community stakeholders and individuals with lived experience (i.e., individuals who worked directly with communities impacted by mpox and individuals who were directly affected by mpox or received mpox prevention services)
To learn more about the Roadmap and Environmental Scan reports, please contact Cynthia Thomas at Cthomas@caiglobal.org
This project was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Project Expansion Supplement on Mpox. The contents of the report represent the views of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, CDC, or the U.S. Government.