Resources

Full report: Hitchcock P, Chamberlain A, Van Wagoner M, Inglesby TV, O'Toole T. Challenges to Global Surveillance and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks of International Importance. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. 2007;5(3). 

Slide presentation: Global Disease Surveillance and Response. This presentation is designed to accompany and illustrate the full report published in Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. It contains multimedia components and requires multiple files to display correctly. Click here for download instructions.

World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2007—A safer future: global public health security in the 21st century. 2007.

World Health Organization. International Health Regulations. 2005

World Health Organization. Global Infectious Disease Surveillance Fact Sheet. June 1998.

Morse S. Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Health Intelligence. Health Affairs. 2007;26(4):1069-1077. 

Wagner M, Moore A, Aryel R, eds. Handbook of Biosurveillance. Los Angeles: Elsevier; 2006.

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.  “Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges—Finding Solutions.” Workshop convened December 12-13, 2006.

United States General Accounting Office. Global Health: Challenges in Improving Infectious Diseases Surveillance. August 2001.

Food and Argiculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

U.S. Medicine Institute for Health Studies. "Assessing Syndromic Surveillance: Costs, Benefits, Future." Roundtable Discussion. October 2007.