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Facilitating the Use of Epidemiological Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance
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Epidemiological modeling for infectious disease is useful for disease management and routine implementation needs to be facilitated through better description of models in an operational context. A standardized model characterization process that… read more -
Analytics for Investigation of Disease Outbreaks (AIDO)
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Situational awareness, or the understanding of elemental components of an event with respect to both time and space, is critical for public health decision-makers during an infectious disease outbreak. AIDO is a web-based tool designed to… read more -
Evaluating Biosurveillance System Components using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
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The evaluation of biosurveillance system components is a complex, multi-objective decision that requires consideration of a variety of factors. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis provides a methodology to assist in the objective analysis of these… read more -
A Systematic Evaluation of Data Streams for Global Disease Surveillance
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Living in a closely connected and highly mobile world presents many new mechanisms for rapid disease spread and in recent years, global disease surveillance has become a high priority. In addition, much like the contribution of non-traditional… read more -
The Biosurveillance Resource Directory - A One-Stop Shop for Systems, Sources, and Tools
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Local, national, and global infectious disease surveillance systems have been implemented to meet the demands of monitoring, detecting, and reporting disease outbreaks and prevalence. Varying surveillance goals and geographic reach have led to… read more -
Spatial temporal cluster analysis to enhance awareness of disease re-emergence on a global scale
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The re-emergence of an infectious disease is dependent on social, political, behavioral, and disease-specific factors. Global disease surveillance is a requisite of early detection that facilitates coordinated interventions to these events. Novel… read more -
Re-emerging Infectious Disease (RED) Alert tool
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Definitions of âre-emerging infectious diseasesâ typically encompass any disease occurrence that was a historic public health threat, declined dramatically, and has since presented itself again as a significant health problem. Examples include… read more