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Outbreak Detection

Description

Multiple agencies are involved in global disease surveillance and coordination of activities is essential to achieve broad public health impact. Multiple examples of effective and collaborative initiatives exist. The WHO/AFRO developed Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) framework, adopted by 43 of the 46 AFRO member states and applied in other WHO regions, was the first framework designed to strengthen national disease surveillance and response systems. The WHO International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 are an agreement between 196 countries to prevent, detect and respond to the international spread of disease. In 2013 CDC worked with Uganda and Vietnam to demonstrate the development of surveillance, laboratory, and emergency response center capacity and link data systems for six outbreak prone diseases. More recently, the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was launched with the support of 28 countries, WHO, OIE and FAO just as Ebola was beginning to emerge in West Africa. This panel brings together CDC, local implementing partners, academic technical partners, and international non-government donor to discuss current and evolving strategies for prevention, detection, and response activities needed for global health security. 

Objective

The session will discuss strategies for outbreak prevention, detection, and response for global health security and explore how these activities inform both domestic and international initiatives. Innovations in epidemiology, laboratory, informatics, investment, and coordination for disease surveillance will be discussed. 

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Description

Identifying, solving, and stopping foodborne outbreaks in the U.S. requires the collaboration and coordination of multiple federal agencies and centers as well as state and local authorities. FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network is responsible for outbreak surveillance, response, and post-response activities related to incidents involving multiple illnesses linked to FDA-regulated food. CORE collaborates with CDC to obtain data on foodborne illnesses and illness clusters and with FDA Centers and field staff to obtain laboratory and inspectional information related to contaminated foods and foodborne illness outbreaks. CORE’s Signals and Surveillance team coordinates isolate tracking activities among several organizations within FDA and CDC and the isolate database was developed for timely information sharing and early signal detection. 

Objective

To create a forum and database for FDA and CDC epidemiologists, laboratorians, and outbreak scientists for tracking recent food and environmental surveillance sampling isolates identified through Reportable Food Registries reports and regulatory inspectional findings, and analyzing them for matches to clinical isolates for early outbreak detection. 

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