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The WHO Pandemic Hub is responsible for several initiatives to strengthen pandemic and epidemic intelligence including the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources Initiative (EIOS), [33] International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN), [34] Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) and several others. The Hub works closely with Member States, WHO ...
The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence was established by the Director-General of the World Health Organization and Chancellor of Germany in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is a program of the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [3] The modern EIS is a two-year, hands-on post-doctoral training program in epidemiology , with a focus on field work .
Ronald St. John, then a government epidemiologist, created GPHIN in 1994 as a way to improve Canada's intelligence surrounding outbreaks. [2] Growing in parallel with ProMED-mail, [3] GPHIN was Canada's major contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO), which at one point credited the system with supplying 20 per cent of its "epidemiological intelligence" and described the system as ...
The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is composed of "boots-on-the-ground disease detectives" who investigate public health problems domestically and globally. [42] When called upon by a governmental body, EIS officers may embark on short-term epidemiological assistance assignments, or "Epi-Aids", to provide technical expertise in containing ...
[citation needed] The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence is an early-warning center that attempts to aggregate data and quickly analyze it to predict, prevent, detect, prepare for, and respond to outbreaks and was set up Berlin in September 2021. It uses machine learning and may analyze data about animal health, unusual symptoms in ...
The importance of using unofficial sources of information for public health surveillance has become increasingly recognized. [19] Sometimes referred to as “event-based surveillance” or “epidemic intelligence,” informal disease reporting services, pioneered by ProMED, have become a crucial component of the overall global infectious ...
In December 2005, the Director of National Intelligence appointed Eliot A. Jardines as the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source to serve as the Intelligence Community's senior intelligence officer for open source and to provide strategy, guidance and oversight for the National Open Source Enterprise. [16] Mr.