Published: March 6, 2003. By LOIS BAKER Contributing Editor. The university is establishing one of the first local health-surveillance systems in the United States, which aims to do for the eight ...

Three Southern African countries now have Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) Guidelines--a critical tool for detecting and responding to emerging health risks. Event-based surveillance systems collect and ...

The "silos of our public health surveillance system" have kept the U.S. behind when it comes to detecting variants throughout the pandemic, says the Brookings Institution's Patel.

Public health surveillance systems are essentially large repositories of data about a community’s health. The same tools that improve performance in other fields can help health agencies save ...

Right now in London and various sites around the UK, more than half a million international travelers are sharing stories, beers, doner kebabs, close living quarters and--let's be frank--the ...

The WastewaterSCAN initiative, which contributes results to the CDC’s separate wastewater surveillance system, launched in November 2020 to scan sewage samples for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are the nation's pre-eminent source of high-quality, objective advice on science, engineering, and health matters. Top experts participate ...

Nearly 20 years ago, when I was appointed vice minister of health in Brazil, one of my first priorities was to modernize our national surveillance system because enhancing our ability to detect ...

Tests are sent to public health labs if there is suspicion of bird flu exposure from a clinician or a sample was submitted for surveillance purposes. Health care systems send in a quantity of flu ...

The decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems, including the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women and the Behavioral Risk Factor ...