Disease Surveillance: Nurturing Ecosystems of Information
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Disease surveyors — public health experts who collect, analyse, and interpret enormous amounts of health data, and, like sentries on watch, guard the gate — alert our healthcare first responders whenever infectious diseases threaten. In today’s episode, we explore the role of PandemicTech’s friends and colleagues in disease surveillance — Dr. Britta Lassmann, Dr. Philip AbdelMalik, and Dr. Oyewale Tomori.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Dr. Britta Lassmann
- ProMED
- ISID
- Philip Abdel Malick
- WHO
- WHO EIOS
- Dr. Oyewale Tomori
- Patrick Sawyer
- West African Ebola Epidemic
- “Africa eradicates wild poliovirus,” 25 August 2020, WHO Africa
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