BACKGROUND The National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), a United Kingdom public health body, is responsible for designating nearly 3500 Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres (YFVCs) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EWNI). In 2005, NaTHNaC established a programme of registration, training, clinical standards and audit for YFVCs following the mandate of International Health Regulati...

The Department of Defense ofthe United States of America (USA) has been conducting respiratory disease surveillance among United States military personnel around the world since the mid-1970s.' The Department's Global Emerging Infections System began in 1997^ and currently includes nearly 500 sites with partners in 75 countries. The primary focus of the network is the early detection and rapid ...

Surveillance is an essential foundation for monitoring and evaluating any disease process, and is especially critical when new disease agents appear. The H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009 tested the capacities of countries to detect, assess, notify and report events as required by the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR). As detailed in the IHR, the World Health Organization drew on offici...

Introduction 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 ...

1Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Indian Institute of Public Health Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India; 2Directorate of Health, Department of Health, Medical & Family Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India; 3Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India; 4Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 5London School of Hygiene a...

The promotion of health and the prevention of disease depend to a large extent on the good planning and management of health programmes. Good planning and management in turn depend on the availability of reliable, accurate and timely information about the health situation. All countries have institution-based systems for the collection of routine information about health-services delivery. Many...

Taiwan's National Laboratory System is one of the action packages of the Global Health Security Agenda, which was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote health security as an international priority and to encourage progress toward full implementation of the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005. The mission of each national laboratory system is to conduct real-time...

Biological risk management in public health focuses on the impact of outbreaks on health, the economy, and other systems and on ensuring biosafety and biosecurity. To address this broad range of risks, the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) request that all member states build defined core capacities, risk communication being one of them. While there is existing guidance on the commun...