title: Contributions of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System Network to global health security in 2011.
abstract: In its 15th year, the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) continued to make significant contributions to global public health and emerging infectious disease surveillance worldwide. As a division of the US Department of Defense's Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center since 2008, GEIS coordinated a network of surveillance and response activities through collaborations with 33 partners in 76 countries. The GEIS was involved in 73 outbreak responses in fiscal year 2011. Significant laboratory capacity-building initiatives were undertaken with 53 foreign health, agriculture and/or defense ministries, as well as with other US government entities and international institutions, including support for numerous national influenza centers. Equally important, a variety of epidemiologic training endeavors reached over 4,500 individuals in 96 countries. Collectively, these activities enhanced the ability of partner countries and the US military to make decisions about biological threats and design programs to protect global public health as well as global health security.
authors.affiliation: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D015995:Prevalence; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States; D059030:United States Department of Defense