title: Lessons from Ebola: Improving infectious disease surveillance to inform outbreak management.
abstract: The current Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa has revealed serious shortcomings in national and international capacity to detect, monitor, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks as they occur. Recent advances in diagnostics, risk mapping, mathematical modeling, pathogen genome sequencing, phylogenetics, and phylogeography have the potential to improve substantially the quantity and quality of information available to guide the public health response to outbreaks of all kinds.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK. mark.woolhouse@ed.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mark E J
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Woolhouse
authors.affiliation: Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rambaut
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1RQ, UK. Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kellam
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D029043:Ebolavirus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D011159:Population Surveillance; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA