title: Roots, Not Parachutes: Research Collaborations Combat Outbreaks.
abstract: Recent infectious disease epidemics illustrate how health systems failures anywhere can create disease vulnerabilities everywhere. We must therefore prioritize investments in health care infrastructure in outbreak-prone regions of the world. We describe how "rooted" research collaborations can establish capacity for pathogen surveillance and facilitate rapid outbreak responses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Electronic address: nyozwiak@broadinstitute.org.
authors.forename: Nathan L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Yozwiak
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria; African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Christian T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Happi
authors.affiliation: Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Sierra Leone.
authors.forename: Donald S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.affiliation: Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Schieffelin
authors.affiliation: Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Garry
authors.affiliation: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Pardis C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Sabeti
authors.affiliation: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: kristian@andersen-lab.com.
authors.forename: Kristian G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Andersen
mesh_terms: D000354:Africa, Western / Q000453:epidemiology; D035843:Biomedical Research; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000821:virology; D006482:Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000821:virology; D007391:International Cooperation; D014773:Virology / Q000193:education