Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network’s approach to strategic grouping


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This document elaborates on the strategic grouping approach adopted by the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), focusing on its conceptual and operational aspects. The strategic grouping approach refers to convening partners to work together on mutual technical interests towards strategic goals, and to strengthen collaboration and coordination, promote participation and to deliver common priority Network activities. It is an approach that provides guidance and opportunities for partners to help them better engage in GOARN’s activities at the national and regional levels.




Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) Strategy 2022–2026 Implementation Plan


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The GOARN 2022–2026 Strategy Implementation Plan is a derivative product which follows the GOARN 2022-2026 Strategy. The Implementation Plan is intended to define and present, in a systematic manner and in alignment with GOARN’s areas of work, how the Strategy will be implemented. The Implementation Plan outlines the activities which contribute to GOARN projects and areas of work, and provides timelines for how these will be implemented through to the end of the Strategy.




National outbreak response handbook by the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network


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The National outbreak response handbook by the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) provides national public health agencies, ministries of health and partners with practical guidance as they respond to outbreaks in their country or territory. The Handbook can be used to inform outbreak preparedness and response plans at the national and subnational levels, including to ensure complementarity with existing national outbreak response plans. It summarizes effective organizational structures that can be implemented during national outbreak response, highlights best practices based on GOARN partners’ collective experiences, and references key technical and operational resources that have been developed by GOARN and its partners. This version (2024) of Handbook has been developed following extensive consultation across multidisciplinary GOARN partners and WHO technical teams, including collective response experiences. It is accompanied by an online portal version on the GOARN Knowledge Platform.




Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) strategy 2022-2026


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This document outlines the recommendations/considerations for the GOARN Strategy 2022-2026. Strategy recommendations were developed to shape and define the future directions of the Network through an extensive strategy development process involving interviews with key stakeholders, a survey to GOARN partners, scenario-building workshops, a strategic workshop at the GOARN Global Meeting of Partners, regional consultations with regional focal points and partners, and meetings/workshops with Steering Committee Members to refine and finalize. The Strategy document will be implemented by the GOARN Steering Committee and GOARN partners.




Learning from SARS


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The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that spread rapidly from its origins in southern China until it had reached more than 25 other countries within a matter of months. In addition to the number of patients infected with the SARS virus, the disease had profound economic and political repercussions in many of the affected regions. Recent reports of isolated new SARS cases and a fear that the disease could reemerge and spread have put public health officials on high alert for any indications of possible new outbreaks. This report examines the response to SARS by public health systems in individual countries, the biology of the SARS coronavirus and related coronaviruses in animals, the economic and political fallout of the SARS epidemic, quarantine law and other public health measures that apply to combating infectious diseases, and the role of international organizations and scientific cooperation in halting the spread of SARS. The report provides an illuminating survey of findings from the epidemic, along with an assessment of what might be needed in order to contain any future outbreaks of SARS or other emerging infections.







Second meeting of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) capacity-building and training partners National University of Singapore, 1–2 August 2022


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Over the last 6 years the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) training programme has expanded and evolved to meet the changing outbreak response learning and training needs, with many lessons learned along the way. With a new GOARN Strategy being released in late 2022, there was a need for the GOARN Capacity Building and Training Partners to come together in August 2022 to explore the priority global public health emergency workforce development needs and how the GOARN Capacity Building and Training Programme can be best used to support the workforce development efforts. The meeting report presents the discussions and agreements made by the 29 participating GOARN Partner Institutions which will be used to the inform the Capacity Building and Training elements of the new GOARN strategy and subsequent implementation plan for the coming years for the GOARN capacity building and training programme to help build the required workforce for public health emergencies.




The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies


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Examines key trends in emerging strategic technologies and the implications for geopolitics and human dignity. Al-Rodhan argues that future evolution into transhumans is inevitable. In preparation, the global community is urged to establish strict moral and legal guidelines balancing innovation with the guarantee of dignity for all.







Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases E-Book


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For four decades, physicians and other healthcare providers have trusted Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases to provide expert guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of these complex disorders. The 9th Edition continues the tradition of excellence with newly expanded chapters, increased global coverage, and regular updates to keep you at the forefront of this vitally important field. Meticulously updated by Drs. John E. Bennett, Raphael Dolin, and Martin J. Blaser, this comprehensive, two-volume masterwork puts the latest information on challenging infectious diseases at your fingertips. - Provides more in-depth coverage of epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and treatment of infectious agents than any other infectious disease resource. - Features an increased focus on antibiotic stewardship; new antivirals for influenza, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis C, hepatitis B., and immunizations; and new recommendations for vaccination against infection with pneumococci, papillomaviruses, hepatitis A, and pertussis. - Covers newly recognized enteroviruses causing paralysis (E-A71, E-D68); emerging viral infections such as Ebola, Zika, Marburg, SARS, and MERS; and important updates on prevention and treatment of C. difficile infection, including new tests that diagnose or falsely over-diagnose infectious diseases. - Offers fully revised content on bacterial pathogenesis, antibiotic use and toxicity, the human microbiome and its effects on health and disease, immunological mechanisms and immunodeficiency, and probiotics and alternative approaches to treatment of infectious diseases. - Discusses up-to-date topics such as use of the new PCR panels for diagnosis of meningitis, diarrhea and pneumonia; current management of infected orthopedic implant infections; newly recognized infections transmitted by black-legged ticks in the USA: Borrelia miyamotoi and Powassan virus; infectious complications of new drugs for cancer; new drugs for resistant bacteria and mycobacteria; new guidelines for diagnosis and therapy of HIV infections; and new vaccines against herpes zoster, influenza, meningococci. - PPID continues its tradition of including leading experts from a truly global community, including authors from Australia, Canada and countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. - Includes regular updates online for the life of the edition. - Features more than 1,500 high-quality, full-color photographs—with hundreds new to this edition. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.