kent nickell
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A consistent theme of the conference seemed to be the need for timely, transparent and responsible reporting..
Here are some excerpts from presentations by Dr. James Hughes of Emory who gave the opening talk (Professor of Medicine, Professor, Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Director, Emory Program in Global Infectious Diseases, Director, Emory Center for Global Safe Water,Associate Director, Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats), Richard Knox, the 'flu-dude', (health and science correspondent with NPR), Dr. Johan Giesecke (chief scientist at ECDC and state epidemiologist of Sweden from 1995-2005) and Dr. K. Ben Jabara (Paris veterinarian working on the GLEWS, global early warning system for animal diseases , project)
Dr. Hughes
need rapid, transparent info sharing leading to better situational awareness at local levels, need to link surveillance with response, need to strengthen public health particularly lab capacity
Working on a new collaboration of public health institutions worldwide which now includes 50 including UK, China, Nigeria, Thailand, Canada, US, etc with support from the Gates Foundation. One goal is to provide technical assistance to low resource countries http://www.ianphi.org/?action=etusivu
Richard Knox
flu preparedness is a difficult subject to cover but they are trying, media will be crucial during pandemic, participated in a table top excercise with CDC and HHS which stressed the dangers of false reassurances
Dr. Giesecke
go public as soon as possible, use media proactively, don't underestimate peoples intelligence, don't hide information, ideal to have a 24/7 web service with updates
Dr. Jabara
developing a FAO/OIE/WHO joint project for animal diseases including zoonoses such as African and Classical Swine Fever, Avian Flu, Rift Valley Fever etc, are overlying this with data on refugees, climate, economic background to develop disease alerts, trends, analysis, and response http://www.who.int/zoonoses/outbreaks/en/
Here are some excerpts from presentations by Dr. James Hughes of Emory who gave the opening talk (Professor of Medicine, Professor, Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Director, Emory Program in Global Infectious Diseases, Director, Emory Center for Global Safe Water,Associate Director, Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats), Richard Knox, the 'flu-dude', (health and science correspondent with NPR), Dr. Johan Giesecke (chief scientist at ECDC and state epidemiologist of Sweden from 1995-2005) and Dr. K. Ben Jabara (Paris veterinarian working on the GLEWS, global early warning system for animal diseases , project)
Dr. Hughes
need rapid, transparent info sharing leading to better situational awareness at local levels, need to link surveillance with response, need to strengthen public health particularly lab capacity
Working on a new collaboration of public health institutions worldwide which now includes 50 including UK, China, Nigeria, Thailand, Canada, US, etc with support from the Gates Foundation. One goal is to provide technical assistance to low resource countries http://www.ianphi.org/?action=etusivu
Richard Knox
flu preparedness is a difficult subject to cover but they are trying, media will be crucial during pandemic, participated in a table top excercise with CDC and HHS which stressed the dangers of false reassurances
Dr. Giesecke
go public as soon as possible, use media proactively, don't underestimate peoples intelligence, don't hide information, ideal to have a 24/7 web service with updates
Dr. Jabara
developing a FAO/OIE/WHO joint project for animal diseases including zoonoses such as African and Classical Swine Fever, Avian Flu, Rift Valley Fever etc, are overlying this with data on refugees, climate, economic background to develop disease alerts, trends, analysis, and response http://www.who.int/zoonoses/outbreaks/en/