Public–private partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)

Gresham, Louise S.; Pray, Leslie; Wibulpolprasert, Suwit; Trayner, Beverly

doi:10.1057/jcb.2011.15

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“…Examples of cross-border collaborations for infectious disease surveillance and control, which in most cases are not malaria-specific but which could provide models for malaria, include the Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS), the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS), the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS), the Asian Partnership on Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, the East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network, the South African Centre for Disease Surveillance and the South Eastern European Health Network, which links the ministries of health of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia (Gresham et al, 2011).…”

Section: International Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The joint team carried out outbreak investigation of malaria between provincial sites in Laos PDR (Savannkhet) and Vietnam (Quang Tri) in 2006 and contained the outbreak (Phommasack et al, 2013). CORDS was established in 2008 and provides a new tool for meeting this social networking challenge on a global scale by fostering the growth of trust-based partnerships among professionals that transcend not just organizational but also geopolitical boundaries (Gresham et al, 2011). MECIDS was established in 2003 and links public health experts and ministry of health officials from Israel, Jordan and Palestine (Gresham et al, 2011).…”

Section: International Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…CORDS was established in 2008 and provides a new tool for meeting this social networking challenge on a global scale by fostering the growth of trust-based partnerships among professionals that transcend not just organizational but also geopolitical boundaries (Gresham et al, 2011). MECIDS was established in 2003 and links public health experts and ministry of health officials from Israel, Jordan and Palestine (Gresham et al, 2011). MECIDS played a pivotal role in detecting salmonella and mumps outbreaks and containing the influenza viruses H5N1 and H1N1 (Gresham et al, 2009).…”

Section: International Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…CORDS also partners with other public and private sector actors who share common health security goals (6, 7, 21, 22); and with individual professionals.…”

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“…CORDS is an international non-governmental organization that links six of these self-assembling regional infectious disease surveillance networks (7–8). Each network is itself an alliance of a small number of neighboring countries working across national borders – sometimes borders in conflict – to tackle infectious disease threats that require unified regional efforts.…”

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Creating a Global Dialogue on Infectious Disease Surveillance: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS)

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Suphanchaimat

et al. 2013

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Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS) is an international non-governmental organization focused on information exchange between disease surveillance networks in different areas of the world. By linking regional disease surveillance networks, CORDS builds a trust-based social fabric of experts who share best practices, surveillance tools and strategies, training courses, and innovations. CORDS exemplifies the shifting patterns of international collaboration needed to prevent, detect, and counter all types of biological dangers – not just naturally occurring infectious diseases, but also terrorist threats. Representing a network-of-networks approach, the mission of CORDS is to link regional disease surveillance networks to improve global capacity to respond to infectious diseases. CORDS is an informal governance cooperative with six founding regional disease surveillance networks, with plans to expand; it works in complement and cooperatively with the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and the Food and Animal Organization of the United Nations (FAO). As described in detail elsewhere in this special issue of Emerging Health Threats, each regional network is an alliance of a small number of neighboring countries working across national borders to tackle emerging infectious diseases that require unified regional efforts. Here we describe the history, culture and commitment of CORDS; and the novel and necessary role that CORDS serves in the existing international infectious disease surveillance framework.

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Data quality and timeliness of outbreak reporting system among countries in Greater Mekong subregion: Challenges for international data sharing

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Cross-border disease transmission is a key challenge for prevention and control of outbreaks. Variation in surveillance structure and national guidelines used in different countries can affect their data quality and the timeliness of outbreak reports. This study aimed to evaluate timeliness and data quality of national outbreak reporting for four countries in the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance network (MBDS). Data on disease outbreaks occurring from 2010 to 2015 were obtained from the national disease surveillance reports of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Data included total cases, geographical information, and dates at different timeline milestones in the outbreak detection process. Nine diseases or syndromes with public health importance were selected for the analysis including: dengue, food poisoning & diarrhea, severe diarrhea, diphtheria, measles, H5N1 influenza, H1N1 influenza, rabies, and pertussis. Overall, 2,087 outbreaks were reported from the four countries. The number of outbreaks and number of cases per outbreak varied across countries and diseases, depending in part on the outbreak definition used in each country. Dates on index onset, report, and response were >95% complete in all countries, while laboratory confirmation dates were 10%-100% incomplete in most countries. Inconsistent and out of range date data were observed in 1%-5% of records. The overall timeliness of outbreak report, response, and public communication was within 1–15 days, depending on countries and diseases. Diarrhea and severe diarrhea outbreaks showed the most rapid time to report and response, whereas diseases such as rabies, pertussis and diphtheria required a longer time to report and respond. The hierarchical structure of the reporting system, data collection method, and country’s resources could affect the data quality and timeliness of the national outbreak reporting system. Differences in data quality and timeliness of outbreak reporting system among member countries should be considered when planning data sharing strategies within a regional network.

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Public–private partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Cross-Border Malaria: A Major Obstacle for Malaria Elimination

Cross-Border Malaria: A Major Obstacle for Malaria Elimination

Creating a Global Dialogue on Infectious Disease Surveillance: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS)

Data quality and timeliness of outbreak reporting system among countries in Greater Mekong subregion: Challenges for international data sharing

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