Surveillance Design After Initial Detection

Abstract

Surveillance is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information to support prevention and mitigation of pest and pathogen impacts across natural and managed health systems. Surveillance provides an informational foundation for the risks posed by the organism, current status of the outbreak, directing limited resources, and effectiveness of management actions within the context of a response. Each response may have a series of management goals to accomplish over time and the information needs to support each goal will vary. Surveillance must be appropriately designed to align with the response goal and be well supported by risk assessment information on the biology of the invasive pest/pathogen, biology of the host or host system, pathways of introduction and spread, types and magnitude of impact, etc. This chapter proposes a generalized framework as a starting place for designing surveillance schemes using core design factors and how to effectively narrow parameterization of these factors within the context of a response goal.