Sustaining a Regional Emerging Infectious Disease Research Network: A Trust-Based Approach

Silkavute, Pornpit; Tung, Dinh Xuan; Jongudomsuk, Pongpisut

doi:10.3402/ehtj.v6i0.19957

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“…An extensive consideration of political and economic realities is essential to the success of biosurveillance systems and was identified as a part of the Rockefeller Foundation initiative promoting regional surveillance networks. 8,39 Descriptions, lessons learned, and suggestions of paths forward were provided by the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network, 40 the East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network, 41 the South-Eastern European Health Network, 42 the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance, 43 the Asian Partnership on Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, 44 the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, 45 and the REASAOLAB project involving clinical laboratories in West Africa. 46 One consistent issue with all of these efforts is how to sustain the long-term activity and continuity in training and interactions that is so crucial to the productivity and trust necessary for crisis response.…”

Section: Surveillance Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Surveillance for Emerging Diseases with Multiplexed Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Deshpande¹,

McMahon²,

Daughton³

et al. 2016

Health Security

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We present an analysis of the diagnostic technologies that were used to identify historical outbreaks of Ebola virus disease and consider systematic surveillance strategies that may greatly reduce the peak size of future epidemics. We observe that clinical signs and symptoms alone are often insufficient to recognize index cases of diseases of global concern against the considerable background infectious disease burden that is present throughout the developing world. We propose a simple sampling strategy to enrich in especially dangerous pathogens with a low background for molecular diagnostics by targeting blood-borne pathogens in the healthiest age groups. With existing multiplexed diagnostic technologies, such a system could be combined with existing public health screening and reference laboratory systems for malaria, dengue, and common bacteremia or be used to develop such an infrastructure in less-developed locations. Because the needs for valid samples and accurate recording of patient attributes are aligned with needs for global biosurveillance, local public health needs, and improving patient care, co-development of these capabilities appears to be quite natural, flexible, and extensible as capabilities, technologies, and needs evolve over time. Moreover, implementation of multiplexed diagnostic technologies to enhance fundamental clinical lab capacity will increase public health monitoring and biosurveillance as a natural extension.

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Section: Surveillance Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Surveillance for Emerging Diseases with Multiplexed Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Deshpande¹,

McMahon²,

Daughton³

et al. 2016

Health Security

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“…The Asia Partnership on Emerging Infectious Disease Research (APEIR) began in 2006, initially with a focus on avian influenza research (24). APEIR covers Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.…”

Section: Expansion Of Regional Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution and Expansion of Regional Disease Surveillance Networks and Their Role in Mitigating the Threat of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Bond

Macfarlane

Burke

et al. 2013

Emerging Health Threats Journal

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We examine the emergence, development, and value of regional infectious disease surveillance networks that neighboring countries worldwide are organizing to control cross-border outbreaks at their source. The regional perspective represented in the paper is intended to serve as an instructive framework for others who decide to launch such networks as new technologies and emerging threats bring countries even closer together. Distinct from more formal networks in geographic regions designated by the World Health Organization (WHO), these networks usually involve groupings of fewer countries chosen by national governments to optimize surveillance efforts. Sometimes referred to as sub-regional, these “self-organizing” networks complement national and local government recognition with informal relationships across borders among epidemiologists, scientists, ministry officials, health workers, border officers, and community members. Their development over time reflects both incremental learning and growing connections among network actors; and changing disease patterns, with infectious disease threats shifting over time from local to regional to global levels. Not only has this regional disease surveillance network model expanded across the globe, it has also expanded from a mostly practitioner-based network model to one that covers training, capacity-building, and multidisciplinary research. Today, several of these networks are linked through Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS). We explore how regional disease surveillance networks add value to global disease detection and response by complementing other systems and efforts, by harnessing their power to achieve other goals such as health and human security, and by helping countries adapt to complex challenges via multi-sectoral solutions. We note that governmental commitment and trust among participating individuals are critical to the success of regional infectious disease surveillance networks.

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“…The spontaneity of the relationships between MBDS members was instrumental in forming the ASEAN Plus Three Centre for Emerging Infectious Disease where 6 of the 13 members are MBDS members (11), the ASEAN Plus Three Field Epidemiology Training Network (12), and the Asian Pacific Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Network (APEIR) with 3 of its 5 members from MBDS countries (13). These networks were also linked by MBDS's to its participation in Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS).…”

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Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS): A Trust-Based Network

Phommasack¹,

Jiraphongsa

Oo³

et al. 2013

Emerging Health Threats Journal

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The Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS) network was formally established in 2001 through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by six Ministers of Health of the countries in the Greater Mekong sub-region: Cambodia, China (Yunnan and Guangxi), Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The main areas of focus of the network are to: i) improve cross-border infectious disease outbreak investigation and response by sharing surveillance data and best practices in disease recognition and reporting, and by jointly responding to outbreaks; ii) develop expertise in epidemiological surveillance across the countries; and iii) enhance communication between the countries. Comprised of senior health officials, epidemiologists, health practitioners, and other professionals, the MBDS has grown and matured over the years into an entity based on mutual trust that can be sustained into the future. Other regions have started emulating the network's pioneering work. In this paper, we describe the development of MBDS, the way in which it operates today, and some of its achievements. We present key challenges the network has faced and lessons its members have learned about how to develop sufficient trust for health and other professionals to alert each other to disease threats across national borders and thereby more effectively combat these threats.

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Sustaining a Regional Emerging Infectious Disease Research Network: A Trust-Based Approach

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Surveillance for Emerging Diseases with Multiplexed Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Surveillance for Emerging Diseases with Multiplexed Point-of-Care Diagnostics

The Evolution and Expansion of Regional Disease Surveillance Networks and Their Role in Mitigating the Threat of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS): A Trust-Based Network

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