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These shareable resources showcase the depth and diversity of the Global Disease Detection program as we work with countries to build capacity to find and stop outbreaks around the world.
Helpful Links and Additional Resources
- GDD: About Us
- GDD Operations Center: About Us
- Healthy People 2020, Global Health Data Details
- International Health Regulations (IHR), Core Functions
- CDC’s Global Disease Detection Program: Safeguarding our Nation, Testimony before Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, October 4, 2007
- Global Health Security Agenda
- The U.S. Commitment to the Global Health Security Agenda
- CDC and the Global Health Security Agenda
- The U.S. Response to the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa
- CDC Foundation: Safeguarding our Nation’s Health
- Investing in a Safer United States, What is Global Health Security and Why Does it Matter?, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- A Greater Mekong Health Security Partnership, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Microbial Threats to Health, Emergence, Detection, and Response, Institute of Medicine
- People. Pathogens. Protection., Joel Montgomery, PhD December 13, 2015
- Global Health Security, Scott Dowell, MD, MPH, February 24, 2013
- Kenya: Asst. Sec. Thomas-Greenfield Visits Health Programs in Kibera, December 31, 2013
- How the CDC responds to global emerging infections: a conversation with Scott Dowell, Science Speaks, February 15, 2012.
- CDC Expanding Disease Detection Center Program to Protect Against Emerging Diseases, Vaccine News, May 13, 2010
- The Nairobi Slums: a Crucible for Metrics Studies?, Steven Phillips, Center for Strategic and International Studies, August 13, 2009
- Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition.
- All Centers conduct surveillance as part of the GDD program. Decisions for what gets tracked is based on country priorities, established programs in place, and available resources. Centers work with host countries to employ a variety of surveillance methods, including Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response.
- As of 2014, the following diseases and conditions were tracked through population-based surveillance at Centers.
- Hospital-acquired infections
- Bacterial blood stream infections
- Diarrheal disease
- Acute febrile illness
- Acute Neurological Disease
- Acute Jaundice Syndrome
- Influenza-like illnesses
- Severe acute respiratory infections
- Tuberculosis
- Zoonotic diseases - other
- World Antibiotic Awareness Week
- Raising Awareness About #AntibioticResistance, Judith Garber, November 23, 2015
- Antimicrobial Resistance—A Global Imperative, Benjamin J. Park, MD, November 16, 2015
- The State of the World’s Antibiotics: Resistance Rates Rising, Stewardship is the Solution, Ramanan Laxminarayan, November 16, 2015
- CDC - Antibiotic Resistance
- WHO – Global Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Infographic – Antibiotic Resistance: The Global Threat
- WHO estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases, Foodborne diseases burden epidemiology reference group 2007-2015
- Foodborne Disease Online Tool, WHO
- Traveler’s Health, Food and Water Safety
- PulseNet International
- Global Foodborne Infections Network
- International Collaboration on Enteric Disease 'Burden of Illness' Studies
- Food Safety: A changing landscape in a global world, Laura Burnworth and Suzie Heitfeld, April 7, 2015
- When Food Bites Back: Think locally, act globally, Rob Tauxe, Dana Pitts, June 10, 2013
- Global Networks Make Food Safer, CDC Feature, March 25, 2013
- Page last reviewed: December 11, 2015
- Page last updated: December 11, 2015
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