Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin. Workshop Report

摘要

During the 2-day workshop in June 2008, epidemiologists, laboratory scientists, researchers, policy makers, human and animal health clinicians, disease prevention and control experts, and others from around the world presented their personal views in 15-minute presentations about a set of topics. Those topics include the human-animal-ecosystem interface and its associated drivers that promote the emergence of infectious diseases; the value and limitations of existing global and regional human and animal health active and passive surveillance networks and systems; reporting standards, data collection, and information sharing; early warning systems for epizootic and zoonotic diseases in animals and humans respectively; and global and regional laboratory and epidemiology capacity. Participants were asked to discuss whether there is a need for sustainable global capacity for surveillance that could inform response to zoonoses; to explore how that capacity might be conceptualized and operationalized on different levels; and to identify stakeholders who would be expected to assume leadership roles to help achieve this capacity. Participants were also asked to consider and explore other critical elements for such an endeavor, including human and animal health infrastructure needs; governance and funding challenges; workforce collaboration and training needs; multidisciplinary data collection and data-sharing challenges; and the complex interactions of economic and trade policies, regulations, and structures with human and animal health needs. This report is a summary of those presentations and discussions at the workshop; it is not intended to be a comprehensive examination of the subject matter.