全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): EpiCore: Harnessing a Network of Health Professionals for Verification of Public Health Events

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来源类型	Publication
	EpiCore: Harnessing a Network of Health Professionals for Verification of Public Health Events
	So O'; Neil; Divya Vohra; and Brenna Rabel
发表日期	2017-08-23
出版者	Cambridge, MA: Mathematica Policy Research
出版年	2017
语种	英语
概述	For Skoll Global Threats Fund, Mathematica conducted an initial assessment of EpiCore, an innovative public health system designed to verify the presence of outbreaks and other public health events faster than existing mechanisms alone. The issue brief reflects on EpiCore’s progress a year and a half after its launch. ",
摘要	Key Findings: EpiCore has brought together a network of health, animal, and environmental health professionals that extends around the global, particular in areas where diseases could spread most rapidly and harm large populations. Network members bring diverse types of expertise and work in various sectors, including government and inter-government, non-governmental and non-profit, and private. RFIs have included public health events in 95 countries, with known and unknown etiology and infectiousness, and affecting various susceptible populations. On average, members responded to RFIs within nearly one day of issuance, verifying over a quarter of RFIs as either a public health event or non-event. EpiCore is an innovative public health system designed to confirm the presence of outbreaks and other public health events faster than existing mechanisms alone. The system relies on a global membership network of human, animal, and environmental health professionals to provide information to verify events reported into it. In its first year and a half of operation, the EpiCore network has grown to 1,817 qualified members from a range of backgrounds. In addition, the system has sent out 484 requests for information (RFIs) about potential public health events to these members for verification. As the platform continues to evolve, EpiCore partners are reflecting on its progress to date and considering its path forward in terms of partnering with other surveillance networks and systems, as well as membership growth and training.
URL	https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/epicore-harnessing-a-network-of-health-professionals-for-verification-of-public-health-events
来源智库	Mathematica Policy Research (United States)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/488977
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	So O',Neil,Divya Vohra,et al. EpiCore: Harnessing a Network of Health Professionals for Verification of Public Health Events. 2017.

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