Flavia Riccardo, Mika Shigematsu, Catherine Chow, C Jason McKnight, Jens Linge, Brian Doherty, Maria Grazia Dente, Silvia Declich, Mike Barker, Philippe Barboza, Laetitia Vaillant, Alastair Donachie, Abla Mawudeku, Michael Blench, Ray Arthur
The Early Alerting and Reporting (EAR) project, launched in 2008, is aimed at improving global early alerting and risk assessment and evaluating the feasibility and opportunity of integrating the analysis of biological, chemical, radionuclear (CBRN), and pandemic influenza threats. At a time when no international collaborations existed in the field of event-based surveillance, EAR's innovative approach involved both epidemic intelligence experts and internet-based biosurveillance system providers in the framework of an international collaboration called the Global Health Security Initiative, which involved the ministries of health of the G7 countries and Mexico, the World Health Organization, and the European Commission...
November 2014: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science