The Politics of Surveillance and Response to Disease Outbreaks: The New Frontier for States and Non-state Actors

205 Pages·2015·1.07 MB·English

by  Sare E. Davies

The PoliTics of surveillance and
resPonse To disease ouTbreaks
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The Politics of surveillance and
Response to Disease Outbreaks
The New Frontier for States and Non-state Actors
Edited by
sara e. davies
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
JeReMY R. YOuDe
University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
© Sara e. Davies and Jeremy R. Youde 2015
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The politics of surveillance and response to disease outbreaks : the new frontier for states
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epidemics. 3. World health. I. Youde, Jeremy R., 1976- II. Title.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction A Study of the Politics of Surveillance and Responses to
Disease Outbreaks 1
Sara E. Davies and Jeremy R. Youde
1 Surveillance, Response, and Responsibilities in the 2005
International Health Regulations 9
Sara E. Davies and Jeremy R. Youde
2 The Revised International Health Regulations and
Outbreak Response 23
Simon Rushton and Adam Kamradt-Scott
3 Risk Perception, Assessment, and Management in Responses to
Pandemic Influenza 41
Theresa Seetoh, Marco Liverani, and Richard Coker
4 Biosurveillance, Human Rights, and the Zombie Plague 57
Jeremy R. Youde
5 GPHIN Phase 3: One Mandate, Multiple Stakeholders 71
Abla Mawudeku, Philip AbdelMalik,
Richard Lemay, and Louise Boily
6 A Review of Web-based Epidemic Detection 85
Nigel H. Collier
7 GPHIN, GOARN, GONE? The Role of the World Health
Organization in Global Disease Surveillance and Response 107
Clare Wenham
vi The Politics of Surveillance and Response to Disease Outbreaks
8 Insights into Surveillance from the Influenza Virus and Benefit
Sharing Controversy 121
Frank L. Smith III
9 Biosurveillance as National Policy: The United States’ National
Strategy for Biosurveillance 137
Jeremy R. Youde
10 Strengthening National Health Systems’ Capacity to Respond to
Future Global Pandemics 157
Jennifer S. Edge and Steven J. Hoffman
Conclusion 181
Sara E. Davies and Jeremy R. Youde
Index 189
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 Decision making instrument for IHR (2005),
adapted from Annex 2 13
3.1 A conceptual framework on risk characterisation 48
6.1 The BioCaster portal (http://born.nii.ac.jp) is a 24/7 system
designed to deliver a variety of methods for enhanced access to
epidemic events reported in news and social media 87
8.1 Exchange relationships within the Global Influenza Surveillance
Network (recently renamed the Global Influenza Surveillance and
Response System) 123
10.1 Some pandemic risk factors and their relationship to infectious
disease emergence 161
Tables
6.1 Summary of steps in text mining systems for epidemic intelligence 91
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Notes on Contributors
Philip AbdelMalik, is Program Director in the Canadian Field Epidemiology
Program at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Louise Boily, MA, is Senior Operations Manager in the Situational Awareness
Section in the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Public
Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Richard Coker is Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, Visiting Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public
Health, NUS, Singapore, and Counselor to the Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol
University, Bangkok. His research interest is in health systems and infectious
diseases in SE Asia.
Nigel H. Collier is Marie Curie Research Fellow with the European Bioinformatics
Institute in Cambridge, UK, and Associate Professor at the National Institute of
Informatics, Japan and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan.
Sara E. Davies is ARC Future Fellow and QUT Vice Chancellor Research Fellow,
Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University
of Technology, Australia. She is also Program Director, Prevention of Mass Atrocities,
Asia Pacific Centre for Responsibility to Protect (University of Queensland).
Jennifer S. Edge is Research Associate at Harvard Global Health Institute in the
United States of America.
Steven J. Hoffman, BHSc, MA, JD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical
Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University in Canada and a Visiting
Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in the
United States of America.
Adam Kamradt-Scott is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for International Security
Studies, Department of Government and International Relations, University of
Sydney. Adam is also the Precinct Leader for the Humanities Node of the Marie
Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity.
Richard Lemay is a Project Manager with the Centre for Emergency Preparedness
and Response at the Public Health Agency of Canada.