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World Health Organization (2015)

Integrated Outbreak Analytics Toolkit

Global Outbreak Alerts Response Network GOARN (2025) CC

Integrated Outbreak Analytics (IOA) applies a multidisciplinary approach to understanding outbreak dynamics and to inform outbreak response. It aims to drive comprehensive, accountable, and effective public health and clinical strategies by enabling communities, and national and subnational health a... more

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Plague Inc: The Cure

Ndemic Creations World Health Organization (WHO), Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN). (2021) CC

Leading disease outbreak experts have come together to show gamers everywhere how to spot and stop a pandemic. The popular simulation Plague Inc: The Cure not only transports players into a global public health outbreak similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new feature also provides expert comment... more

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Global genomic surveillance strategy for pathogens with pandemic and epidemic potential, 2022–2032

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The Strategy provides a high-level unifying framework to leverage existing capacities, address barriers and strengthen the use of genomic surveillance in the detection, monitoring and response to public health threats. Genomic surveillance is part of the broader surveillance and laboratory system, a... more

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In Control: A Practical Handbook for Professionals Working in Health Emergencies Internationally RKI

Robert Koch Institut RKI (2023) CC

The greatest risk to persons engaging in international medical emergency response is poor preparation. The In Control handbook hopes to provide a remedy. At the time of writing, we are living through the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a health emergency that disregards physical borders, brin...gs into focus social inequalities and affects people on every continent. This shared challenge requires unprecedented measures and the collaboration of the brightest minds to support global health protection through this crisis and beyond. Healthcare infrastructures have to be strengthened, public health capacities and processes upgraded, medical countermeasures and vaccinations found and psychosocial side-effects treated. Solidarity is the normative order of the day and the human species has to collaborate to face this invisible threat. Hiding and living in fear is not an option in this interconnected world. We have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make substantial contributions to a safer, healthier and more sustainable future for us all. The existence of this handbook is an impressive example of solidarity. Over 50 authors from more than 15 institutes and organisations have come together voluntarily within a very short time to make their expertise available and enable cross-sectoral thinking. Knowledge is bundled, resources are combined, information gaps are filled. The In Control handbook is not a theoretical treatise of possible dangers, but a collection of subject-matter expertise, written by experts and practitioners who have shaped health topics over the past 20 years in the most diverse corners of the world. The Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is collaborating with its partners and investing heavily in the build-up of operational know-how and capacity to support health crisis response abroad. This is done by preparing and enabling professionals to deploy safely across the world to assist those in need. In Control addresses the multi-faceted challenges of an international deployment. Readers will find not only technical medical information, but also insights into, for example, the fragility of our environment, the cultural differences that influence risk communication or the dilemmas arising from social distancing. Legal principles are highlighted, along with ethical guidance to ensure that our actions and decisions correspond to the highest moral standards. more

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GO pre-deployment training: participant handbook
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World Health Organization WHO (2015) C_WHO

This is a pre-deployment training, tailored specially to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, offered to WHO personnel, consultants, and key partners. The material covered in modules 1-4 is applicable and useful to frontline response workers, national and international. Only Module 5, which focuses on... more

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Global Monitoring of Disease Outbreak Preparedness: Preventing the Next Pandemic

Harvard Global Health Institute (2018) C1

This report is primarily intended for the community of policymakers and researchers concerned about the rising risks of domestic, regional, and global infectious disease epidemics, and the collective failure to take the coordinated actions required to reduce such risks. These risks include the expec... more

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Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan to End the Global COVID-19 Emergency in 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

More than two years since the first SARS-CoV-2 infections were reported, the COVID-19 pandemic remains an acute global emergency. In this Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response plan for 2022, WHO sets out a number of key strategic adjustments that, if implemented rapidly and consistently at ... more

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WHO Strategic Action Plan for Ebola Outbreak Response

World Health Organization (2014)

Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Response Plan in West Africa July to December 2014. Annex 1

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2015 WHO Strategic Response Plan - West Africa Ebola Outbreak

World Health Organization (2015)

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Measles outbreaks strategic response plan: 2021–2023: measles outbreak prevention, preparedness, response and recovery

World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC

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Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Response Plan in West Africa July to December 2014

World Health Organization; Governments of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone (2014)

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Wash interventions in disease outbreak response

Travis Yates, Jelena V. Allen, Myriam Leandre Joseph et al. Humanitarian Evidence Programme, Oxford, Oxfam (2017) C1

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Conference "lessons learned for public health from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa – how to improve preparedness and response in the EU for future outbreaks"

European Commission, Government of Luxembourg (2016) C1

- Conference summary report

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Online global consultation on contact tracing for COVID-19, 9-11 June 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

COVID-19 has heavily emphasized how contact tracing is crucial for managing outbreaks, and as part of the strategy for adjusting, and eventually lifting, lockdowns and other stringent public health and social measures. As the pandemic develops further, it will be a core measure to manage further wav... more

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International Health Emergency Response Plan- Marburg Virus Disease

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

On 17 October 2017, the Ugandan Ministry of Health notified WHO of a confirmed Marburg outbreak of Marburg Virus disease (MVD) in Kween district, Eastern Uganda. The outbreak was officially declared by the Ministry of health on 19 October 2017. As of 7 November, four cases of MVD have been reported... more

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Ebola Response Roadmap
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World Health Organization (2014)

The World Health Organization is issuing a "roadmap" to guide and coordinate the international response to the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa. The aim is to stop ongoing Ebola transmission worldwide within 6–9 months, while rapidly managing the consequences of any further interna... more

GO pre-deployment training: participant handbook recommended

Ebola Response Roadmap recommended

GO pre-deployment training: participant handbook
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Ebola Response Roadmap
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