Volume 23, Supplement—December 2017
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Global Health Security Supplement
Overview
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Its Partners’ Contributions to Global Health Security
Table 2
Global Health Security Agenda’s prevent, detect, and respond framework against infectious disease threats and its 11 measurable action packages (14,15)
Steps and actions |
Prevent: systems, policies, and procedures to mitigate avoidable outbreaks |
Surveillance to guide slowing of antimicrobial resistance |
National biosecurity system |
Policies and practices that reduce the risk of zoonotic disease transmission |
Immunization of 90% of children <1 year of age with >1 dose of measles vaccine |
Detect: a national surveillance and laboratory system capable of reliable testing for >5 of 10 core tests relevant to the country’s epidemiologic profile on specimens from disease clusters in >80% of districts |
Standardized surveillance for 3 core syndromes |
Regional and national interoperable electronic reporting systems |
Timely reporting to World Health Organization (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |
Multidisciplinary public health workforce with ≥1 epidemiologist per 200,000 population |
Respond: a national public health Emergency Operations Center capable of activating an emergency response in <2 hours |
Trained rapid response teams |
Linkages between public health and law enforcement for suspected biologic attacks |
National framework to engage international partners during a public health emergency |
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