Volume 30, Supplement—October 2024
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Articles
Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Program Contributions to Pandemic Preparedness and Response
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![Timeline of key Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program events in support of pandemic preparedness and response, United States. Boxes and text indicate critical activities that occurred on or within specific time points. Time points were selected if multiple activities occurred within a several year period. Surveillance program was established in 1997 and has supported and continues to support multiple pandemic and outbreak responses, beginning with pandemic influenza. Key events in the GEIS program history are indicated where the program office or its partners provided support for infectious disease outbreak response or pandemic preparedness activities, including sequencing of samples to better characterize infectious disease threats as they emerged. GEIS, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance; MPXV, monkeypox virus.](/eid/images/24-0305-F1.jpg)
Figure. Timeline of key Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program events in support of pandemic preparedness and response, United States. Boxes and text indicate critical activities that occurred on or within specific time points. Time points were selected if multiple activities occurred within a several year period. Surveillance program was established in 1997 and has supported and continues to support multiple pandemic and outbreak responses, beginning with pandemic influenza. Key events in the GEIS program history are indicated where the program office or its partners provided support for infectious disease outbreak response or pandemic preparedness activities, including sequencing of samples to better characterize infectious disease threats as they emerged. GEIS, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance; MPXV, monkeypox virus.