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Finding Outbreaks Faster.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- What are the characteristics of participatory surveillance systems for influenza-like-illness?Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
- Resolving plasmid-encoded carbapenem resistance dynamics and reservoirs in a hospital setting through nanopore sequencing.Microbial genomics · 2026Article
- Estimating the impact of decreasing vaccination response times for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in low- and middle-income countries.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Timeliness in canine rabies outbreak report and response.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Progress in epidemic-ready primary health care: early pilot results from four African countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Uganda), December 2023 - October 2024.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Collaborative Surveillance: Using a Minimum Set of Key Data Parameters for One Health Participatory Surveillance.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- More Timely Response to Outbreaks of Zoonotic Compared to Non-Zoonotic Diseases in Animals in Tanzania.Veterinary medicine and science · 2025Article
- Adoption and use of the 7-1-7 metrics for effective detection, notification, and early response actions to public health events: A mixed-methods study in Cambodia, January 2023 to July 2025.Wellcome open research · 2025Article
- Evaluation of response to a cholera outbreak in January 2024 using the 7-1-7 timeliness metrics: a case study of Elegu Point of Entry, Uganda.BMC public health · 2024Article
- How feasible or useful are timeliness metrics as a tool to optimise One Health outbreak responses?BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Establishing an early warning event management system at Africa CDC.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Rapid identification and subsequent contextualization of an outbreak of methicillin-resistantMicrobial genomics · 2024Article
- Evaluating event-based surveillance capacity in Africa: Use of the Africa CDC scorecard, 2022-2023.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- The World Health Organization's Disease Outbreak News: A retrospective database.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Uganda's experience in establishing an electronic compendium for public health emergencies.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- One Health timeliness metrics to track and evaluate outbreak response reporting: A scoping review.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Article
- [A new understanding of risk communication in public health emergencies].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2022Review
- 7-1-7: an organising principle, target, and accountability metric to make the world safer from pandemics.Lancet (London, England) · 2021Review
- Known and Unknown Transboundary Infectious Diseases as Hybrid Threats.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Measuring Timeliness of Outbreak Response in the World Health Organization African Region, 2017-2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2020Article
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Abstract
Rapid detection, reporting, and response to an infectious disease outbreak are critical to prevent localized health events from emerging as pandemic threats. Metrics to evaluate the timeliness of these critical activities, however, are lacking. Easily understood and comparable measures for tracking progress and encouraging investment in rapid detection, reporting, and response are sorely needed. We propose that the timeliness of outbreak detection, reporting, laboratory confirmation, response, and public communication should be considered as measures for improving global health security at the national level, allowing countries to track progress over time and inform investments in disease surveillance.
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