Selected article for: "global network and public health"
Author: Hamer, Davidson H; Rizwan, Aisha; Freedman, David O; Kozarsky, Phyllis; Libman, Michael
Title: GeoSentinel: past, present and future
  • Cord-id: hehvdfvo
  • Document date: 2020_11_27
    • ID: hehvdfvo
    Snippet: RATIONALE FOR REVIEW: In response to increased concerns about emerging infectious diseases, GeoSentinel, the Global Surveillance Network of the International Society of Travel Medicine in partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was established in 1995 in order to serve as a global provider-based emerging infections sentinel network, conduct surveillance for travel-related infections and communicate and assist global public health responses. This review summarize
    Document: RATIONALE FOR REVIEW: In response to increased concerns about emerging infectious diseases, GeoSentinel, the Global Surveillance Network of the International Society of Travel Medicine in partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was established in 1995 in order to serve as a global provider-based emerging infections sentinel network, conduct surveillance for travel-related infections and communicate and assist global public health responses. This review summarizes the history, past achievements and future directions of the GeoSentinel Network. KEY FINDINGS: Funded by the US CDC in 1996, GeoSentinel has grown from a group of eight US-based travel and tropical medicine centers to a global network, which currently consists of 68 sites in 28 countries. GeoSentinel has provided important contributions that have enhanced the ability to use destination-specific differences to guide diagnosis and treatment of returning travelers, migrants and refugees. During the last two decades, GeoSentinel has identified a number of sentinel infectious disease events including previously unrecognized outbreaks and occurrence of diseases in locations thought not to harbor certain infectious agents. GeoSentinel has also provided useful insight into illnesses affecting different traveling populations such as migrants, business travelers and students, while characterizing in greater detail the epidemiology of infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, leishmaniasis and Zika virus disease. CONCLUSIONS: Surveillance of travel- and migration-related infectious diseases has been the main focus of GeoSentinel for the last 25 years. However, GeoSentinel is now evolving into a network that will conduct both research and surveillance. The large number of participating sites and excellent geographic coverage for identification of both common and illnesses in individuals who have traversed international borders uniquely position GeoSentinel to make important contributions of travel-related infectious diseases in the years to come.

    Search related documents:
    Co phrase search for related documents
    • action information and acute respiratory syndrome: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    • action information and local transmission: 1, 2
    • action information and machine learning: 1, 2
    • acute respiratory syndrome and adaptive control: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
    • acute respiratory syndrome and local expertise: 1
    • acute respiratory syndrome and local patient population: 1
    • acute respiratory syndrome and local transmission: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
    • acute respiratory syndrome and low cost diagnostic: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    • acute respiratory syndrome and machine learning: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
    • acute respiratory syndrome and machine learning technique: 1, 2, 3
    • adaptive control and machine learning: 1, 2
    • local patient population and machine learning: 1
    • local transmission and machine learning: 1
    • low cost diagnostic and machine learning: 1, 2