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Disease Surveillance Networks

Selected Grantees supported through the Disease Surveillance Networks Initiative

• Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network (MBDS) Coordinating Office http://www.mbdsoffice.com/ for sustainable governance for the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network.



• International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org/ (ProMED, Pro-MBDS) to promote rapid communication of outbreak information across the Mekong region



• Global Health and Security Initiative http://www.ghsi.org of the Nuclear Threat Initiative to organize the Bellagio conference in December 2007 to promote collaboration across regional surveillance networks



• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/ to conduct evaluation of health systems capacity, and assessing resource gaps and governance weaknesses in order to mitigate the consequences of pandemic influenza in Lao P.D.R. and Cambodia



• RAND Corporation http://rand.org/ to conduct pandemic simulation exercises, both at a country-level as well as across the region



• InSTEDD http://instedd.org/ (Innovative Support for Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters to develop a prototype pandemics preparedness system, designed to increase the capacity of countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region to respond to a pandemic emergency



• Mahidol University http://seameotropmednetwork.org/index.asp for use by the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Washington, to establish a Center of Excellence for Informatics in Health Sciences and a Master’s/PhD. program in health informatics



• Asian Disaster Preparedness Center http://www.adpc.net to strengthen capacities in Southeast Asia, as the epicenter of potential pandemics, to anticipate, prepare for and manage the risks of zoonotic disease emergencies at the regional, national and local levels



• Wildlife Conservation Society http://www.wcs.org to support seed grants for research and implementation of inter-disciplinary surveillance approaches at the intersection of human livelihoods, wild and domestic animal health, and ecosystem health in sub-Saharan Africa



• Tufts University http://www.tufts.edu/vet/ for the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine to support the planning phase of a project to determine the potential benefit of advanced education and training in veterinary public health in Indonesia and to consider the applicability and replicability in other Southeast Asian countries

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