Updated Infectious Disease Working Group

Contact: secretariat@gdin.org

Resources:

Many participants since the first Washington, DC GDIN "Global Disaster Information Network" Conference have seen infectious diseases like avian flu as a natural disaster, sometimes as a cause of another disaster, and a factor that can undermine economic and political stability. Some are also of the view that GDIN could help spur better use of report sensing and information sharing in this field. As a result, one of the proposals that came out of the GDIN2000 Conference in Ankara, Turkey was to create an Infectious Disease Working Group. A discussion of this proposal was held during the summer of 2000 at the United States Institute of Peace and at GDIN2001 in Canberra, Australia in March, 2001 and GDIN2002 in Rome, Italy. There was broad agreement that GDIN needed to foster this effort, perhaps even develop an infectious disease information sharing service. Several papers were also developed on specific disease threats to relief workers. The Infectious Disease Working Group really took off at GDIN2004.  It is not a forum for discussion.  Anyone interested in participating should contact secretariat@gdin.org. .

Resources

Culling Compensation for Avian Flu 4th Int'l Conference on Avian Flu, Bamako, Mali World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) World Bank Avian Flu Website Culling Compensation for Avian Flu

Initial Working Group Participants:

Dr. Vishnu-Priya Sneller, CDC Dr. Eric Noji, Chief, Epidemic Surveillance and Emergency Response Branch, Bioterrorism, CDC Robert J. Coullahan (BIO) , Assistant Vice President Disaster Preparedness & Consequence Management Programs, Science Applications International Corporation Stacey Arnesen, National Library of Medicine Dr. Renerri Guerra, MD, Director General, International Relations, Istituto Superiore di Sanita Dr. Vittorio Dionori, MD, Science Advisor, Embassy of Italy, Washington, DC Dr. Rashid Chotani, Rashid, Assistant Professor & Director, Global Infectious Diseases Surveillance & Alert System -- Johns Hopkins, University Hospital Dr. James Wilson, MD, Georgetown University Hospital Jennifer Harar, Account Manager for Health and Human Services, ESRI Dr. Nancy Mock, Tulane University Dr. Alfred P. Dufour, PhD, Senior Research Microbiologist, National Exposure Research Laboratory, EPA Dr. Elettra Ronchi, PhD, OECD, Paris, France Basia Tomczyk, RN, MPH, International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, CDC, Atlanta, GA Dr. Keith Carter, MD, MPH, Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief, PAHO Lt. Col. (Dr) Harinder Ratti, DGAFMS, India Karen Becker, DVM, MPH, Special Assistant for International Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, US DHHS James Pearson, DVM, The World Organization for Animal Health (formerly Organization Internationale des Epizooties-World)

Reports and Links:

Archives Interested in SARS, click here to get an update as of April 22 You can also download the first lecture posted on the site. How to Respond to an Anthrax Threat in a Mail Center (332K .pdf) NASA Tracks West Nile Virus List of GDIN DISEASE and COUNTRY Reports. Biological agent fact sheets (CDC): www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Agentlist.asp Biological agent vaccine information, anthrax: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4915a1.htm Biological agent vaccine information, smallpox: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5010a1.htm CDC's Bioterrorism Readiness Plan, A Template for Health Care Facilities: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/Bio/13apr99APIC-CDCBioterrorism.PDF (116K pdf) Emergency Response to Terrorism: Self-Study. Focuses mostly on command and control rather than clinical issues: www.usfa.fema.gov/pdf/ertss.pdf(4.4 MB) PUBLIC HEALTH GIS NEWS AND INFORMATION July 2001 (No. 41) (504K .pdf) WHO SOUTHERN SUDAN HEALTH UPDATE , May, 2001 (28K .pdf) Contagion and Stability, May 15-17, 2001, Agenda (36K .pdf) Contagion and Stability Game, May 15-17, 2001, Team Briefing Slides (96K .pdf) WHO SOUTHERN SUDAN HEALTH UPDATE , April, 2001 (28K .pdf) Robert J. Coullahan GDIN 2001 Presentations, Reports and Summaries: IDWGnotesGDIN01.doc(40K word doc) IDWGsummaryGDIN01.doc(40K word doc) IDWG_CoullahanGDIN01.ppt(356K .ppt doc) IDWG_PPWGreportGDIN01.ppt(184K .ppt doc) IDWG_PPWG_GDIN01.ppt(180K .ppt doc) GDIN 2001 Deliverables International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Nov. 1998, Vol. 16, No.3, pp 375-376 The Consequences of Disasters on Public Health image(300K) MEDSAT Executive Summary by Lev Mukhin(.pdf 8K) MEDSAT Project: prospective pilot project proposal(.pdf 68K) A Framework for Global Outbreak Alert and Response (Word document) Global Outbreak Alert and Reponse Report of a WHO Meeting (Word document) Summary of GAO Report: Global Health: Framework for Infectious Disease Surveillance GDIN Infectious Diseases Concept of Operation Paper Global Emerging Infections System -- GEIS National Center for Infectious Disease -- NCID The Global Infectious Disease Threat and its Implications for the United States -- NIE99-17 Center for Health Applications of Aerospace Related Technologies  -- CHAART Invitation to a Discussion on the possibility of creating an Infectious Disease Working Group under the Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN)