Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Health Security Workforce Investment Design: March 2019 to March 2023

05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Australian Government. Published: 5/2019. This 58-page document is a design and plan for targeted public health workforce development activities as part of work delivered by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security. A particular focus is strengthening human resources for field epidemiology for deployment in both “peacetime” and outbreak management situations, with smaller inputs aimed at building public health leadership and the capacity of regional networks and institutions to discharge key public health functions. (PDF)

Health Security Initiative for the Indo-Pacific Region: Provisional Strategic Framework 2019-22

04/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Australian Government. Published: 4/2019. This 16-page Strategic Framework guides the investment of resources and a linked suite of programs under the Australian Government’s Health Security Initiative for the Indo-Pacific region. The goal of the initiative is to contribute to the avoidance and containment of infectious disease threats with the potential to cause social and economic harm on a national, regional, or global scale. (PDF)

Surveillance Report: West Nile Virus Infection; Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016

03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 3/2019. This six-page report on cases of West Nile virus infection is based on data for 2016 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on December 10, 2018. For 2016, seven European Union/European Economic Area Member States reported 238 West Nile virus infections, of which 224 (94 percent) were locally acquired, and 14 were travel-related. Most locally acquired cases were reported by Romania and Italy. (PDF)

Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security Consultative Design Workshops

01/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Australian Government. Published: 1/2019. The Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security convened a series of domestic consultative workshops between October and December 2018, with the aim of informing the design of future health security assistance programs, and strengthening networks between key Australian experts in health security. This 39-page report provides a summary of common outcomes from across all the workshops, as well as a specific summary of each individual workshop. (PDF)

Report of Health Security Scoping Mission in Southeast Asia

11/08/2018 12:00 AM EST

Source: Australian Government. Published: 11/8/2018. This 46-page report informs the design of country partnership programs under Australia’s Health Security Initiative for the Indo-Pacific region, to strengthen health systems and improve health security in Southeast Asia. It identifies partner government and stakeholder priorities; assesses countries’ strengths, challenges, plans, and partnerships for strengthening health security; and makes independent, evidence-based recommendations for potential areas of Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) investment in the region. (PDF)

Surveillance Report: Yellow Fever; Annual Epidemiological Report for 2016

10/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 10/2018. This two-page report on yellow fever is based on data for 2016 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on April 4, 2018. In 2016, there were no reported cases of yellow fever in European Union/European Economic Area countries. (PDF)

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Fact Sheet, 2002-2003

08/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Australian Government. Published: 8/2018. This two-page fact sheet provides information about the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak from November 2002-July 2003, its symptoms, and countries where the majority of cases occurred. It details the international response, and lessons learned highlighted by the outbreak. (PDF)