Public health surveillance is the bedrock of public health practice. The design and implementation of surveillance systems aim to generate timely data of the best quality possible to promote early detection of public health threats, and guide the planning and implementation of interventions.
In the wake of globalization and the ever-worsening trends of emerging and re-emerging diseases, pandemics, and public health disasters, the role of public health surveillance in our shared quest to promoting global health security could not more critical. However, public health interventions are as appropriate as the data are useful; and the data are as useful as the surveillance systems that generate them. Hence, regular surveillance data quality assessment, and holistic evaluation of the operations of public health surveillance systems are vital for assuring the quality of evidence generated and required for the efficient use of resources to keep the population healthy, productive, and wealthy. Useful surveillance systems help to signal health threats and the early detection of outbreaks. A well-trained and equipped multidisciplinary workforce is required to contain, stop, and reduce the risk of outbreaks. Field lessons from outbreak investigations also serve to improve scope, operations, and effectiveness of surveillance systems.
We introduce this Research Topic to provide visibility for best practices in the conduct surveillance and outbreak response. We aim to support the dissemination of high-quality peer-reviewed publications from public health practitioners, policy makers, training institutions, early to mid-career researchers, and residents of field epidemiology and laboratory competency training programs (FELTPs) across the globe.
We invite submissions from, but not limited to the following themes of particular interest:
1. Surveillance system evaluation
2. Surveillance data quality assessment
3. Outbreak investigation and response
4. Digital innovations and applications for disease surveillance and outbreak response
5. Environmental health surveillance and response
6. Public health disaster response
7. National disease program implementation and evaluation
8. Public health project implementation, monitoring and evaluation
Public health surveillance is the bedrock of public health practice. The design and implementation of surveillance systems aim to generate timely data of the best quality possible to promote early detection of public health threats, and guide the planning and implementation of interventions.
In the wake of globalization and the ever-worsening trends of emerging and re-emerging diseases, pandemics, and public health disasters, the role of public health surveillance in our shared quest to promoting global health security could not more critical. However, public health interventions are as appropriate as the data are useful; and the data are as useful as the surveillance systems that generate them. Hence, regular surveillance data quality assessment, and holistic evaluation of the operations of public health surveillance systems are vital for assuring the quality of evidence generated and required for the efficient use of resources to keep the population healthy, productive, and wealthy. Useful surveillance systems help to signal health threats and the early detection of outbreaks. A well-trained and equipped multidisciplinary workforce is required to contain, stop, and reduce the risk of outbreaks. Field lessons from outbreak investigations also serve to improve scope, operations, and effectiveness of surveillance systems.
We introduce this Research Topic to provide visibility for best practices in the conduct surveillance and outbreak response. We aim to support the dissemination of high-quality peer-reviewed publications from public health practitioners, policy makers, training institutions, early to mid-career researchers, and residents of field epidemiology and laboratory competency training programs (FELTPs) across the globe.
We invite submissions from, but not limited to the following themes of particular interest:
1. Surveillance system evaluation
2. Surveillance data quality assessment
3. Outbreak investigation and response
4. Digital innovations and applications for disease surveillance and outbreak response
5. Environmental health surveillance and response
6. Public health disaster response
7. National disease program implementation and evaluation
8. Public health project implementation, monitoring and evaluation