About this Research Topic
The world is facing the increase in vaccine-preventable diseases, accelerated by climate change, natural disasters, and economic crises which also fuel further pandemic outbreaks. Healthcare systems and associated infrastructure are still weak and limited in their capacity for infectious disease surveillance and disease outbreak alert systems which leads to fatal outcomes especially in the most vulnerable settings. The COVID-19-pandemic has further highlighted existing challenges for a coordinated disease response at global, national, and regional level, the limited access to healthcare, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), and the inequalities in vaccine development and vaccine distribution.
The disproportionate burden of the effects of climate change and economic crisis on LMIC calls for new approaches to the surveillance of infectious diseases, particularly with relevance to outbreak response and pandemic preparedness.
We seek original articles, systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses, and commentaries focusing on critical assessments of systemic gaps and potential solutions, and planned or implemented projects/efforts that can inform such new strategies. This could include comprehensive and holistic surveillance systems, such as community-based infectious disease surveillance, environmental sampling at strategic sentinel points, and/or health programs built into existing networks and platforms in-country that are promising to build resilience and sustainability, particularly in LMIC.
We are interested in receiving manuscripts that relate to vaccine-preventable (infectious) diseases and one or more of the following themes:
- Equitable access to and distribution of vaccine supply
- Environmental sampling (including soil, water and sewage)
- Equitable access to health care (including landscape analysis, reviews, lesson learned articles)
- Surveillance and outbreak response related to natural disaster.
- Surveillance and outbreak response related to economic crisis.
We strongly encourage submissions where the first and/or last author are researchers from LMIC. We also recommend early career researchers to team up with senior colleagues.
The disproportionate burden of the effects of climate change and economic crisis on LMIC calls for new approaches to the surveillance of infectious diseases, particularly with relevance to outbreak response and pandemic preparedness.
We seek original articles, systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses, and commentaries focusing on critical assessments of systemic gaps and potential solutions, and planned or implemented projects/efforts that can inform such new strategies. This could include comprehensive and holistic surveillance systems, such as community-based infectious disease surveillance, environmental sampling at strategic sentinel points, and/or health programs built into existing networks and platforms in-country that are promising to build resilience and sustainability, particularly in LMIC.
We are interested in receiving manuscripts that relate to vaccine-preventable (infectious) diseases and one or more of the following themes:
- Equitable access to and distribution of vaccine supply
- Environmental sampling (including soil, water and sewage)
- Equitable access to health care (including landscape analysis, reviews, lesson learned articles)
- Surveillance and outbreak response related to natural disaster.
- Surveillance and outbreak response related to economic crisis.
We strongly encourage submissions where the first and/or last author are researchers from LMIC. We also recommend early career researchers to team up with senior colleagues.
Keywords: Vaccine-preventable disease, infectious disease, surveillance, health care, climate change, pandemic preparedness, outbreak response, equitable vaccine supply, global equity, medical care equity
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