Sentences with phrase «disease surveillance efforts»

Genomics has a crucial role to play in disease surveillance efforts by helping to understand the origins of drug resistance, mapping hotspots and routes of spread, and providing a cost effective and rapid means of monitoring and evaluating the impact of different interventions.

The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.

Not exact matches

One of Ernst's major public - facing efforts for the past several years has been partnering with the Centers for Disease Control to develop Kidenga, a community - based surveillance mobile app to help detect mosquito - borne disease in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California, and provide users with the latest information on theiDisease Control to develop Kidenga, a community - based surveillance mobile app to help detect mosquito - borne disease in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California, and provide users with the latest information on theidisease in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California, and provide users with the latest information on their area.

«Our hope is that these efforts will democratize the surveillance and investigation of infectious diseases.»

She has contributed to widely varying fields — such as viral sequencing, information theory, rural disease surveillance, and education efforts in West Africa — to create comprehensive approaches for detecting, containing, and treating deadly infectious diseases.

Their four - year efforts have made very significant progress in breeding for durable resistance against blast in rice varieties that are adapted for Africa, have set the stage for continental surveillance of the disease, and developed a robust collection of resources for outreach and awareness creation.

This type of genomic surveillance can provide crucial insights to disease control efforts, while also generating data of fundamental scientific interest, such as potential drug and vaccine targets.

Routine surveillance of animals may also directly benefit both wildlife conservation efforts and human health by providing sentinels for diseases of harm to humans.

Each year, the FDA, World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health experts collaborate on the review of influenza disease surveillance and laboratory data collected from around the world in an effort to identify strains that may cause the most illness in the upcoming Disease Control and Prevention and other public health experts collaborate on the review of influenza disease surveillance and laboratory data collected from around the world in an effort to identify strains that may cause the most illness in the upcoming disease surveillance and laboratory data collected from around the world in an effort to identify strains that may cause the most illness in the upcoming season.