Sentences with phrase «time public health response»

The research is the first of its kind to demonstrate that genomic analysis can be used to determine when a TB outbreak has ended — valuable knowledge which can assist public health investigators understand an outbreak's dynamics and guide a real - time public health response.

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So what lessons can public health authorities around the world take away from this episode to ensure that, next time, our global response — and yes, it needs to be a global response — is better and quicker?

Our coordinated response brought stakeholders from across the community together to address the public health crisis of our time.

Aayushi Pratap, a health correspondent with Hindustan Times, focuses her reporting on India's governmental and social responses to pressing public health issues facing the country.

The results from the study could be used to help public health officials to plan a more effective response to future pandemics, such as rolling out vaccines at a much earlier time and targeting specific types of vaccines at different age groups.

Google Flu Trends is updated daily, and according to data from the 2007 — 2008 flu season, it can bridge the CDC's two - week lag, potentially buying officials critical extra time to devise a public health response and curtail the virus's spread.

This lead time can give public health officials more time to develop an effective response to the outbreak.

But in West Africa and other areas where public health resources and even basic infrastructure are limited, real - time genome sequencing and analysis can speed the response by telling health officials where to initiate contact tracing, add hospital beds, quarantine those infected and implement other infection controls.