A pandemic early detection system could enable “faster responses in public health, medicine and government,” he says. Li, Noymer and principal investigator Wei Wang, a UCLA professor of computer ...

Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Can Twitter be used to detect pandemics before they take off? To find out, researchers at UCI and UCLA are sifting through millions of tweets (and other data) from the ...

“A Global Early Warning System for Pandemics: A Blueprint for Coordination” is co-authored by Esther Krofah, Sung Hee Choe, Alisha Sud, and Anna DeGarmo. The full report can be accessed here.

USAID already manages a rapid response mechanism for disasters. A certain amount of redundancy between national governments and international organizations in pandemic early warning and response ...

Building blocks of an early warning system for the next pandemic: Analysis We need an "outbreak NORAD" to detect, validate and warn of incoming pathogens.

Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) organisms could be a major threat to humans in the future, but airplane lavatories could be a ...

Indeed, the Trump administration actually cut off funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s pandemic early warning system, known as “PREDICT,” just months before the first ...

"We continue to be bombarded by novel animal pathogens. Monitoring of people, animals and animal die-offs would serve as an early warning system for disease emergence," Wolfe said.

Pandemic pushes red flags beyond the ‘ABCs’ Academic early-warning systems evolved in large part from work at Johns Hopkins and the Chicago consortium.

Indeed, the Trump administration actually cut off funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s pandemic early warning system, known as “PREDICT,” just months before the first ...