2012-05-24T14:56:20Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/biosurveillance.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200108.html Jun 1, 2012 Jun 1, 2012

This study suggests four timely US actions to address today's competing realities of globalization and economic austerity: raise awareness among clinicians and local health departments; capture and share exemplary disaster management practices across countries; ensure that US global health investments are effective, efficient, and sustainable; and think globally while acting locally to enhance US health security.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100147.html Dec 31, 2010 Dec 31, 2010

Large local health departments could better inform planning and investments by using geographic information systems to align community needs and health outcomes with public health programs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000198.html Jun 30, 2010 Jun 30, 2010

Using surveillance data, researchers identified neighborhoods in a Georgia county with a persistently high incidence of cardiac arrest and low rates of bystander CPR. Such neighborhoods are promising targets for community-based interventions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100174.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

This article describes an evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative, a federal program to improve communities' ability to dispense medications rapidly during emergencies.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100129.html Dec 31, 2009 Dec 31, 2009

This paper describes an expert panel process that identified a set of fundable and practically feasible research priorities in the field of syndromic surveillance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080902.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>Health departments can achieve optimal performance by consistently connecting a caller with an action officer in 30 minutes or less and may improve performance by using a disease surveillance phone system in which a live person answers at all times.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081106.html Dec 31, 2007 Dec 31, 2007

<p>The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 present a challenge and opportunity for global surveillance and control of infectious diseases.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050323.html Mar 31, 2005 Mar 31, 2005

Public health officials have been quick to adopt this new tool for identifying emerging problems, but research is needed to assess its effectiveness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9042.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

To aid the early detection of bioterror events, public health officials and researchers have developed a new method called syndromic surveillance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040001.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>Unlike bombings, bioterrorism can be invisible, unapparent until people become ill, spreading silently as infected people interact with others.</p>

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2001/02/04/WP.html Feb 4, 2001 Feb 4, 2001

Published commentary by RAND staff.

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<em>Associate Director for Global Public Health, Global Health Initiative, RAND Health; Senior Natural Scientist</em><br>M.D., Harvard Medical School; M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health