- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
World Health Organization
2023-2024
On 31 December 2019, the Municipal Health Commission of Wuhan, China, reported a cluster atypical pneumonia cases. 5 January 2020, WHO publicly released Disease Outbreak News (DON) report, providing information about cases, implemented response interventions, and WHO’s risk assessment advice on public health social measures. Following 9 additional DON reports 209 daily situation reports, 17 August published first edition COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update (WEU). 1 September 2023, 158th...
WHO works, on a daily basis, with countries globally to detect, prepare for and respond acute public health events. A vital component of response is the dissemination accurate, reliable authoritative information. The Disease Outbreak News (DON) reports are key mechanism through which communicates events public. decision produce DON report taken case-by-case basis after evaluating criteria, subsequent process producing highly standardised ensure robustness have been published since 1996, up...
Objective: This study assessed the countries’ readiness to prevent, detect, respond and recover from cholera outbreaks.