Disease surveillance for the COVID-19 era: time for bold changes

Affiliations

¹ Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment, WHO, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. Electronic address: omorgan@who.int.
² Center for Epidemiology and Health Policy, Universidad del Desarrollo Chile, Santiago, Chile.
³ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden.
⁴ Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁵ Emergency Response, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Resolve to Save Lives, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁹ Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Osong-eup, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea.
¹⁰ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
¹¹ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹² Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
¹³ Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁴ US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
¹⁵ Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Oliver W Morgan et al. Lancet. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 19;397(10292):2317-2319.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01096-5. Epub 2021 May 14.

¹ Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment, WHO, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. Electronic address: omorgan@who.int.
² Center for Epidemiology and Health Policy, Universidad del Desarrollo Chile, Santiago, Chile.
³ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden.
⁴ Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁵ Emergency Response, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Resolve to Save Lives, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁹ Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Osong-eup, Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea.
¹⁰ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
¹¹ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹² Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
¹³ Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁴ US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
¹⁵ Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.

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