Disease surveillance : technological contributions to global health security / edited by David L. Blazes, MD, MPH, Professor, Tropical Public Health and Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Sheri H. Lewis, MPH, Global Health Surveillance Program Manager, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), Laurel, Maryland, USA.

Part 1 : Disease surveillance concepts. Introduction to electronic disease surveillance
International health regulations :
Public health surveillance system considerations
Surveillance challenges in resource-limited settings
The role and functional components of statistical alerting methods for biosurveillance
Effective public health data visualization
Part 2 : Disease surveillance practice. The international health regulations in practice : surveillance and a global community seeking health security
Possible solutions for sustainable surveillance systems
Health and its role in disease surveillance
Global health and open source software (OSS) : an example of legal considerations impacting technology and global health policy implementation Role of mass gathering surveillance
Promising advances in surveillance technology for global health security

Includes bibliographical references and index.