Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases:
Focus on Surveillance**

Executive summary
 

• Introduction: Institute on Science for Global Policy (ISGP)
  Dr. George H. Atkinson, Executive Director, ISGP and Professor, University of Arizona
  
  

• Conference conclusions: Areas of consensus and Actionable next steps
  
  
• Conference program
  
   
• Conference Announcement

   

Policy position papers and debate summaries

• Early Warning: The Necessary Beginning
  Prof. Stephen S. Morse, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University
  
  

• Emerging Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century: A Threat to Global Economic Security
  Dr. Duane J. Gubler, Duke University, National University of Singapore and University of Hawaii
  
  

• The Transition from Pandemic Response to Pandemic Prevention
  Dr. Nathan Wolfe, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative and Stanford University; Presented by Dr. Travis Taylor, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
  

• Novel Surveillance Systems:  Good Value for the Money Spent?
  Prof. Arthur L. Reingold, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
  
  

• Integrating Climate Information into Surveillance Systems for Infectious Diseases: New Opportunities for Improved Public Health Outcomes in a Changing Climate
  Drs. Madeleine C. Thomson and Gilma C. Mantilla, International Research Institute for Climate and Society,  Columbia  University
  

• Whither Surveillance?
  Prof. Kennedy F. Shortridge, Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong
  
  

• Role of Attribution in Global Food Surveillance
  Dr. Robert E. Brackett, National Center for Food Safety and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology
  
  

• Surveillance for Livestock Diseases That Impact Food Security and Food Safety
  Dr. Radford Davis, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University