Fall 2016, Issue 23 Updates from the Field: Using Systems to Save Lives

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 Keeping the world safe from diseases requires the right people, surveillance, labs, public health organizations—and a way to manage and integrate these elements—into effective systems. In this issue of Updates from the Field, you will learn about these systems, and how they contribute to a critical public health platform. CDC and host country ministries are strengthening systems to prevent, detect, and respond to emerging disease threats quickly to prevent an epidemic. 

Updates from the Field…Protecting Health and Building Capacity Globally

A quarterly newsletter from CDC Center for Global Health, Division of Global Health Protection.

Fall 2016, Issue 23:

Using Systems to Save Lives

Keeping the world safe from diseases requires the right people, surveillance, labs, public health organizations—and a way to manage and integrate these elements—into effective systems. In this issue of Updates from the Field, you will learn about these systems, and how they contribute to a critical public health platform. CDC and host country ministries are strengthening systems to prevent, detect, and respond to emerging disease threats quickly to prevent an epidemic.

In This Issue

Response Systems

• Using Systems to Save Lives
• Early Warning Alert and Response Network
• Public Health Emergency Management Systems

Laboratory Systems

• Laboratory Innovation In Thailand
• Decentralizing and Strengthening Egypt's Surveillance Lab System

Surveillance Systems

• Improving National Surveillance and Response Systems

Health Systems Strengthening

• NPHI Investments Helped Colombia Prepare for Zika
• Hypertension Control in Barbados
• A One Health Approach

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