Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response

Will be published in January 2025. Pre-order now!

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Dale Fisher (chief editor)

For too long, the theory and practice of infectious disease outbreak response has been the domain of a small number of experienced responders. The COVID-19 pandemic brought global attention to the requirements of effective outbreak response, and the need for preparation across the key pillars. Decisionmakers, early career practitioners and those in the field now have access to a comprehensive text that brings together evidence based and practical insights from the best in the business.

Dale Fisher, Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, was chair of WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network prior to and throughout most of the pandemic. In this massive collaborative effort, he marshals nearly 100 top public health leaders and experts from the front lines to present 39 chapters on pandemic preparedness and response, drawing heavily on experiences from COVID-19, as well as from Ebola, MERS, SARS-1, influenza and other outbreaks of modern times. The contributors include experts from health ministries and Centres for Disease Control and national public health institutions around the world, from international organizations like the WHO, MSF, IFRC and UNICEF and from research institutions and various NGOs from dozens of countries, adding to the diversity and richness of the descriptions.

The book can be used as a reference or as a textbook, where each chapter describes the features of outbreak preparedness, including field epidemiology, risk communications, managing health services in a pandemic, vaccine management, leadership, contact tracing and laboratory management and testing amongst others.

Dale Fisher is Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore and is Group Chief of Medicine at National University Health Systems. He has been on many WHO international missions including for Ebola, Influenza and in Feb 2020 to China for the initial investigation of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Publication Year: 2025
Hardback
600pp / 254 x 178mm
150 charts and figures
ISBN: 978-981-325-247-9