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Foresight China II: Identification and Detection of Infectious Diseases

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Biosurveillance and Biosecurity (BioSecure 2008)

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With the growing threat of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, which spread more easily and quickly worldwide resulted from the globalization, it is necessary to be capable to forecast significant changes of infectious diseases for emergency preparation purpose. Foresight China Project aims at exploring a new method by identifying the drivers of infectious diseases and predicting the trends of these drivers.

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  1. Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

    Jiayuan Feng & Jianshi (Jesse) Huang

  2. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Health Protection Agency, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

    Angus Nicoll

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  1. MIS Department, University of Arizona and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel Zeng

  2. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  3. US CDC, National Center for Public Health Informatics, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Henry Rolka

  4. University of Washington, Health Sciences Building, 1959 NE Pacific St., WA 98195, Seattle, USA

    Bill Lober

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Feng, J., Huang, J.(., Nicoll, A. (2008). Foresight China II: Identification and Detection of Infectious Diseases. In: Zeng, D., Chen, H., Rolka, H., Lober, B. (eds) Biosurveillance and Biosecurity . BioSecure 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5354. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89746-0_4

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