ISGP Podcast: Harry Potter and the Surveillance Harrows

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Is “syndromic surveillance” a reliable and cost-effective way to prevent global disease outbreaks? Such monitoring is done without lab testing, relying instead on factors such as environmental indicators.   Debaters sorted through the decidedly mixed pros and cons of such a system in the debate of the paper Novel Surveillance Systems: Good Value for Money Spent? by Dr. Arthur Reingold, professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Associate Dean of Research at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.

Dr. Reingold presented his paper at the ISGP conference Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases: Focus on Surveillance, convened in Warrenton, Virginia, U.S.,  Oct. 17-20, 2010.

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