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Year of Publication: 2014
Publication City: Washington, DC
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Author(s): Institute of Medicine (IOM), Eileen R. Choffnes, Alison Mack
Workshop Summary
“Understanding how environmental factors directly and indirectly affect the emergence and spread of infectious disease has assumed global importance for life on this planet. While the causal links between environmental change and disease emergence are complex, progress in understanding these links, as well as how their impacts may vary across space and time, will require transdisciplinary, transnational, collaborative research. This research may draw on the expertise, tools, and approaches from a variety of disciplines. Such research may inform improvements in global readiness and capacity for surveillance, detection, and response to emerging microbial threats to plant, animal, and human health.”
Image from report cover showing emerging and re-emerging disease location data adapted from Morens et al. 2008
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