The importance of event-based surveillance for preparedness and response in future respiratory pandemics

Affiliations

• ¹ Medical Epidemiologist, Independent Consultant, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ² Local Health Unit N.2 "Marca Trevigiana", Public Health Department, Treviso, Italy.
• ³ Department of Sensorineural Disabilities, INAPP/Italian Institute of Social Medicine, Rome, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Surgical Medical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, School of Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
• ⁵ University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
• ⁶ Microbiology Department, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.