Abstract
Abstract Capacity to receive, verify, analyze, assess, and investigate public health events is essential for epidemic intelligence. Public health Emergency Operations Centers (PHEOCs) can be epidemic intelligence hubs by 1) having the capacity to receive, analyze, and visualize multiple data streams, including surveillance and 2) maintaining a trained workforce that can analyze and interpret data from real-time emerging events. Such PHEOCs could be physically located within a ministry of health epidemiology, surveillance, or equivalent department rather than exist as a stand-alone space and serve as operational hubs during nonoutbreak times but in emergencies can scale up according to the traditional Incident Command System structure.
Highlights
Every country needs a system for responding to emergencies and managing emergency response
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a 24,000-square-foot Public health EOCs (PHEOCs) staffed by trained personnel 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, on CDC’s main campus in Atlanta, Georgia [1]
The CDC PHEOC may be notified about potential public health threats through its watch desk, which receives calls primarily from clinicians and other state and local entities, including PHEOCs
Summary
Every country needs a system for responding to emergencies and managing emergency response. The CDC PHEOC conducts surveillance on a global scale, whereas some countries may prioritize a more regional or national focus and might not have the ability or the need to scale up human and technical resources to tackle public health threats on the international stage.
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