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Proceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Feb, 2015;103 (2): 263-272.

Engineering a Global Response to Infectious Diseases: This paper presents a more robust, adaptable, and scalable engineering infrastructure to improve the capability to respond to infectious diseases. Contributed Paper.

J Patrick Fitch
Author Information
  1. J Patrick Fitch: NBACC-BNBIFort Detrick MD21702.
PMID: 34191866 DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2015.2389146

Abstract

Infectious diseases are a major cause of death and economic impact worldwide. A more robust, adaptable, and scalable infrastructure would improve the capability to respond to epidemics. Because engineers contribute to the design and implementation of infrastructure, there are opportunities for innovative solutions to infectious disease response within existing systems that have utility, and therefore resources, before a public health emergency. Examples of innovative leveraging of infrastructure, technologies to enhance existing disease management strategies, engineering approaches to accelerate the rate of discovery and application of scientific, clinical, and public health information, and ethical issues that need to be addressed for implementation are presented.

Keywords

Bioinformatics disease epidemic genomics infectious pathogen

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