Public–private partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)

Louise S Greshama
Leslie A Pray
Suwit Wibulpolprasert
Beverly Trayner

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5912/jcb458

Abstract:

We describe a new trust-based global health security initiative known as CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance. Initiated and managed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative with support of The Rockefeller Foundation, Fondation Mérieux and the Skoll Global Threats Fund. CORDS is a non-governmental platform to transform dialogue among public health, veterinary and wildlife professionals from multi-country infectious disease surveillance networks. It also links with the World Health Organization, World Organization for Animal Health and other global partners in managing cross-border emerging infectious disease threats and building disease surveillance capacity. The public–private partnerships of CORDS create a global social fabric and continuity of disease experts based upon trust.

Keywords:disease surveillance ,global networks ,public health security ,public-private partnerships ,en ,