Emerging disease surveillance and response

Publications and documents

2012

Securing Regional Health through APSED
Building sustainable capacity for managing emerging diseases
and public health events
Revised Edition November 2012

Public Health Laboratories for Alert and Response
A WHO guidance document
2012

International Health Regulations (2005): A guide for public health emergency contingency planning at designated points of entry
March 2012

Recent publications

Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases (2010)
2011

Action Against Dengue
Dengue Day Campaigns Across Asia
2011

Securing our Region's Health: Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases
2010

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response
WHO guidance document
2009

A Practical Guide for Designing and Conducting Influenza Disease Burden Studies
2008

A Guide to Clinical Management and Public Health Response for
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD)
2011

APSED and Beyond in the Western Pacific Region
2011

APSED (2010) Technical Papers
2010

A Guide to Establishing Event-based Surveillance
2008

International Health Regulations (2005)
Second edition
2008

more publications

Quick links

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal (WPSAR)
Article on Human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus

WPSAR homepage

Meeting reports

Second Meeting of the Asia Pacific Technical Advisory Group on the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases (2010)

meeting reports archive

Contact us

World Health Organization
Western Pacific Regional Office
P.O. Box 2932
1000 Manila
Philippines
Email: outbreak@wpro.who.int