GCEID will focus on three distinct programs within the ‘One Health’ approach:
- Improved understanding of the EID threat through studies in pathogenesis and pathobiology
- Host pathogen interactions and comparative immunology
- Underlying pathogen and host factors that influence emergence and host switching
- Factors governing virulence and host specificity
- Research to mitigate the risks of EID entry and spread through:
- Classical epidemiology including:
- surveillance and detection of known and unknown pathogens
- geographical information systems
- outbreak investigation and modelling
- impact of climate and other ecological changes
- wildlife disease investigations
- Molecular epidemiology
- whole genome/Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and analysis
- transmission and pathway analysis and e.g. virulence or resistance analysis
- Quarantine measures
- Diagnostics including development of tests for field use
- Classical epidemiology including:
- Enhancement of the capabilities to respond to an EID event, to control or eradicate and to provide more efficient and effective means to mitigate established diseases through:
- Enhancing outbreak response capabilities including managing surge capacity
- Therapeutics
- Vaccines
- Modelling and scenario evaluation
- Community and social impact studies
- Economic modelling
- Understanding of virus change and evolution through an outbreak
- Improving and understanding quarantine requirements for e.g. hospital in-patients and staff
- Public health emergency ethics