Nordic Geospatial Blog –

Use of mobile phones in an emergency reporting system for infectious disease surveillance after the Sichuan earthquake in China

Risk and outbreak communication: lessons from alternative paradigms

What social media offers to health professionals and citizens

In the wake of the global H1N1 pandemic, this global meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO – OMS) in Geneva was very informative.

Overview – http://www.who.int/countryfocus/fifthglobalhwcomeeting/en/index.html

Video press conference by the WHO Director General, Dr. Margaret Chan – June 11, 2009

Overview of WHO Global Alert and Response (GAR) and Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN)