Protecting the public from emerging infectious diseases

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Emerging infectious diseases and pandemics cause potentially enormous but unpredictable health and socioeconomic impacts. This CRE will develop and integrate new technologies, including fingerprinting the entire gene complement of micro-organisms and new electronic communication platforms, to improve the precision and speed of public health responses. We will develop ethics research-based policy frameworks to enable implementation of these technologies into public health practice and policy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 01-01-2021

Funding Scheme: Centres of Research Excellence

Funding Amount: $2,500,000.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

ethics | health informatics | infectious diseases | microbiology | public health