Description
The Global Early Warning and Response System (GLEWS) is a joint system
that builds on the added value of combining and coordinating the alert and
response mechanisms of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World
Health Organization (WHO) for the international community and stakeholders
to assist in prediction, prevention and control of animal disease threats,
including zoonoses, through sharing of information, epidemiological analysis
and joint field missions to assess and control the outbreak, whenever needed.
The three organizations use complementary and partly overlapping sources of
information to identify infectious disease events.
Purpose
The overall aim of GLEWS is to improve the early warning and response
capacity to animal disease threats of the three sister organizations for the benefit
of the international community.
Scope Global
Primary Funders
See participants and key collaborators.
Participants & Key Collaborators
OIE, FAO, WHO
.
Definition of One Health
None. GLEWS is based on the idea that infection does not recognize
geographical nor species borders. For its zoonotic component it takes a stand in
the shift in paradigm from independence to interdependence of agencies and
professions involved in zoonotic control.
Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy
(unknown)
Sources of Information
Website: http://www.glews.net
Contact zoonotic_alert@who.int
