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Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) is a global non-governmental organization (NGO) and research network operating under the World Health Organization (WHO).

History

GOARN was established in April 2000 at a meeting convened by the World Health Organization.1)

Organization

Partners

Partner institutions of GOARN include:2)

  • Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • African Coalition for Epidemic Research, Response and Training (ALERRT)
  • African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET)
  • Aix-Marseille University
  • American University of Beirut Medical Center
  • Amref Health Africa
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
  • APEC Emerging Infections Network (EINET)
  • ARM Network (Australian Response MAE Network)
  • Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch (AFHSB)
  • Armed Forces Research Institute for Medical Sciences (AFRIMS)
  • Association of Asia Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS)
  • Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA)
  • Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
  • Association pour le développement de l’épidémiologie de terrain (EPITER)
  • Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control (ACIPC), formerly AICA
  • Australian National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)
  • Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
  • Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology
  • Bureau of Epidemiology, Surveillance and Response Unit, Ministry of Health Thailand
  • Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
  • Cambridge Infectious Diseases
  • Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
  • CDC Egypt Country Office- NAMRU-3
  • Center for Communicable Diseases Control (CDC) Iran, Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOH&ME)
  • Center for Emerging Viral Diseases, HUG
  • Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University
  • Center for Infectious Diseases, Nara Medical University
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University
  • Centre d’épidémiologie et de santé publique des armées (CESPA)
  • Centre for Applied Molecular Technologies (CTMA)
  • Centre for Health Crises, Karolinska Institutet
  • Centre for Health Protection (CHP), Department of Health
  • Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF)
  • Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine (CNTS) - Burkina Faso
  • Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social, Guatemala
  • Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
  • Charité University Clinics
  • Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, (China CDC)
  • Cho Ray hospital (CRH)
  • Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases
  • Collaborative for the Advancement of Infection Prevention and Control (CAIPC)
  • College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University
  • CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
  • Dengue Unit, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health (QSNICH)
  • Department of Public Health, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine
  • Department of Virology, Tohoku University, School of Medicine
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH - SEEG
  • Dirección General de Epidemiología, Subsecretaría de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud, Secretaría de Salud, México
  • Direction of Epidemiology and Health Information, Ministry of Health Djibouti
  • Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health Oman
  • Directory of Epidemiology and Control Diseases (DELM) /MOH Morocco
  • Division des laboratoires - Ministère de la Santé et de la Protection Sociale
  • Division of Tuberculosis and Infectious Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
  • Doctors Without Borders - Australia (MSF)
  • Doherty Institute
  • East African Integrated Disease Surveillance (EAIDSNet), National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR)
  • Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET)
  • Emergency Medical Teams
  • Emory Eye Center
  • Empower School of Health
  • EPICENTRE
  • Epidemic Surveillance and Response Division, Rwanda Biomedical Centre
  • Epidemiology Bureau, Department of Health, Philippines
  • Epidemiology Intelligence Program (EIP), Malaysia
  • EPIET Alumni Network (EAN)
  • Erasmus MC
  • Etablissement de Préparation et de Réponse aux Urgences Sanitaires (EPRUS)
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
  • European Mobile Laboratory (EMLab)
  • European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET)
  • European Virus Archive goes Global (EVAg)
  • Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University of Technology
  • Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
  • Faculty of Public Health - Lebanese University
  • Federal Public Service - Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment (FPS)
  • Federal University Oye Ekiti
  • Field Epidemiology Training Programme – Papua New Guinea (FETP- PNG)
  • FIND
  • Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut – Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI)
  • German Armed Forces Medical Service, GER Ministry of Defence
  • Global Virus Network
  • GOARN Secretariat
  • Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)
  • Health Emergency Operation Center (HEOC) , Nepal
  • Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP)
  • Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC)
  • Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control
  • Hunter New England Health
  • Indonesia Epidemiological Association (IEA-PAEI)
  • Indonesia PHEOC / FETP
  • Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN)
  • Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO)
  • Inserm - European Union West Africa Mobile Lab (EUWAM Lab)
  • Inserm - REACTing
  • Institut fuer Virologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  • Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB)
  • Institut National d'Hygiène
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Algeria
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Bangui
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Cambodia
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Cote d'Ivoire
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Dakar
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Guyane
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), International
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Lyon
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Morocco
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Nouvelle-Calédonie
  • Institut Pasteur (IP), Tunis
  • Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Institute de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)
  • Institute for Glycomics - Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland
  • Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR)
  • Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR)
  • Institute of Health and Community Medicine (IHCM) Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
  • Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
  • Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM)
  • Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • Institute of Virology, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Virology, Charité Berlin
  • Institute Pasteur (IP), Iran
  • Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
  • Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC)
  • Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas J.MAIZTEGUI (INEVH)
  • Instituto Nacional de Salud (NIH Peru)
  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
  • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  • International Council of Nurses (ICN)
  • International Epidemiological Association (IEA)
  • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
  • International FETP, Thailand
  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • International Rescue Committee (IRC)
  • International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC)
  • Israeli Medical Association (IMA)
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS)
  • Japan Disaster Relief Team (JDR), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  • Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center
  • Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. Headquarters Berlin
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Jordan Food and Drug Administration
  • JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine
  • Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
  • King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs
  • KIT Royal Tropical Institute
  • Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA)
  • KU Leuven
  • Kurume University
  • Laboratory P4 Inserm Jean Merieux
  • Laval University
  • Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
  • Manipal Institute of Virology
  • Médecins Sans Frontières - Belgium (MSF Belgium)
  • Médecins Sans Frontières - France (MSF France)
  • Médecins Sans Frontières - Holland (MSF Holland)
  • Médecins Sans Frontières - International Office (MSF)
  • Médecins Sans Frontières - Spain (MSF Spain)
  • Medecins Sans Frontieres - Switzerland (MSF Switzerland)
  • Medical Mission Institute, Department of Tropical Medicine
  • Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health
  • Mediterranean and Black Sea Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (MediPIET)
  • Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS)
  • Merieux Fondation
  • Mie National Hospital
  • Ministry of Health and Population, Central African Republic
  • Ministry of Health and Prevention United Arab Emirates, Emergency - Crisis - Disaster Operations Center
  • Ministry of Health Portugal, Office of the Director General of Health
  • Ministry of Health Sudan, National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL)
  • Ministry of Health, Consumers and Social Welfare, Spain
  • Ministry of Health, Singapore
  • Ministry of Public Health, Lebanon
  • MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
  • MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London
  • Museum national d histoire naturelle (MNHN)
  • mWater
  • National Agency for Public Health (NAPH), Moldova
  • National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan
  • National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), India
  • National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), The Australian National University (ANU)
  • National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
  • National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC)
  • National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), South Africa
  • National institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
  • National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani (INMI)
  • National Institute of Health - NIH Pakistan
  • National Institute of Health Dr Ricardo Jorge (NIH Portugal)
  • National Institute of High Security Animal Disease, Bhopal, India
  • National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE)
  • National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID)
  • National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene, Poland (PZH)
  • National Institute of Virology (NIV), India
  • National Public Health Laboratory, Nepal
  • National School of Public Health, Greece
  • National University of Ireland, Galway
  • National University of Singapore (NUS)
  • Naval Medical Research Unit, NAMRU-3
  • New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)
  • Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
  • Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
  • Norwegian National Unit for CBRNE Medicine at Oslo University Hospital
  • Office of Health Protection, Department of Health (DOHA)
  • One Health
  • One Health European Joint Programme (One Health EJP)
  • One Health Institute, University of California, Davis
  • Osaka University
  • Our Lady of Snow Medical Juridical Corporation St. Marys Hospital
  • Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)
  • Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNG IMR)
  • Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City
  • Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang
  • PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA
  • Population Council Institute
  • Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)
  • ProEpi
  • Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
  • ProMED
  • Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
  • Public Health Agency of Sweden
  • RCCE Collective Service
  • Regional Center of Disease Surveillance and Control, WAHO
  • Reseau des Experts Sanitaires des Eaux (RESEaux)
  • Resolve to Save Lives
  • RIVM, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
  • Robert Koch Institut (RKI)
  • Rospotrebnadzor
  • Samaritan’s Purse International
  • Santé publique France
  • Save the Children International
  • School of Medicine, Niigata University
  • School of Population Health, UNSW Medicine
  • Scientific Institute of Public Health Belgium
  • Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
  • Singapore General Hospital
  • South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA)
  • Spiez Laboratory, Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP)
  • Statens Serum Institut (SSI)
  • Stavropol Antiplague Research Institute
  • Sukra Raj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital
  • Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
  • Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
  • Tan Tock Seng Hospital
  • Tay Nguyen Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (TIHE), Vietnam
  • The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • The INCLEN Trust International
  • The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
  • The University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia
  • The University of the West Indies
  • The University of Western Australia
  • Toshima Hospital
  • Training Programmes in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET)
  • Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
  • U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
  • UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
  • UK Public Health Rapid Support Team
  • United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)
  • United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  • United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • University Hospital Düsseldorf
  • University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine (HUG)
  • University of Hong Kong
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
  • University of Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases
  • University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
  • University of Warwick
  • Westmead Hospital
  • WHO Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health
  • WHO Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases
  • WHO Emerging and Dangerous Pathogens Laboratory Network (EDPLN)
  • WHO EPI Essential Programme on Immunization
  • WHO Epidemic Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN)
  • WHO Global Infection Prevention and Control Network (GIPCN)
  • WHO Information Management and Technology
  • WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO)
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe (EURO)
  • WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO)
  • WHO Regional Office for the Americas (AMRO)
  • WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)
  • WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)
  • WHO The International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN)
  • WHO Virtual Interdisciplinary Advisory Group on Mass Gathering
  • WHO WHE Country Health Emergency Preparedness & IHR (CPI)
  • WHO WHE Emergency Response (WRE)
  • WHO WHE Executive Director Office
  • WHO WHE Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC)
  • WHO WHE Health Emergency Information & Risk Assessment (HIM)
  • WHO WHE Infectious Hazard Management (IHM)
  • WHO WHE Management & Administration (MGA)
  • WHO WHE Operations Support and Logistics
  • World Health Organization Staff Health & Wellbeing Services (SHW)
  • World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
1)
Mackenzie, J. S., Drury, P., Arthur, R. R., Ryan, M. J., Grein, T., Slattery, R., Suri, S., Domingo, C. T., & Bejtullahu, A. (2014). The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. Global Public Health, 9(9), 1023–1039. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.951870
2)
About Us. GOARN. Retrieved March 14, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230314222154/https://goarn.who.int/#aboutus
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