Fostering cross-community collaboration to advance pandemic and epidemic intelligence
Julia Fitzner, Barbara Tornimbene, Hugo Gruson, Adam Kucharski, Kevin J Olival, Chloe Rice, Lisa Waddell · 2026
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Julia Fitzner and six colleagues report on a World Health Organization forum session about joining forces across groups that track outbreaks. The session looked at the Collaboratory, a WHO digital hub linking more than seventeen practice communities. Talks covered shared tools: a global store of outbreak parameters, AI aided pipelines for sorting research findings, an outbreak analysis toolkit, and smarter search for resources.
Panelists weighed hard parts too, such as fitting tools into national systems, who governs shared work, funding that lasts, and whether AI output can be trusted. A single message ran through the day, the authors say: fresh tools alone will not sharpen outbreak smarts. Lasting trust, shared ownership, and joint work across fields and lands matter just as much.
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| CREATOR | Julia Fitzner, Barbara Tornimbene, Hugo Gruson, Adam Kucharski, Kevin J Olival, Chloe Rice, Lisa Waddell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |