Data, disease and diplomacy: GISAID's innovative contribution to global health
Data, disease and diplomacy: GISAID's innovative contribution to global health
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DOI：
10.1002/gch2.1018
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Buckland-Merrett, Gemma
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作者：
Elbe, Stefan;Buckland-Merrett, Gemma
影响声明：致命传染病的迅速蔓延是一个全球性挑战，可能影响到世界各地的任何人。为了保护人们免受这种致命疫情的影响，科学家和政府必须迅速分享有关致病病原体的信息。如果无法获得此类信息，就很难适当评估对全球健康构成的风险，制定新的医疗对策，并采取相应的国际对策。然而，最近的疫情表明，快速共享病毒数据存在一些障碍。科学家可能希望在他们的学术研究发表之前保留数据;政府担心与新的重大疫情有关的影响，并且资助全球公共产品（如国际数据库）来托管此类数据仍然具有挑战性。通过对全球流感数据共享倡议（GISAID）的第一项研究，本文展示了如何通过精心设计新的共享机制来鼓励更多的国际共享此类数据。国际艾滋病综合服务局现已在流感领域建立了成功的跟踪记录，也可作为管理其他疾病和需要国际共享敏感数据的全球挑战的有用蓝图。
Impact Statement: The rapid spread of lethal infectious diseases is a global challenge potentially affecting any person around the world. To protect populations against such deadly outbreaks, it is critical that scientists and governments rapidly share information about the pathogens causing them. Without access to such information, it will be very difficult to properly assess the risk posed to global health, to develop new medical countermeasures, and to mount a commensurate international response. However, recent outbreaks suggest several impediments to the rapid sharing of virus data. Scientist may wish to withhold data until their scholarly studies are published; governments are fearful about the repercussions of being associated with a major new outbreak, and it remains challenging to fund global public goods like an international database to host such data. Through the first study of the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID), this article shows how it is possible to encourage the greater international sharing of such data through the careful design of new sharing mechanisms. GISAID has now developed a successful track-record in the field of influenza that may also serve as a useful blueprint for managing other diseases and global challenges requiring the international sharing of sensitive data.