NDEWS: A New Paradigm for Drug Early Warning Systems

描述：利用马里兰大学现有的大量资源和专业知识，塞萨尔将与NIDA合作创建国家预警系统协调中心(NEWS)。NEWS将是第一个能够识别新兴药物，特别是新的合成药物及其代谢物的国家公共卫生监测系统。新闻将产生关于毒品及其对公共卫生的影响的迫切需要的信息，以便能够制定快速、知情和有效的公共卫生反应。在这个为期5年的项目中，塞萨尔将与NIDA合作：1)选择和召集咨询委员会；2)创建一个由科学家、公共卫生专家、执法代表和其他人组成的新闻网络，他们将成为共享信息和协助当地研究的虚拟社区的一部分；3)利用传统和创新来源，包括社交媒体和网络扫描，进行全国毒品扫描；4)建立一个协调社区指标体系，以跟踪全国和12个哨兵站点的毒品趋势和新兴药物；5)建立快速反应小组(RRT)，每年在最多3个热点地区进行新兴药物的地方研究；6)通过虚拟社区和新闻网站等多种机制发布新闻警报和年度报告。其他重大创新包括与美国毒物控制中心协会建立合作伙伴关系，将研究人员和从业者联系起来，以识别新出现的药物。此外，大学信息学家将采用他们最先进的方法来分析互联网流量，以跟踪和预测新药物的出现。

DESCRIPTION: Drawing upon the considerable resources and expertise available at the University of Maryland, CESAR will work with NIDA to create the Coordinating Center for the National Early Warning System (NEWS). NEWS will be the first national public health surveillance system with the ability to identify emerging drugs, especially new synthetic drugs and their metabolites. NEWS will generate critically needed information about drugs and their public health consequences so that rapid, informed, and effective public health responses can be developed. During the 5-year project, CESAR will work with NIDA to: 1) select and convene the Advisory Board; 2) create a NEWS Network of scientists, public health experts, law enforcement representatives, and others who will become part of a virtual community for sharing information and assisting with local research; 3) conduct a national drug scan utilizing both traditional and innovative sources, including social media and web scans; 4) establish a system of harmonized community indicators for tracking drug trends and emerging drugs nationally and in 12 Sentinel Sites; 5) establish a Rapid Response Team (RRT) to conduct local studies of emerging drugs in up to 3 HotSpots per year; and 6) disseminate NEWS Alerts and annual reports through multiple mechanisms, including the virtual community and a NEWS web site. Other major innovations include initiating a partnership with the American Association of Poison Control Centers to link researchers and practitioners to identify emerging drugs. In addition, university information scientists will adapt their state-of-the-art methodologies for analyzing internet traffic to track and predict the emergence of new drugs.