Welcome to the Infectious Disease Emergencies community

Thank you for joining us. This is the community of authors, reviewers, editors, instructors, designers and other experts here to help with the creation and use of the printed book and open access resource, Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response, edited by Dale Fisher, supported by the Centre for Infectious Disease Emergency Response (CIDER) at NUS Medicine and published by NUS Press.

This book represents the knowledge and experience of some of the greatest in the field of outbreak preparedness and response. We have paired over more than 90 esteemed experts with over 20 early career professionals to provide readers with unprecedented insights into how to prepare for and respond to outbreaks and pandemics. The project began in 2021 when I was approached by four medical students to create this book. With an extraordinary network of colleagues resulting from my long association with the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) and great advice and support from a group of editorial advisors, I began recruiting. The enthusiasm was very encouraging.

Early career professionals developing skills in outbreak response will take value from this book. Furthermore seasoned experts in a particular discipline can gain a more holistic understanding of outbreak preparedness and response by better appreciating the efforts undertaken in other disciplines. While it is quite technical, non-public heath experts such as political and community leaders and the media, would certainly get value from selected chapters, if they are confronting an outbreak or becoming involved in outbreak preparation efforts.

Dale Fisher

For the community of authors and reviewers

This is place for you to help edit, quality check and improve the text as Infectious Disease Emergencies, on the way to print publication, and beyond. Our goal is to make this an ever-evolving and improving resource, with value-added comments and improvements as and when necessary. Our system includes the version tracking that will make it possible to cite specific versions of the chapters.

For publication we are using the excellent PubPub system created by Knowledge Futures Group, a non-profit created as a joint venture by the MIT Press and MIT Media Lab.

Here are some notes to help you navigate through the publication system.

Welcome to the top-level Community page

This is where we gather the various open online publications related to NUS CIDER. Right now, there is only one book in the community, Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response.

If you click down to book level you will see the different book chapters that have been posted online. We will be granting access to these chapters initially to the authors and editors, and as the work gets closer to its final form, to the wider community, before our official publication.

The basic unit of the PubPub system is the Pub, the main type of document we work with. For our case, these are book chapters, but in other potential use cases they might be journal articles, reviews or notes. Pubs allow you to write with collaborators in real-time and invite others to leave feedback in the form of discussion threads and inline annotations.