The aim of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance (GEIS) section at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch (AFHSB) is to contribute to the protection of all Department of Defense (DoD) healthcare beneficiaries and the global community through an integrated worldwide emerging infectious disease surveillance system. GEIS was created in 1997 in response to Presidential Decision Directive NSTC-7 to provide a mechanism within the DoD to centralize coordination of surveillance efforts conducted through the DoD overseas medical research and development laboratories. Efforts ultimately support and strengthen surveillance among deployed US military personnel and aid in diagnosis and treatment at military treatment facilities. Additionally, all host country partner activities are directed toward improvement of each country's diagnostic and reporting requirements in accordance with the World Health Organization's International Health Regulations (2005) core capacities.
The integrated emerging infectious disease system supported by GEIS is guided by three strategic goals:
- Conduct surveillance and outbreak response activities
- Expand surveillance and epidemiology training and capacity building within the U.S. military and in partner nations
- Support research, innovation and integration initiatives that emphasize an eventual product that will enhance force health protection such as drug and diagnostic tool development, assessment and communication of value added by the network
Click below to learn more about the surveillance priorities directed by the GEIS strategic goals:
Partner Locations
AFHSB-GEIS provides direction, funding and oversight to a network of more than 70 partners based in all regions of the world. Working in conjunction with their host nations, these partners conduct disease surveillance and rapid outbreak response, encourage research and innovation, and build capacity.
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Policy
The DoD Global, Laboratory-based, Influenza Surveillance Program, at USAFSAM selects military treatment facilities (MTFs) from worldwide locations to participate as Sentinel Sites. Installations are selected annually based on mission, population, deployment/operations tempo and type, and geographic location. Particular focus is on impact to critical operations, highly heterogeneous, mobile populations, potential for new strain production, and past performance. The 2016-2017 Sentinel Site listing (attached) was approved by the USAFSAM team in April 2016, in committee, and has remained unchanged for 2 years.
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