Digital Tools Inventory
Name Description Website
Tripartite Zoonosis Guide
The Tripartite Zoonoses Guide (TZG) has been jointly developed by the FAO, WHO, and WOAH to support countries in taking a multisectoral, One Health approach to address zoonotic diseases. It provides principles, best practices and options to assist countries in achieving sustainable and functional collaboration at the human-animal-environment interface.
https://www.who.int/initiatives/tripartite-zoonosis-guide
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GLEWS+
The Global Early Warning System (GLEWS) is a joint system that builds on the added value of combining and coordinating the alert and disease intelligence mechanisms of OIE, FAO and WHO for the international community and stakeholders to assist in prediction, prevention and control of animal disease threats, including zoonoses, through sharing of information, epidemiological analysis and joint risk assessment.
http://www.glews.net/
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WAHIS
The World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS) is the platform where WOAH Members and non-Members provide information on animal diseases through the submission of immediate notifications (IN), follow-up reports (FUR), six-monthly reports (SMR), annual reports (AR) and voluntary wildlife reports (VWR) in accordance with the WOAH Terrestrial and Aquatic Animal Health Codes.
https://wahis.woah.org/#/home
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Global Animal Disease Information System (EMPRES-i).
EMPRES-i collects information on outbreaks, vaccination and surveillance efforts and supports two main global strategies for control and eradication of two major diseases: Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR). EMPRES-i hosts data originated from active surveillance implemented through several projects executed by FAO. This data complements countries’ efforts to know exactly the situation of animal disease pathogens and its distribution in livestock production systems or along the food chain.
https://empres-i.apps.fao.org/
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Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin (REB)
The Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin (REB) is a free-to-use, One Health rabies surveillance system that has been built by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) for use by national governments. By using the REB, rabies data is easily collected, aggregated, and automatically analyzed.
https://rabiesalliance.org/tools/surveillance-tools/reb
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AfyaData
AfyaData is an open source digital disease surveillance tool developed by SACIDS
http://afyadata.sacids.org/about
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DHIS2 tracker (One Health Platform)
The One Health Electronic Platform in Burkina Faso was built by MEASURE Evaluation using the DHIS2 tracker technology. This platform allows data from all levels and players (animal, human and environment) in the health system to be connected, including data from the laboratories (sample transportation and testing). Data are entered both online and offline on tablets through DHIS2 Android applications.
https://www.measureevaluation.org/resources/publications/gr-19-100/at_download/document
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epitweetr
epitweetr allows users to automatically monitor trends on Twitter to detect public health threats early. It can monitor trends by time, place and topic, and detect patterns such as an unusual increase in the number of tweets. It was designed to support public health experts with the early detection of threats from infectious diseases but can be extended to all hazards and other fields of study by using different topics and keywords.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/epitweetr-tool
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EpiPulse
EpiPulse is an online portal built by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for European public health authorities and global partners to collect, analyse, share, and discuss infectious disease data for threat detection, monitoring, risk assessment and outbreak response. It facilitates collection, analysis and dissemination of indicator- and event-based surveillance data on infectious diseases and associated health issues, including global epidemic intelligence, whole-genome sequencing, and health determinants.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/epipulse-european-surveillance-portal-infectious-diseases
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GISAID Database
The GISAID Data Science Initiative promotes the rapid sharing of data from priority pathogens including influenza, hCoV-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), hMpxV as well as arboviruses including chikungunya, dengue and zika. This includes genetic sequence and related clinical and epidemiological data associated with human viruses, and geographical as well as species-specific data associated with avian and other animal viruses, to help researchers understand how viruses evolve and spread during epidemics and pandemics.
https://www.gisaid.org/
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Rift Valley fever Early Warning Decision Support Tool (RVF DST)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a web-based Rift Valley fever (RVF) Early Warning Decision Support Tool (RVF DST), which integrates near real-time RVF risk maps with geospatial data, RVF historical and current disease events from EMPRES Global Animal Disease Information System (EMPRES-i) and expert knowledge on RVF eco-epidemiology.
https://data.apps.fao.org/?share=f-d08fc113-405c-428d-94e7-1282169d741e&lang=en
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European Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spread Model (EuFMDiS)
EuFMDiS is a multi-country Foot-and-mouth disease spread simulation model. The model allows countries to evaluate their preparedness, the completeness of their contingency plans and the impact of control measures. This model can be used to evaluate various control options (such as impacts of movement restrictions, vaccination strategies, etc.) to eradicate the disease. It can also evaluate available resource and vaccine supply issues.
https://www.fao.org/eufmd/global-situation/eufmdis/en/
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WHO Integrated Data Platform (WIDP)
The WHO Integrated Data Platform (WIDP) is used to collect data from Member States on health workforce malaria, hepatitis and various neglected tropical diseases.
https://www.who.int/tools/who-integrated-data-platform
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WHONET
WHONET is a free desktop Windows application for the management and analysis of microbiology laboratory data with a particular focus on antimicrobial resistance surveillance.
https://whonet.org/index.html
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Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS) system
The EIOS system is a fit- for-purpose but constantly evolving web-based system designed to augment and accelerate global public health intelligence (PHI) activities, built on a collaboration between WHO and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The EIOS system collates each day hundreds of thousands of articles from a broad range of sources, including traditional online media and specific social media sources, government and official web sites, news aggregators, blogs and expert groups, and collaborating initiatives. It runs these sources through a series of text mining and analytical modules to sort and categorize articles by topics, country, language, source and contextual indices. The system regularly checks for new information, which is downloaded and automatically processed and published through the secure EIOS user interface within a few minutes, accessible only to authorised individuals within the EIOS community.
https://www.who.int/initiatives/eios/eios-technology
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World Environment Situation Room (WESR) - geospatial data and services
Includes various tools focusing on geospatial and environmental data, from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
https://wesr.unep.org/article/wesr-geospatial-data-and-services
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Nature Map
Nature Map Earth developed an integrated global map of biodiversity, carbon storage, and clean water supply to support countries to integrate nature and climate in decision making and promote nature-based solutions.
https://explorer.naturemap.earth/map
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SORMAS - Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System
SORMAS is a comprehensive surveillance, management, and analysis tool for infectious diseases that enables countries to monitor and control outbreaks effectively. With SORMAS, public health officials can track infection rates, manage cases and contacts, and access real-time statistics and data visualizations.
https://sormas.org/
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Animal Diseases Information System (ADIS)
The EU Animal Diseases Information System (ADIS) is designed to register and document the evolution of the situation of important infectious animal diseases. It is a disease management tool that ensures immediate notification of alert messages as well as detailed information about outbreaks of the most relevant animal diseases in the countries that are connected to the application.
https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/animal-diseases/animal-disease-information-system-adis_en
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NextStrain
Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. It provides a continually-updated view of publicly available data alongside analytic and visualization tools for use by the community with an overarching goal to aid epidemiological understanding and improve outbreak response.
https://nextstrain.org/
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global.health
Global.health is a global repository and visualization platform that enables open access to real-time de-identified epidemiological line-list case data for infectious diseases and emerging outbreaks.
https://global.health/
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HealthMap
A global disease alert map which aggregates data from a wide range of sources to deliver real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases.
http://www.healthmap.org
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Epi Info
Epi Info™ is a public domain suite of interoperable software tools designed for the global community of public health practitioners and researchers. It provides for easy data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals who may lack an information technology background.
https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html
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FluNet
FluNet is a global web-based tool for influenza virological surveillance first launched in 1997. The virological data entered into FluNet, e.g. number of influenza viruses detected by subtype, are used for tracking the movement of viruses globally and interpreting the epidemiological data.
https://www.who.int/tools/flunet
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FluID
FluID is a global platform for data sharing that links regional influenza epidemiological data into a single global database. The platform provides connections between existing databases and can also be used to directly enter data by the national focal points through a web-based interface. It complements the existing virological data collection tool FluNet.
https://www.who.int/teams/global-influenza-programme/surveillance-and-monitoring/fluid
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Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases
The Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases is a tool that interacts with the latest available data about a number of infectious diseases. The interface allows users to interact and manipulate the data to produce a variety of tables and maps.​​ The information contained in the dataset provided through ATLAS is made available by ECDC collating data from the Member States collected through The European Surveillance System (TESSy). ECDC’s interactive online Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases includes data on at least 56 diseases and disease topics. Users can select individual data sets and generate customized disease maps. As of 2018, data on antimicrobial consumption were added, giving a clear – and very visual – indication of the importance of using antibiotics prudently.
http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx
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Joint Risk Assessment Operational Tool (JRA OT)
The Operational Tool on Joint Risk Assessment (JRA OT) has been developed by the Tripartite organisations (FAO, OIE and WHO) and technical experts to provide guidance on how to set up a joint risk assessment process at national level. While it describes step-by-step how to conduct each component of the process, it also provides model documents and templates to support its implementation by staff from national ministries responsible for management of zoonotic diseases.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/joint-risk-assessment-operational-tool-(-jra-ot)
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One Health Monitoring Tool (OHMT)
The One Health Monitoring Tool (OHMT), is a pilot tool that will be used to produce accurate data on the implementation of One Health, conduct One Health country profiling, and monitor progress on One Health implementation. The OH monitoring tool (OHMT) consists of three sets of criteria: 1) communication, coordination, and collaboration; 2) multi-sectoral disease response; and 3) sustainability.
https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/isessah-19/125927943
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One Health EJP Decision Support Tool
This tool is designed to help those who are new to the fields of risk assessment or One-Health find an appropriate risk assessent approach.
http://cohesive.onehealthejp.eu/
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Arizona One Health Toolkit
The Arizona One Health Toolkit provides communication and collaboration strategies to strengthen and enhance partnerships.
https://www.azdhs.gov/documents/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/vector-borne-zoonotic-diseases/arizona-one-health-toolkit-2019.pdf
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One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource Toolkit (OH-SMART)
The One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource Toolkit (OH-SMART) is an interactive process that fosters working across organizational and disciplinary lines when preparing or responding to disease outbreaks or addressing other complex One Health challenges.
https://oh-smart.umn.edu/oh-smart-framework
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Generalizable One Health Framework (GOHF)
A five-step framework that provides structure for using a One Health approach in zoonotic disease programs being implemented at the local, sub-national, national, regional, or international level. Part of the framework is a toolkit that compiles existing resources and presents them following a stepwise schematic, allowing users to identify relevant resources as they are required.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12619-1.pdf
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PREDICT Standard Operating Procedures for One Health Surveillance - Manual
This guide features One Health protocols and guidelines developed by PREDICT to ensure safe (for humans and animals) and efficient sampling of wild animals, livestock, and humans.
https://ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk5251/files/inline-files/PREDICT%202%20SOP%20Book_v3.%20Aug2020.pdf
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Spillover Viral Risk Ranking
Developed by infectious disease scientists, SpillOver: Viral Risk Ranking explores and directly compares hundreds of virus, host and environmental risk factors to identify viruses with the highest risk of zoonotic spillover from wildlife to humans.
https://spillover.global/
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Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART)
SMART is an open-source platform offering data collection, management, and analysis software focused on the management and monitoring of protected areas. The SMART platform consists of a set of software and analysis tools designed to help conservationists manage and protect wildlife and wild places. SMART can help standardize and streamline data collection, analysis, and reporting, making it easier for key information to get from the field to decision-makers.
https://smartconservationtools.org/
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EnviroAtlas
EnviroAtlas provides geospatial data, easy-to-use tools, and other resources related to ecosystem services, their chemical and non-chemical stressors, and human health.
https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas
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WHO Costing and Budgeting Tool for National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance
To operationalize and accelerate implementation of national action plans on AMR, WHO has developed a costing and budgeting tool and accompanying user guide.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240036901
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Tailoring Antimicrobial Resistance Programmes (TAP) Toolbox
This Tailoring Antimicrobial Resistance Programmes (TAP) process assists Member States in initiating and undertaking projects to address the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in their countries.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/341632/9789289055574-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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AMR One Health Network
Facilitates communication across the European Comission AMR OH network.
https://ec.europa.eu/assets/sante/health/amr/docs/amr_20220125_co04_en.pdf
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AMR Advocacy Toolkit
For Public Health enthusiasts including components of advocacy with a focus on Antimicrobial resistance.
https://issuu.com/ifmsa-scoph/docs/amr_advocacy_toolkit
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ResistanceMap
ResistanceMap is a web-based collection of data visualization tools that allows interactive exploration of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antibiotic use trends in countries across the globe.
https://resistancemap.cddep.org/index.php
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One Health APP Toolkits
Through the Preparedness and Response (P&R) project’s work in supporting One Health platforms across 16 countries in Africa and Southeast Asia, the project developed a series of One Health toolkits. These toolkits offer guidance on how to institutionalize multisectoral coordination for the prevention, detection, and response to public health threats.
https://www.onehealthapp.org/resources
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Resource Library Competency, Framework, and Evaluation Toolkit
This manual was developed to promote competency-based training and evaluation for One Health Workforce by organizing current approaches, methodologies, and tools into a resource library and building a competency framework and assessment toolkit.
https://s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com/owha-sample-bucket/2021/09/One-Health-Competency-Framework_August-2020-English.pdf
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One Health Student Group Start-Up Toolkit
Manual about how to create a One Health student group
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VYsqJRA_CmzEI8M1yIuCQ5GNgHwg6rLwFwRREmc7_5k/edit#heading=h.luigco7d12e2
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One Health EJP Glossary
The OHEJP Glossary has 3 main functionalities. First the collection of One Health (OH) related terms and definitions in the sectors public health, animal health and food safety. Second, highlighting similarities and differences of terms and definitions between the sectors. Finally, an infrastructure to reference, search, and filter terms and definitions.
https://aginfra.d4science.org/web/orionknowledgehub/catalogue
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OH-EpiCap Tool
The purpose of the OH-EpiCap tool is to develop system-specific profiles of (potential) surveillance interoperability between sectors, highlighting both strengths and gaps in surveillance capacity and capabilities. The OH-EpiCap tool facilitates characterizing, evaluating, and improvement of ‘One Health-ness’ using a set of standardized indicators, to allow comparison across systems, countries, and hazards of interest.
https://carlijnbogaardt.shinyapps.io/OH-EpiCap/
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RAKIP Model Repository
The RAKIP Model Repository aims to support modellers, scientists, risk assessors and risk managers in their efforts to share and re-use mathematical models as well as data analysis procedures across One Health sectors.
https://knime.bfr.berlin/landingpage/RAKIP-Model-Repository
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EU One Health Zoonoses Reports
There was a platform created within the APP with a One Health purpose, the Integrated bite case management (IBCM). The app creates a platform through which health sectors can share knowledge crucial to the identifcation of rabid animals and coordinate a response to protect the community. Tracing potential rabid dogs and additional human rabies exposures through the treatment-seeking behaviorrs of a community make the IBCM tool a potent resource for rabies elimination.
ecdc.europa.eu/en/all-topics-z/food-and-waterborne-diseases-and-zoonoses/surveillance-and-disease-data/eu-one-health
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KoboToolbox
KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments.
https://www.kobotoolbox.org/
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Zendro
Zendro is a software tool to quickly create a data warehouse and capable of dealing with diverse data generated by different research groups in the context of the FAIR principles and multidisciplinary projects
https://zendro-dev.github.io/
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Watershed and Climate Change Platform (PLACCC)
Watershed is a software platform helping companies get to net zero carbon. Its platform equips customers to run a climate program the way they would their business: It analyzes a company’s full carbon footprint, including Scope 3 emissions; maps out a plan to get to net zero; funds carbon removal; and reports progress to stakeholders.
https://watershed.com/
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Atlas Nacional de Vulnerabilidad al Cambio Climático (ANVCC)
It is a tool that analyzes specific problems related to the climate, shows the differential territorial vulnerability considering current climatic conditions and future scenarios; It allows the identification of vulnerable regions, sectors or populations to contribute to a strategy for the design, targeting and implementation of adaptation processes, and their corresponding monitoring and evaluation. According to the differential vulnerability of the territory, this tool issues specific recommendations at the regional and subregional levels and thus strengthen public policy for adaptation to climate change.
https://atlasvulnerabilidad.inecc.gob.mx/
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Sistema de Información Nacional de Enfermedades Exóticas y Emergentes (SINEXE)
SINEXE captures and sends information in real time from field investigations to central offices and a network of laboratories through mobile devices that have GPS and a digital camera. It is mainly focused in reports of clinical suspicion of exotic diseases, epidemiological surveillance, dispatch of samples to laboratories, control of sample processing at laboratories, dispatch of results reports and analysis management of all the national information now centralized
https://www.gob.mx/senasica/acciones-y-programas/sistema-de-informacion-nacional-de-enfermedades-exoticas-y-emergentes-sinexe
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WVS App
The WVS App is designed for effective data collection and team management in the field. First developed in 2014, it continues to be a powerful force for WVS and other organisations to conduct efficient field research to benefit both animal welfare and operational impact.
https://wvs.org.uk/news/the-wvs-app
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PROMED
The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) that was launched in 1994 as an Internet service to identify unusual health events related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and toxins affecting humans, animals and plants.
https://promedmail.org/
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CIDRAP
CIDRAP provides advice, information and analysis on the prevention, control and treatment of targeted infectious diseases and in public health preparedness
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/
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Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D)
Livestockdata.org is a platform for evidence generated through the Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D) community, as well as useful evidence from other expert sources. LD4D is dedicated to improving the landscape of livestock data by encouraging better use of existing data and analysis, and supporting collaboration on new and innovative data solutions.
https://www.livestockdata.org/
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Custom Climate Security Analytics (Strata)
A web-based, easy-to-use data platform to identify and track environmental and climate stresses
https://open.unepstrata.org/#/
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Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS)
EIDSS is a customizable web-based electronic disease reporting system that can support passive and active human and animal health surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, vector surveillance, and outbreak management to provide near real-time information flow for infectious disease-related decision-making.
Github.com/EIDSS
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One Health AMR Research Data Platform
The tool links anti-microbial usage data to resistance data to provide a framework for developing future policy and education, mitigating the risk of AMR.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/vet-school/research/projects/amr-research-data-platform/
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Integrated OH antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial usage data integration system, AMRIS
The system aggregates data from a range of primary data management systems across the public health, animal health, and environmental domains providing a single point of truth for reporting and analysis. It has a range of built-in standard analyses compliant with international standards and allows stakeholders from across the OH domains to access and analyze AMU, AMR, and antimicrobial residue surveillance data from all domains.
https://amris.online/
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COHESIVE Information System (CIS)
COHESIVE Information System (CIS) is a data platform to facilitate risk‐analysis and outbreak control. The CIS is basically a database with a WEB interface based on the opensource CMDBUILD Project.
https://cohesive.izs.it/cmdbuild/ui/#login; https://cohesive.izs.it/wiki/user/#:~:text=COHESIVE%20Information%20System%20(CIS)%20is,on%20the%20opensource%20CMDBUILD%20Project.
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The Surveillance and Information Sharing Operational Tool
The Surveillance and Information Sharing Operational Tool (SIS OT) has been developed by the Tripartite organizations (FAO, WHO, WOAH) and technical experts to support national authorities to establish or strengthen their coordinated, multisectoral surveillance and information sharing for zoonotic diseases.
https://www.who.int/initiatives/tripartite-zoonosis-guide/surveillance-and-information-sharing-operational-tool
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One Health Information Assessment Tool (OHIAT) Maturity Model
ODH aims to facilitate and improve collaboration among practitioners in One Health and digital health communities.
https://www.jsi.com/resource/one-health-information-assessment-tool-ohiat-maturity-model/
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FAO Assessment Tool for Laboratories and AMR Surveillance Systems (FAO-ATLASS)
FAO-ATLASS is a tool for assessing and defining targets to improve national AMR surveillance systems in the food and agriculture sectors. It is composed of two modules: the surveillance module, and the laboratory module. Each module includes two standardized questionnaires, which are completed by the assessors.
https://www.fao.org/antimicrobial-resistance/resources/tools/fao-atlass/en/
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FAO AMR Surveillance and Monitoring Tools
Mulitple digital tool developed and deployed by FAO to assess and support the improvement of laboratory capacity, surveillance systems and the use of AMR data
https://www.fao.org/antimicrobial-resistance/key-sectors/surveillance-and-monitoring/en/
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Epicore: An infectious disease surveillance tool for field-based verification of public health events
EPICORE is a tool designed to supplement traditional infectious disease surveillance efforts by bringing together human, animal, and environmental experts on a digital platform to provide field-based verification efforts of global public health events. Public health professionals from organizations around the globe, including Ending Pandemics, HealthMap, Geosentinel, MSF-OCBA, ProMED, and EDIS-RSOE, are trained as Moderators and can send Requests for Information (RFIs). Moderators utilize nontraditional resources, such as social media and news articles, to identify potential health events.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)31629-5/fulltext
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Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS)
The EIOS system is a fit- for-purpose but constantly evolving web-based system designed to augment and accelerate global public health intelligence (PHI) activities, built on a long-standing collaboration between WHO and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.
https://www.who.int/initiatives/eios/eios-technology
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