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Building Physician Networks as Part of the Zika Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2017

Nia Heard-Garris Open the ORCID record for Nia Heard-Garris [Opens in a new window] ,
Sanjeev Arora  and
Nicole Lurie
Nia Heard-Garris*
Affiliation:
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sanjeev Arora
Affiliation:
Director of Project ECHO and University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nicole Lurie
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
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Correspondence and reprint requests to Nia Heard-Garris, MD, MSc, FAAP, North Campus Research Complex, 2800 Plymouth Road, Building 14, Room G100, Space 18, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

The global community needs to easily identify and respond to new and reemerging threats, such as H1N1, Ebola, and most recently Zika. Clinicians are often the first-line providers to recognize these threats, but yet have few opportunities to learn from each other in real time. In this concept article, we describe the ways clinical information is traditionally shared during a public health emergency and then introduce new mechanisms to facilitate physician communication and learning as a part of the response to Zika. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:259–261)

Keywords

communicationemergency preparednessZikaphysician networks
Type
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 259 - 261
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2017 

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