Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Infectious Disease Surveillance

Infectious disease surveillance is the systematic and continuous collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data about infectious diseases. It is used to monitor the occurrence and spread of infections, detect outbreaks early, track trends over time, and guide public health responses such as control …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 56× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Infectious disease surveillance is the systematic and continuous collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data about infectious diseases. It is used to monitor the occurrence and spread of infections, detect outbreaks early, track trends over time, and guide public health responses such as control measures and resource allocation. Surveillance draws on case reporting, laboratory testing, and increasingly on molecular and genomic tools, and it underpins the ability of health systems to anticipate and respond to threats from communicable disease at local, national, and global levels. Infectious disease surveillance falls within the scope of Public Health International, which addresses the monitoring and control of disease across populations. Research relevant to this area includes the application of proteomic and genomic techniques in medical research and diagnostics, which support the detection and characterization of disease, as well as broader public health investigations of infection and outbreak response. Such work reflects how data collection, laboratory methods, and analysis combine to monitor and contain infectious disease. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to infectious disease surveillance and public health monitoring.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 56 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Infectious Disease Surveillance, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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