Inoculating Cities
Case Studies of Urban Pandemic Preparedness

A global resource addressing the importance of urban pandemic preparedness and how experiences with outbreaks have led to innovative municipal approaches for detecting, preparing for, and responding to infectious diseases

Rebecca Katz (Edited by), Matthew Boyce (Edited by)

9780128202043

Paperback, published 25 June 2021

270 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.43 kg

Approx.240 pages

1. Introduction 2. Controlling Dengue, an Urban Pandemic - a case study of Delhi, India 3. The 2019 Measles outbreak in Clark County, Washington 4. Municipal Healthcare Delivery Special Pathogens Preparedness and Response in the City that Never Sleeps: The NYC Health + Hospitals’ Approach to the 2018-2019 Measles Outbreak and Other Infectious Disease Threats 5. The Cleveland Ebola Incident Response 6. Preparedness planning for re-emergent smallpox in differing high income cities - Phoenix, USA and Sydney, Australia 7. Assessing city-level capacity for urban epidemic preparedness and response 8. Developing a more effective locally led response to the HIV epidemic in Blantyre, Malawi 9. Building robust interface between public health authority and medical institutions in a densely populated city: State-of-the-art integrated pandemic and emerging disease preparedness in the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan 10. The translational flow of data: Using science, technology, and data analytics to combat the spread of disease between and within cities 11. After Action Reviews as a Best Practice Tool for Evaluating the Response to Urban Disease Outbreaks in Nigeria 12. Development of Emergency Operation Centers in Myanmar 13. Preparedness through Simulation: Urban Outbreak 2019 14. The Role of Private Sector in Urban Health Security 15. Conclusion

Subject Areas: Virology [non-medical PSGL], Life sciences: general issues [PSA]