Despite all the rhetoric about the importance of infectious disease surveillance, the concept itself has received relatively little critical attention from academics, practitioners, and policymakers. This book asks leading contributors in the field to engage with five key issues attached to international disease outbreak surveillance - transparency, local engagement, practical needs, integration, and appeal - to illuminate the political effect of these technologies on those who use surveillance, those who respond to surveillance, and those being monitored.

Sara E. Davies is ARC Future Fellow and QUT Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology. Jeremy R. Youde is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.

Introduction: A Study of the Politics of Surveillance and Responses to Disease Outbreaks, Sara E. Davies, Jeremy R. Youde; Chapter 1 Surveillance, Response, and Responsibilities in the 2005 International Health Regulations, Sara E. Davies, Jeremy R. Youde; Chapter 2 The Revised International Health Regulations and Outbreak Response, Simon Rushton, Adam Kamradt-Scott; Chapter 3 Risk Perception, Assessment, and Management in Responses to Pandemic Influenza, Theresa Seetoh, Marco Liverani, Richard Coker; Chapter 4 Biosurveillance, Human Rights, and the Zombie Plague, Jeremy R. Youde; Chapter 5 GPHIN Phase 3: One Mandate, Multiple Stakeholders, Abla Mawudeku, Philip AbdelMalik, Richard Lemay, Louise Boily; Chapter 6 A Review of Web-based Epidemic Detection, Nigel H. Collier; Chapter 7 GPHIN, GOARN, GONE? The Role of the World Health Organization in Global Disease Surveillance and Response, Clare Wenham; Chapter 8 Insights into Surveillance from the Influenza Virus and Benefit Sharing Controversy, Frank L. SmithIII; Chapter 9 Biosurveillance as National Policy: The United States' National Strategy for Biosurveillance, Jeremy R. Youde; Chapter 10 Strengthening National Health Systems' Capacity to Respond to Future Global Pandemics, Jennifer S. Edge, Steven J. Hoffman; conclusion Conclusion, Sara E. Davies, Jeremy R. Youde;