The promise and challenge of global network governance: The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

Global Governance

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 317-337

  Ansell, Chris ^a   Sondorp, Egbert ^b   Stevens, Robert Hartley ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Early warning systems; Global public policy networks; GOARN; Infectious disease; Network governance; Public health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866248993     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: 19426720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01803005     Document Type: Review

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31. Details of the structure of GOARN are set out in a working document, "Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network: Structure of the Network", produced by the World Health Organization, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, no date.
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