The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeHealth and SocietyDepartment of Global Health Security
Surveillance, outbreak investigation, pandemic preparedness and response
Public health emergencies and epidemics covers the prevention, detection and response to epidemics and other public health emergencies as all-hazards risks that reach every sector.
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Twin figures for Delhi and its National Capital Territory core, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
For Public health emergencies and epidemics: the faculty's twin of Delhi on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the WorldPop count grid as cells, the mapped hospitals and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
The discipline teaches the International Health Regulations (2005) as amended in 2024, with the pandemic emergency level in force since September 2025, epidemic intelligence and event-based surveillance with wastewater, genomic and AI-assisted signals, outbreak investigation with case definitions and the case fatality ratio, compartmental modelling with explicit parameters (the SIR explorer on the faculty home seeds an outbreak in any cell of the Delhi count grid), non-pharmaceutical interventions, medical countermeasures and supply, risk communication and mass gatherings, and the WHO Pandemic Agreement of 2025 with its pathogen access and benefit-sharing annex still under negotiation after the World Health Assembly extended the talks in May 2026, so the Agreement is not yet open for signature. A graduate can read R0, the peak and the final size off a model and say why it is not a forecast, write an outbreak investigation plan with its case definition, and map the core capacities a response needs.
This area covers the prevention, detection and response to epidemics and other public health emergencies: the International Health Regulations, epidemic intelligence and surveillance, outbreak investigation, vector-borne disease, pandemic preparedness and public health communication. It is taught in the department of Global Health Security, Faculty of Health and Society, through 4 courses with it as primary discipline.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Global health security governance; Climate-sensitive health risk.
Recent developments in public health emergencies and epidemics, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Public health emergencies and epidemics, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
Courses with this as their primary discipline. Open courses link to the catalogue.
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From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 3 |
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 3 |
Cited as places where the subject is practised; the institutions named are sources here, and Risk Academy hosts every course.
The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, labs, hours and level.