The Division of Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) Operations includes the Department of Avian Influenza and Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and the Department of GEIS Core.
Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) Operations, a division of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center
(AFHSC), promotes and facilitates national and international preparedness for emerging infections with a focus on protecting the health of
DoD health care beneficiaries. GEIS promotes, expands, and executes strategic goals of surveillance and detection, response and readiness,
integration and innovation, and cooperation and capacity building.
Five categories of infectious diseases and associated clinical states are the GEIS priority surveillance pillars: respiratory infections, especially influenza; gastrointestinal infections; febrile illness syndromes, especially dengue and malaria; antimicrobial resistance; and sexually transmitted infections.
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