Table 3.

Top ten ranked policy priorities for pandemic preparedness and response in Latin America.

Domain	Topic	Weighted score
Prevention of the emergence or release of pathogens	Zoonotic disease-pathogen surveillance systems	27·4
Sufficient and robust health systems	Robust infection and prevention control programs	22·8
Early detection and reporting	Indicator and event-based monitoring and reporting systems	22·1
Early detection and reporting	Community-based surveillance	22·0
Policy and planning	Revising or improving national strategic plans for emerging and re-emerging pathogens	21·5
Rapid response	Public health and safety authorities linkage for rapid response during a biological event	20·2
Sufficient and robust health systems	Updated and real-time health information systems	20·1
Workforce development in epidemiology and rapid response	Applied epidemiology training programs	19·4
Workforce development in epidemiology and rapid response	Develop a user-friendly information system with alerts for physicians and front-line workers	19·3
Workforce development in epidemiology and rapid response	Collaborations among universities, research institutes and governments for capacity building and field training	18·8