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. 2013 Mar 5;8(3):e57252. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057252

Table 2. Early Alerting and Reporting (EAR) public health institutions and stakeholders.

Institution name Country
Public Health Institutions Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) United States (USA)
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) European Union (EU)
Health Protection Agency (HPA) United Kingdom
Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS) France
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) Italy
National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) Japan
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Canada
Robert Koch Institute (RKI) Germany
Stakeholders Ministries of Health Canada
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Mexico
United Kingdom
United States
Directorate General for Health and Consumers of the European Commission (DG-SANCO)
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
World Health Organization (WHO) as observer