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cord-299352-9pcb2enl	Siedner, Mark J.	Strengthening the Detection of and Early Response to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons from the West African Ebola Epidemic	2015-03-24		.txt	text/plain	3432	155	44	• Strategies to consider include development of a more precise system to risk stratify geographic settings susceptible to disease outbreaks, reconsideration of the 2005 International Health Regulations Criteria to allow for earlier responses to localized epidemics before they reach epidemic proportions, increasing the flexibility of the World Health Organization director general to characterize epidemics with more granularity, development of guidelines for best practices to promote partnership with local stakeholders and identify locally acceptable response strategies, and, most importantly, making good on international commitments to establish a fund for public health emergency preparedness and response. An International Health Systems fund, through a sustained investment by global partners, would provide much needed preparedness in future cases of outbreaks in LMICs, where local resources are not capable of controlling epidemics [22] .	./cache/cord-299352-9pcb2enl.txt	./txt/cord-299352-9pcb2enl.txt