The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota are developing a new publication to report on outbreaks and emerging diseases.
Michael Osterholm, PhD, director of CIDRAP, announced the publication during opening remarks at IDWeek, a joint annual meeting of several infectious diseases associations.
The new publication, Public Health Alerts, is slated to launch within the next month. It will serve as an alternative to the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown. During the shutdown, hundreds of CDC staff involved in outbreak response — including those working on the MMWR — were mistakenly laid off and later rehired.
A joint editorial team from CIDRAP and NEJM will lead the effort, which aims to ensure timely communication of urgent public health information.
“It will be a way to convey the information that once was shared in the MMWR with all of us in a very timely way,” Dr. Osterholm said. “We encourage all of you to begin thinking about submissions about outbreaks [and] data you think should be evaluated.”
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