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Boris I. Pavlin

Researcher at World Health Organization

Publications -  35
Citations -  22867

Boris I. Pavlin is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 29 publications receiving 18929 citations. Previous affiliations of Boris I. Pavlin include Johns Hopkins University.

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Sustaining surveillance: Evaluating syndromic surveillance in the Pacific

TL;DR: An in-country quantitative and qualitative evaluation in five PICTs identified that the most important determinants of the syndromic surveillance system's success were simplicity of the system, ease of use, support from all levels of government and support from external agencies.
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Event-based surveillance in Papua New Guinea: strengthening an International Health Regulations (2005) core capacity.

TL;DR: There is a need to reinforce reporting pathways, improve timeliness of reporting, expand sources of information, improve feedback and improve diagnostic support capacity in the EBS system in Papua New Guinea.
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A large outbreak of shigellosis commencing in an internally displaced population, Papua New Guinea, 2013.

TL;DR: An outbreak of shigellosis that began in a camp for internally displaced persons before spreading throughout the general community in Papua New Guinea highlights the threat of enteric diseases to vulnerable populations as has been observed in other global settings.