Ebola Live Map

Ebola Live Map´s content is aggregated from freely available information from the following sources:

http://healthmap.org/
https://extranet.who.int/
http://www.logcluster.org/
http://www.medbox.org/
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/

ABOUT HEALTHMAP

Is a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Children's Hospital Boston founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. The freely available Web site 'healthmap.org' and mobile app 'Outbreaks Near Me' deliver real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers. HealthMap brings together disparate data sources, including online news aggregators, eyewitness reports, expert-curated discussions and validated official reports, to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. Through an automated process, updating 24/7/365, the system monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, visualizes and disseminates online information about emerging diseases in nine languages, facilitating early detection of global public health threats.

ABOUT WHO

WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

ABOUT MEDBOX

MEDBOX is an innovative online library aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in humanitarian action, worldwide.

An independent internet platform supported by international agencies and scientific institutions active in humanitarian assistance and development, MEDBOX collates the increasing number of professional guidelines, textbooks and practical documents on health action available online today and brings these into the hands of humanitarian aid workers: when they need it, where they need it.

ABOUT THE LOGISTIC CLUSTER

Due to the ad hoc and unpredictable nature of many international responses to emergencies, the international humanitarian community (UN agencies, International Organisations and I/NGOs) reviewed past operations and identified consistent gaps and weaknesses. To address these issues the UN Emergency Response Coordinator, through OCHA, introduced an Agenda for Reform in September 2005. The reform was targeted to improve partnership between humanitarian actors and therefore enhance the overall response to emergencies, and was rapidly developed along three key axes, known as the three pillars of the reform: (1) Development of clusters at global and country levels. (2) Strengthening of the role of the Humanitarian Coordinator at field level. (3) Modification to key aspects of the funding mechanisms.

About EDIS
The Hungarian National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE) operates Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS) within the frame of its own website which has the objective to monitor and document all the events on the Earth which may cause disaster or emergency. The service is using the speed and the data spectrum of the internet to gather information. They are monitoring and processing several foreign organisation's data to get quick and certified information.