Biosurveillance Resource Directory (BRD)
The BRD is a tool to facilitate obtaining disease surveillance information. It contains disease surveillance resources, epidemiological models (previously known as the 'BARD'), and a disease ontology.
Table of contents
Main BRD content:
Supporting content:
Key external links:
- Ministries of health worldwide, via the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Contact, feedback & submitting resources
We welcome all feedback. You can contact us at these emails to give feedback or suggest a resource.
Published literature regarding this database is also available. How to cite the BRD depends on which facets you use. If you use the BRD's epidemiological models for research, please cite:
- Margevicius, K. J., Generous N., Abeyta E., Althouse B., et. al. The Biosurveillance Analytics Resource Directory (BARD): Facilitating the Use of Epidemiological Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance. PLOS ONE 2016;11, e0146600. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146600
- Margevicius K. J., Generous N., Taylor-McCabe K. J., Brown M. et. al. Advancing a Framework to Enable Characterization and Evaluation of Data Streams Useful for Biosurveillance. PLOS ONE 2014;9(1): e83730. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083730