Emerging Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN)
The Emerging Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN) comprises collaborating centres and individuals from governmental and nongovernmental organizations, academia, WHO and other stakeholders aimed at sharing information and experience to enhance clinical care and scientific understanding of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). EDCARN strengthens the essential link among front-line health workers, global clinical experts and researchers to provide technical expertise at the clinical interface of EIDs, contributing to the capacity of clinicians worldwide to detect and treat these diseases safely and effectively.
Vision
EDCARN provides technical expertise to help set and implement standards for quality management of patients with EIDs, serving as a catalyst and operational arm for treatment, prevention, and clinical research. EDCARN also includes a pool of expert clinicians to be deployed during outbreaks for technical support, training and mentoring of the local, national and international health workforce.
Who we are
EDCARN is a network of clinicians and other subject-matter experts involved in the clinical management of and research into EIDs, including experts from governmental and non-governmental organizations, academia, WHO, and other stakeholders. EDCARN is coordinated and administered by the WHO Clinical Management Unit in the Pandemic & Epidemic Diseases Department at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, over 80 clinical experts and 20 institutions are actively collaborating in EDCARN.
Publications
This compilation of images of mpox lesions shows examples of the effects of monkeypox virus infection on the skin and mucosa.The Atlas has been developed...
13 January 2023
Therapeutics and COVID-19: Living guideline, 13 January 2023
The WHO Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline contains the most up-to-date recommendations for the use of therapeutics in the treatment...
The WHO COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance contains the most up-to-date recommendations for the clinical management of people...
This publication has been superseded by a new version, dated 15 September 2022.Version dated 15 September 2022The WHO COVID-19 Clinical management:...
Related links
EDCARN newsletter: 2016 in review
With the start of the new year, we would like to take this opportunity to reflect on our activities and successes of 2016. The most substantial change of the year was our transition to the WHO Health Emergencies Programme.
The Emerging Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN) has been officialised under the new structure. It is now in the Expert Networks sub-unit of WHO’s Health Emergency Programme, with the laboratory network and epidemiology, modelling and forecasting network.
How to get involved
For further information or to get involved with EDCARN, please contact us at [email protected]
For more information or to be added to the EDCARN listserv, please contact EDCARN Secretariat