The overall aim of GLEWS is to improve the early warning and response capacity to animal disease threats of the three sister organizations for the benefit of the international community.
Specific objectives of GLEWS:
- Allow member countries to better prepare themselves to prevent incursion of animal diseases/infection and enable their rapid containment
- Improve the detection of exceptional epidemiological events at country level
- Increase timelines and sensitivity of alerts
- Improve transparency among countries and compliance with reporting to OIE
- Improve field animal health information quality in near real time
- Improve national surveillance and monitoring systems and strengthen networks that include public health, medical and veterinary laboratories working with zoonotic pathogens.
- Improve international preparedness for animal and zoonotic epidemics and provide rapid, efficient and coordinated assistance to countries experiencing them.
- Improve the capacity of the three organizations for early detection of new emerging disease threats, including zoonoses
- Provide technical support to regions/nations on issues at the animal/human interface of outbreak control
- Improve integration of human and animal surveillance allowing for simultaneous recognition of disease occurrence across species