Global Virus Network (GVN)

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Global Virus Network (GVN)

The Global Virus Network (GVN) is an independent, not-for-profit, 501c3 organization comprised of centers of excellence in medical virology worldwide, each directed by a recognized expert in human viral diseases. The GVN is a global authority and resource for the identification and investigation, control and suppression, of viral diseases posing threats to mankind. The GVN does not duplicate the activities of other public health organizations, but partners with them and established surveillance networks to provide a coordinated and integrated global response to viral threats. . . .
The GVN was established in March 2011 by Drs. Robert Gallo of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, Reinhard Kurth, of the Robert Koch Institute Berlin, and William Hall, of University College Dublin, along with over 30 other leading medical virologists representing nearly two dozen countries, including Argentina, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia (in collaboration with Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine), South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This list is growing with several additional GVN centers in formation.

There are four fundamental goals within the mission of the GVN:

1. Create a network of experts on medically important viruses, in partnership with existing surveillance programs and public health organizations, to control viral threats by providing a rapid, coordinated response and research approach.
2. Build collaborative research alliances within the network to undertake focused research on diseases with known or suspected viral causes that require specialized expertise from multiple members.
3. Mitigate the critical lack of current and future medical virologists through practical training programs.
4. Educate governments, public health organizations and the public on viral threats, and advocate for research and training to address viral threats to mankind. . . .

more at: http://www.ihv.org/programs/gvn.html

GVN website: http://www.gvn.org/index.html

From the GVN web site:

LEADING VIRAL THREATS

Number 1 Threat, Infectious Respiratory Diseases: Influenza, RSV, Measles

Number 2 Threat, AIDS/HIV

Number 3 Threat, Virus-Associated Cancer from Transforming Viruses: HPV, HTLV, EBV, KSHV

Number 4 Threat, Virus-Associated Cancer Indirectly Caused by HIV, HCV, HBV

Number 5 Threat, Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Effects in Relation to Polio, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, VZV, YFV, HPV, Influenza

Number 6 Threat, Viral Hepatitis: HBV, HCV, HAV

Number 7 Threat, Insect-Borne Diseases: Dengue, JEV, WNV, RVF

Number 8 Threat, Enteric Viruses: Polio, Calicivirus

Number 9 Threat, Hemorrhagic Fevers: LFV, Ebola, Hantavirus, YFV

Number 10 Threat, Re-Emergence of Pox Virus Diseases: Vaccinia, cowpox, monkeypox

Number 11 Threat, Neurodegeneration: Prions, JCV

Number 12 Threat, Diseases of Unknown Etiology

Links to three GVN newsletters: http://www.gvn.org/news-news.html