CORDS promotes global exchanges of best practices, surveillance tools and strategies, training courses, innovations, successful operating procedures, case studies and other technical data. CORDS will speed the development, capabilities and sustainability of all its network members to improve global surveillance to detect disease outbreaks early and mitigate their global impact. CORDS will through cutting edge molecular epidemiology techniques speed the detection of significant changes in endemic disease agents. CORDS has six founding regional disease surveillance networks, with plans to expand.
