The global threat of emerging infectious diseases and the role of WHO

By Adjunct Prof Leo Yee Sin, from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS; Prof Hitoshi Oshitani, from the Dept of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine; and Dr Keiji Fukuda, Special Representative for Antimicrobial Resistance to the Director‑General, World Health Organization