Protecting the leaders—syndromic surveillance for the G8 summit in Scotland |
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| Authors: | Chris Robertson |
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| Institution: | Head of Statistics at HPS and Professor of Public Health Epidemiology at Strathclyde University. His main research interests are in statistical applications and modelling in epidemiology. The G8 summit surveillance was a collaborative effort involving colleagues at HPS—Dr Jim McMeniman, Consultant Epidemiologist for Respiratory Infection, and Dr Nadia Meyer, Epidemiologist—and Dr Gwen Allardice, Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Strathclyde University. |
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| Abstract: | The G8 summit was held at the Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland, from July 6th to 8th, 2005. Leaders of the eight largest economies, and their entourages, assembled to discuss economic and political issues and the state of the world, including terrorism. Previous G8 summits had sparked off waves of protests and violence. Consequently, a huge security exercise took place in central Scotland for the 2005 summit. With Bush, Putin, Blair and a clutch of other premiers on hand, their safety had to be protected—as did their health, and that of those around them. Chris Robertson was charged with that task. |
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