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Hold People Accountable to Their Peers

When your mission is to guard the globe against epidemics, success is not measured in dollars and cents but rather in lives saved and deaths prevented. When your work issues are literally matters of life and death, there's no time for bureaucracy. Disease control scientists know that collaboration is essential when speedy innovation is an imperative for containing a potential global pandemic. In one thirty-day period in the early spring of 2003, the world witnessed the remarkable efficiency of the mass collaboration of society's community of scientists, but because they did their work so well, most of us barely noticed.

In late November 2002, scientists at Canada's Global Public Health Intelligence Network ...

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