Surveilans penyakit adalah praktik epidemiologi yang memantau penyebaran penyakit. Peran utama pengawasan penyakit adalah untuk memprediksi, mengamati dan meminimalisir hal berbahaya yang disebabkan oleh situasi-situasi wabah, epidemi dan pandemi, serta meningkatkan pengetahuan soal faktor yang berkontribusi terhadap keadaan semacam itu. Bagian utama dari pengawasan penyakit modern adalah praktek pelaporan kasus penyakit.^[1]

• CDC: Influenza Activity – United States and Worldwide, 2003–2004 Season, and Composition of the 2004–2005 Influenza Vaccine
• Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network
• WHO Alert & Response Operations
• WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Web site
• WHO Avian Influenza Web site
• Sickweather Diarsipkan 2021-12-06 di Wayback Machine. The world's first real-time social media disease surveillance tool
• HealthMap The HealthMap real-time automated surveillance system is a program of Children's Hospital Boston with support from Google.org
• GermTrax Tracking the spread of sickness and disease with the help of social media
• ProMED-mail Diarsipkan 2007-12-26 di Wayback Machine. The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins, open to all sources. ProMED-mail, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases with the support and encouragement of the Federation of American Scientists and SatelLife. [1] [2]