我认为疾控中心如果不借助于信息技术来开展工作的话,公共卫生工作的质量、效率、水平是不可能提升的。疾控中心作为公共卫生的主力军怎么样发挥作用,这是作为管理者一定要好好思考的问题。信息化是一个很好的手段,利用信息技术可以做好公共卫生监测。实际上,美国疾控中心、欧盟疾控中心都把疾病监测作为了疾控中心一项非常重要的工作。我也一直在呼吁做疾病监测,疾病监测是需要长期做的,五到十年后,这些监测数据将是 I think CDC can not improve the quality, efficiency and level of public health work if it does not rely on information technology. How CDCs play a role as the mainstay of public health is a question that managers must think carefully about. Informatization is a good method to make use of information technology to monitor public health. In fact, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention put disease surveillance as a very important task for CDCs. I have also been calling for disease surveillance. Disease surveillance needs to be done for a long time. After five to ten years, these monitoring data will be