Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance

[1] As of 2021, CORDS was composed of "six regional member networks, working in 28 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

In 1997, the PPHSN set up PacNet, in order to "share timely information on disease outbreaks" and "to ensure appropriate action was taken in response to public health threats.

[1] In 2001, was formed the Southeastern European Health Network (SEEHN) which grouped the governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

[1] The growth of the CORDS can be categorised into several overlapping phases:[1] In 2005, the International Health Regulations (IHR) mandated official reporting of certain types of disease outbreaks to WHO.

"[1] In 2009 the RF used funds from NTI to "create a community of practice" named CORDS,[1][4] which in 2012 was concretized in Lyon France as a legal, non-profit international organization.