Prioritising Infectious Disease Mapping
Fig 3
A “species accumulation” curve showing the cumulative number of diseases of interest sampled by increasing numbers of public health stakeholders examined.
The diseases of interest of twenty global health stakeholders was indexed and plotted (see Methods). As additional organisations are sampled beyond the fifteen used in this study, the number of unique diseases identified plateaus at around 42. Thus not all public health stakeholders need to be sampled to capture the global diversity of diseases of public health interest.