In the article titled “Studying communication problems for emergency management of SARS and H7N9 in china”, published on pages 177-181, Issue 4, Volume 10 of Journal of Global Infectious Diseases,[1] the affiliation of Wuqi Qiu is written incorrectly as “Department of Public Health Information Research, Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Queensland, Australia” instead of “Department of Public Health Information Research, Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China”.