World Health Organization

Potential health emergencies rapidly detected, and risks assessed and communicated

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Description

The Secretariat will support countries to: track and rapidly report public health events and emergencies; conduct outbreak investigations and risk assessments to manage and reduce acute public health risks; and work with countries to improve national surveillance systems, providing updated guidance for early warning, surveillance and response and the deployment of training, tools and solutions (such as EIOS; the Early Warning, Alert and Response System; Go.Data; and the Outbreak Toolkit); strengthen capacity at the national and subnational levels to collect and identify new, potentially threatening pathogens; strengthen public health emergency operations centres; and improve compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005) in the areas of detection, verification, assessment and communication on the Event Information Site platform; strengthen the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of early warnings, alerts and responses at country level, as an integrated element of routine surveillance, and implement information indicators to share for risk-assessment purposes; and conduct outbreak investigations and risk assessments to manage and reduce acute public health risks, including vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks as part of the polio transition. The Secretariat will: build on the existing suite of tools for scanning and verifying potential threats to public health in order to develop a global data ecosystem harnessing artificial intelligence to predict, detect and analyse health threats more effectively, enhancing global public health intelligence, and enabling evidence-based rapid action to save more lives; alert the global community about emerging risks, provide public health agencies with access to information on disease risk and threats, improve information exchange and ensure early and accurate risk assessments, working through the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), and other platforms; publish a global early warning and surveillance strategy to advocate for and improve the harmonization of multistakeholder surveillance data and enhanced data-sharing in order to strengthen early detection at country level; and commit to ensuring that technological solutions and algorithms that are developed under the EIOS initiative are open-source under appropriate open-access licensing models.

Objectives

Health emergencies rapidly detected and responded to

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Zambia

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