
Mission and Objectives
This training will focus on three areas: One Health Intelligence, Participatory Surveillance, and
Outbreak Verification.
- This training will be based on real world examples that are part of the Ending Pandemics Academy portfolio of novel approaches and systems
- Majority of the workshop will be devoted to interactive learning and will highlight the importance of One Health Intelligence
- The workshop will expose participants to real world examples of One Health Participatory Surveillance
- Participants will be able to put theory to practise through exercises that will provide them with the skills to design a Participatory Surveillance system relevant to their local context
- Hands-on interaction with the novel disease verification system, EpiCore, highlighting how such approaches can rapidly verify if an early warning signal is real
Intended Audience
Participants from all sectors are welcome:
- Public health professionals
- Animal health professionals
- Environmental health professionals
- Non-profit sector leaders
- Private sectors leaders
- Senior health officials
Expected Outcomes
- Understand the relevance of One Health Intelligence to pandemic preparedness
- Understand how Participatory Surveillance is aiding in early outbreak detection and behaviour change in disease hotspots across the globe
- Become familiar with the Participatory Surveillance Landscape map as a global resource for designing a new Participatory Surveillance system
- Obtain necessary skills to develop your own Participatory Surveillance system for your own community using a specialized toolkit
- Develop proficiency with the EpiCore global outbreak verification system to elicit One Health Intelligence for rapid verification
FORMAT AND SCHEDULE
This workshop is designed to be highly interactive with audience participation. The
modules are designed to facilitate learning through hands-on use of existing tools and
systems that are improving One Health Epidemic Intelligence today. Participants are
requested to bring their own laptop or tablet devices.
Time | Module | Topic |
20min | Module 1 | From Epidemic Intelligence to One Health Intelligence |
30min | Module 2 | The Power of Participatory Surveillance (PS) |
30min | Module 3 | Global Flu View: Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) Surveillance |
– | – | BREAK |
60min | Module 4 | Designing your own One Health Participatory Surveillance system |
20min | Module 5 | EpiCore: Crowdsourcing for Outbreak Verification |
5 min | Workshop Evaluation and Participant Feedback |
SPEAKERS

Ending Pandemics

University of Arizona