Eyes on the Future: Building Collaborative Intelligence to Prevent the Next Pandemic

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
20minModule 1From Epidemic Intelligence to One Health Intelligence
30minModule 2The Power of Participatory Surveillance (PS)
30minModule 3Global Flu View: Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) Surveillance
BREAK
60minModule 4Designing your own One Health Participatory Surveillance system
20minModule 5EpiCore: Crowdsourcing for Outbreak Verification
5 minWorkshop Evaluation and Participant Feedback

SPEAKERS


Dr Mark Smolinski

Ending Pandemics


Dr Onicio Leal Neto

University of Arizona