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
Workshop 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
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
Provisional Format
The workshop will be organized as a half-day activity with several modules
- Module 1: From Epidemic Intelligence to One Health Intelligence
- Module 2: The Power of Participatory Surveillance
- Module 3: Designing your own Participatory Surveillance system
- Module 4: Crowdsourcing Outbreak Verification: EpiCore
- Module 5: Simulation exercises using EpiCore for Outbreak Verification
- Module 6: Looking Ahead, Evaluation and Survey
SPEAKERS
Mark Smolinski
MD, MPH Dr. Mark Smolinski brings over 30 years of experience in applying innovative solutions to improve pandemic preparedness across the globe by combining science and technology for early detection and rapid response in planetary hotpots for emerging diseases. Mark has served as Chief Medical Officer for the Skoll Foundation, member of the startup team at Google.org, and Study Director of the National Academies’ 2003 landmark report, Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response. Mark also served as the sixth Luther Terry Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and an Epidemic Intelligence Officer with the U.S. CDC.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-steven-smolinski-69873b6/
Jas Mantero
MD, PhD Dr. Jaś Mantero is an independent global health consultant covering epidemic intelligence tasks both at governmental and non-governmental levels. He has worked in this field for the past 18 years with a focus on early detection, verification, assessment, and response at various agencies including the World Health Organization, European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control, Doctors without Borders (MSF), and the European Union. Jaś has collaborated with Ending Pandemics since 2017 on projects in support of national and subnational health authorities on Event-Based Surveillance and One Health Intelligence. He is also the focal point for the EpiCore project.
LinkedIn: www://linkedin.com/in/jas-mantero
Onicio Leal Neto
MPH, PhD Dr. Onicio B. Leal Neto, PhD in Public Health and Epidemiology, integrates technology into global health initiatives. Previously, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Zurich and senior researcher at ETH Zurich. Currently, he is faculty in Digital Epidemiology at the University of Arizona, leading the Global Flu View. He advised organizations including UNICEF, Ending Pandemics, IDB, PAHO, Novo Nordisk, and Itaú bank on AI and data innovation. His expertise includes wearables, crowdsourcing platforms, and advanced analytics. He founded and sold Epitrack, a startup focused on digital health and data.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onicio/
Instagram: @onicio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onicioneto
X: @onicioneto
Primary contact person’s full names*
Mark Smolinski
mark@endingpandemics.org
Jaś Mantero
eispecialist@endingpandemics.org
Onicio Leal Neto
onicio@arizona.edu
Nomita Divi – NO LONGER ABLE TO ATTEND
Contact person’s phone or WhatsApp number*
Mark- 1-415-533-4144
Jas- +39 345 9737775
Onicio – 520-279-9069
Preferred number of participants
Upto 40