WEBINAR
THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY-BASED SURVEILLANCE IN GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY
Thursday, June 15, 2023
9:00 am – 10:15 am EDT
Register here (GoToWebinar): https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6329477654950670681
Webinar ID: 277-701-347
Join us for the fifth webinar in a series to highlight diagnostic and surveillance best practices and lessons learned from the USAID Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS) project.
Community-based surveillance (CBS) is used for early detection of potentially epidemic diseases through reporting by community members. CBS enables the systematic detection and reporting of events of public health significance at the source. CBS uses two strategies: monitoring of indicators in the form of community case definitions to identify diseases (indicator-based surveillance), and reporting of unusual events that represent an acute risk to human health (event-based surveillance). When using the indicator-based approach, countries select specific diseases, such as measles, cholera, polio, and viral hemorrhagic fevers, and conduct surveillance at the community level. USAID’s Global Health Security program, through its technical partners, has enhanced surveillance systems for diseases with epidemic and epizootic potential using the One Health approach [https://onehealthinitiative.com/about/] through community-based surveillance, including event-based surveillance. With the One Health approach, community workers affiliated with human, animal, and environmental sectors look for and report events in their respective communities.
IDDS has supported the implementation of CBS in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, and Vietnam, including integrating COVID-19 reporting into CBS interventions. The webinar will feature global perspectives on CBS within pandemic preparedness and response efforts, highlight Mali’s approaches to integrating CBS into the health system, and elaborate on implementation realities at the community level in Senegal from a community health worker.
Speakers
Ochi Akwiwu-Ibe – Overview
Deputy Project Director, IDDS
Doudou Diop – Moderator
Surveillance Lead, IDDS
Ngone Diop
Community Health Worker
Tambacounda, Senegal
Cheryl Kamin
Senior Infectious Disease Advisor, USAID
Alternate Contracting Officer’s Representative, IDDS
Yacouba Kone
Head of Division of Disease Surveillance and Response
Ministry of Health, Mali
Etien Luc Koua
Emergency Health Information Management and Risk Assessment Manager, WHO Regional Office for Africa
Dorothy Peprah
Senior Global Health Security Agenda Advisor, USAID
IDDS is a six-year project that operates in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia where there are significant gaps in health systems’ ability to detect, track, and rapidly respond to infectious diseases and drug-resistant infections that pose a major threat to public health and global health security.
HIFA profile: Emily Nink is a Senior Health Technical Writer at Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS), Rockville, MD USA. iddsproject.org Emily.Nink AT icf.com
