This session is for staff members at global NGOs who can speak to the needs and opportunities within your organization to advance direct community engagement for disease surveillance.
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Purpose
Ending Pandemics seeks to better understand the disease surveillance needs of global NGOs in service of your respective communities. We are excited at the prospect of working with NetHope members to help design, implement, and scale technological solutions to meet the growing threat of disease outbreaks.
Session Overview
On March 24th 2022, NetHope and Ending Pandemics will host a consultation with NetHope members to explore NetHope members’ needs for community engagement in disease surveillance and current use of technological solutions for the early detection of disease outbreaks among displaced, underserved, and migrant communities. We’re looking specifically at supporting efforts to enhance or build new technological solutions for direct community engagement in disease surveillance, also known as Participatory Surveillance.
Participatory Surveillance is defined as the bi-directional process of receiving and transmitting information for action through direct engagement of the target population. This approach is currently in use across the globe for early detection and rapid response to potential outbreaks.
In the discussion, we hope to get your feedback and ideas on these three questions:
Following this session, Ending Pandemics will assess the needs of NetHope members to directly engage their communities in disease surveillance. This information will guide Ending Pandemics to understand whether there is a role we can play in meeting this need through technical assistance and/or catalytic funding.
About Ending Pandemics: Ending Pandemics works with countries to improve their early disease detection and response capabilities. Based on the need, this can include developing a participatory surveillance system, partnering with the private sector to leverage funding for early detection and response or providing catalytic funding and technical support to develop data visualization for action.
