Presentation
Rethinking surveillance in response
DescriptionWhile it is generally understood that surveillance is a critical component in delivering effective “situational awareness” and informing response decision-making, surveillance has quite often been driven by “random acts of surveillance” and not a systematic methodology. IPIECA hosted workshops in Europe and the United States with responders with significant experience and various degrees of surveillance sophistication to elicit, understand, document, and re-imagine what “strategic surveillance” should look like and consist of. This presentation will provide key findings and provide insights on how to organize and coordinate surveillance both in preparedness activities and during a response, defining and correlating needs and priorities, along with roles and responsibilities, and set up a Surveillance Unit, if needed. Surveillance planning steps have been identified, including identifying surveillance data needs, defining resource requirements, resource management, tasking, data handling, and communication. These steps have also been integrated with the “planning P” incident management model to visualize how the surveillance unit can most effectively and efficiently partner with and add value to the response. Finally, useful tools have been developed, including a one-page quick guide, job aids, and a surveillance planning unit checklist.
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Event Type
Paper
TimeTuesday, May 14th1:30pm - 1:50pm CDT
Location278-280
Prevention