Collaborative surveillance implementation guide

The Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly in May 2022 saw the WHO Director-General introduce a unified framework aimed at enhancing global health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience (HEPR). This framework emerged from discussions on a new WHO convention or agreement concerning pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.

It draws upon over 300 recommendations from independent reviews of the COVID-19 response, reports on earlier outbreaks, and input from Member States, as well as ongoing multilateral consultations. The framework acknowledges that successful prevention, preparedness, detection, response, and recovery from health emergencies at various levels require operational readiness across five linked components: collaborative surveillance, community protection, safe and scalable clinical care, access to countermeasures, and emergency coordination. Collaborative surveillance is a critical pillar of WHO's strategic approach to HEPR.