{
  "id": 12624760,
  "title": "Collaborative surveillance implementation guide",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/collaborative-surveillance-implementation-guide",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-07T12:01:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "WHO Africa",
    "slug": "who-africa",
    "url": "https://www.afro.who.int/publications/collaborative-surveillance-implementation-guide"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "Collaborative surveillance implementation guide orlunwop@who.int Wed, 07/10/2026 - 13:01 At the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly in May 2022, the WHO Director- General presented a harmonized framework to strengthen the global architecture for health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience (HEPR).8 The framework was developed within the context of negotiations towards a new WHO…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}