The Role of Community-based Surveillance in Global Health Security

Join the USAID Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS) project’s latest webinar, which will feature global perspectives on community-based surveillance (CBS) within pandemic preparedness and response efforts, highlighting Mali’s approaches to integrating CBS into the health system, and elaborating on implementation realities at the community level in Senegal. 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. 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 through community-based surveillance, including event-based surveillance.