Early warning, alert and response to acute public health events in refugee-hosting countries: Ukraine crisis

Overview

This document serves as an advocacy and quick assessment tool for public health responders in refugee-hosting countries to evaluate and strengthen early warning, alert and response (‎EWAR)‎ capacities in the two aforementioned principal settings relevant to refugee and population health. It does not intend to propose that new structures be established in parallel to replicate already well-functioning systems, but rather to look at opportunities to strengthen core capacities and ensure epidemic threats are appropriately monitored to allow for timely detection and response – especially in scenarios where new health care settings may need to be assessed, scaled up and linked to already established systems.