EIOS Newsletter April 2021

Overview

The April 2021 newsletter aims to reflect and update on some of the latest changes and continuous efforts to strengthen PHI activities. The spotlight articles offers a glimpse into the complex effort that is event-based surveillance for COVID-19 at WHO, from both a headquarter and a regional perspective, and exemplifies how needs and surveillance efforts evolved over different stages in the pandemic. Training reports take the reader from Rwanda over the Middle East and all the way to the subnational level in Brazil. And last but not least, representatives from Egypt, one of the first Member States to join the EIOS initiative in 2019, give us an update on the role of EIOS in the country.