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IOA Network Session: Update on the upcoming Early Warning Alert and Response (EWAR) in emergencies technical guidance

  • Aims to guide decision-making on when and how to implement and strengthen EWAR in a humanitarian emergency.  
  • It standardizes and consolidates existing guidance including WHO’s Outbreak Surveillance and Response in Humanitarian Emergencies (2012) and WHO’s Early Detection, Assessment and Response to Acute Public Health Events (2014). 
  • Aims is to provide updated guidance for modern surveillance practices that will be more easily understood and applied during a humanitarian emergency.
2_EWARS in emergencies_IOA meeting_17 March 2022 (1)
Author(s)
Elburg van Boetzelaer (WHO, Ruwan Ratnayake (WHO)
Publication date
18 March 2022
Languages
English
Country
Global
Files available for download
2-EWARS in emergencies_IOA meeting_17 March 2022 (PDF, 613.16 KB)
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