EYE WEBINAR: Go.Data yellow fever outbreak investigation template 

We invite you to our next webinar to inform you about the Go.Data platform and the new yellow fever outbreak investigation template. The webinar is being held on Tuesday, 7th December 2021 between 3pm to 5pm Central European Time.

The webinar will also provide an an overview of the EYE learning strategy and training courses. 

Register here:

To register, please use this link: https://who.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscuuoqz0uGd233cP5TH_-_dA8a4EjFzye

Joining instructions will be sent to you on registration.   

Interpretation will be available from English into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. Any presentations in French will also be translated into English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

When you join the webinar on Zoom, to find your preferred language, go to the bottom of the screen and click on the 'interpretation button', as per the image below.

Agenda*

- Welcome & opening remarks

- Presentation of the Go.Data platform for outreach investigation and data collection - Sara Hollis (Epidemiologist, WHO)

- Guinea update on outbreak investigation (in French) – presenter to be confirmed (TBC)

- Overview of the Go.Data yellow fever template to support outbreak investigation – Franck Stephane Mbeh Tenekeu (EYE learning strategy consultant, EYE Secretariat)

- Overview of the EYE learning strategy – Franck Stephane Mbeh Tenekeu (EYE learning strategy consultant, EYE Secretariat)

- Upcoming Open WHO courses –  Natalia Romero (EYE Training Development Support Consultant)

- Questions and answers from the participants

*subject to change

Submit your questions

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We look forward to seeing you next week. 

Rakhee Verma on behalf EYE Secretariat

Further event details:

Background on EYE

EYE stands for Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics. It is a joint initiative between the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Gavi, the vaccine alliance. We also have other important partners, such as the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This initiative has been in place since 2017 and will run through 2026. It was formed as a response to a deadly outbreak in Angola in 2016, which spread to the Democratic Republic of Congo and China.

Background on Go.Data

Go.Data is an outbreak response tool developed by the World Health Organization in collaboration with Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) partners.

The Go.Data platform is comprehensive and free for use by Member States and partners to support and facilitate field-level outbreak response activities. It includes functionality for case investigation, contact follow up and visualization of chains of transmission.

Yellow fever template

The Go.Data Yellow Fever Outbreak Template is designed to enable rapid and standardized set-up of field data collection parameters for investigation and contact tracing during yellow fever outbreaks. The template is aligned with the most recent WHO and partners’ outbreak investigation guidelines for yellow fever, and will help in collecting and managing information from cases, including laboratory information, hospitalization data and other variables. The validated outbreak can be generated in a matter of minutes for data collection by field surveillance officers.

What is the EYE learning strategy?