In March 2016, the Third International Workshop on Participatory Surveillance (IWOPS III) was held in Australia, bringing together both established and emerging participatory surveillance systems. The workshop convened international public health practitioners in a three-day workshop to enhance collaboration, improve data sharing, and share best practices among partners in order to strengthen the field of participatory surveillance in various regions of the world. Participants shared results from resource, surveillance, and public engagement efforts connected to participatory disease surveillance systems.
The following organizations participated in this workshop:
- Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech (United States)
- Brazilian Ministry of Health (Brazil)
- Burnet Institute (Australia)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)
- Chiang Mai University (Thailand)
- Epitrack (Brazil)
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
- HealthMap (United States)
- Hunter Medical Research Institute / FluTracking (Australia)
- Hunter New England Population Health (Australia)
- Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (United States / Cambodia)
- ISI Foundation / Influenzanet (Italy)
- Opendream (Thailand)
- National University of Ireland / Influenzanet (Ireland)
- Science in Action / Influenzanet (Netherlands)
- Skoll Global Threats Fund (United States)
- Southern Africa Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (Tanzania)
- Southeast European Center for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases (Albania)
- Statens Serum Institut / Influenzanet (Denmark)
- University of Zaragoza / Influenzanet (Spain)
The workshop provided a forum for practitioners to share best practices around self-reporting systems, methods for optimizing public engagement, data sharing and analysis, and the future of participatory surveillance with new technology. Participants from the workshop collaborated to develop a set of peer-reviewed manuscripts that will be submitted for publication in 2016.
