South Asia Regional Collaboration Workshop

DAY 1

South Asia Regional Collaboration Workshop

TOPIC: REGIONAL NETWORKING

Q-A. How would a network like CORDS or OHASA be most impactful in your country and/or the region?

Q-B. What are your expectations of a South Asia regional network?

Q-C. What are the major challenges in communicating disease outbreaks with your neighboring countries? What would you like to be able to share and within what time frame?

Q-D. What would be the priority disease(s), policies and/or projects that the network should address?

Q-E. How can a regional network in South Asia be sustained long term?

South Asia Regional Collaboration Workshop

TOPIC: DATA SHARING / REAL TIME COMMUNICATION

Q-A. How do you share data/information on emerging threats? Examples for conversation can include polio, bird flu, MERS, etc.

Q-B. How is information shared across/between sectors (animal-human-environment)?

Q-C. What type of national or regional coordination would occur around the epiinvestigation?

Q-D. What are the formal/informal disease detection/reporting systems you rely on in your daily work?

Q-E. What has been the impact of the International Health Regulations in your country and regionally?

South Asia Regional Collaboration Workshop

DAY 2

South Asia Regional Collaboration Workshop

TOPIC: HOT TOPICS

GROUP A: Risk Communication

GROUP B: Diagnostics/Laboratory Capacity

GROUP C: Become a ProMED South Asia moderator

GROUP D: Group Choice #1

GROUP E: Group Choice #2

South Asia Regional Collaboration Workshop

TOPIC: SOUTH ASIA NETWORK

Q-A. How should a South Asia regional network operate? What would be a five-year vision?

Q-B. What are the next steps to make network sustainable?

Q-C. What would be the minimum requirements for regional cooperation or cross border data sharing?

Q-D. How would you establish a multi-sectoral communication plan within country?

Q-E. What surveillance activities could you conduct jointly, and who would lead?