Resolution 1.1 Education

On Education & Surveillance

Sponsors: Barbardos, Canada, Mongolia, Iran

Signatories: Ethiopia, Mauritius, Somalia, Australia, Argentina, Egypt, Botswana, Liberia, Uganda, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei, Sudan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Rwanda, Thailand, Pakistan, Mexico, Panama, Burkina Faso, Sweden, Guatemala, Namibia

Recognizing the critical role of education campaigns on disease prevention and health.

Affirming the need for equivalent access to information in both rural and urban populations

Confident that an extensive bottom-up health care provision network is key to tracking the progression of a pandemic.

Emphasizing the importance of early detection and early response in stemming the progression of infectious disease.

Calls upon member nations, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) and related NGOs to work with affected Nations to:

1. Implement and maintain culturally and linguistically appropriate educational and awareness campaigns about the pandemic (e.g., symptoms, incubation period, modes of transmission, methods of prevention, medical treatment)
   1. Acknowledging the collaboration of self-determined nations and their respective leaders as a resource to aid in the dissemination of information and acquisition of surveillance data where appropriate
      1. Self-determined nations are defined as groups that have previously been given self-determined political, economic, cultural and social status by independent national governments.
   2. Developing country-specific self-reporting systems (e.g., online, telephone reporting) based on the support of the National IHR Focus points so that information can be shared within and between countries’ health agencies
2. Urges the development of a three-tiered reporting reporting system, where
   1. At the national/country level, web-based (fashioned off the GPHIN system) and community-based surveillance methods are used to collect data on disease progression
      1. Such a committee would include the participation of two representatives: the national health minister and a representative of a rural/indigenous area
   2. At the regional level, national databases are brought together and discussed on a regular basis (Weekly updates during non-pandemic periods and daily updates during pandemic periods) via teleconference
   3. At the international level all pandemic research and data is communicated to WHO and to the rest of the international community