Coordination with existing surveillance guidance and initiatives
The mosaic surveillance framework is in line with the collaborative
surveillance component of the WHO Global Architecture for Health
Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience (HEPR) (4). This tool
will evolve to ensure it meets countries’ needs and synchronizes with
the ongoing discussion for the pandemic convention accord + (CA+). This
tool also supports the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005,
specifically the core capacity requirements for surveillance and
response and the National Action Plans for Health Security (5) and will
be adapted if the ongoing discussion related to the revision of the
IHR(2005) requires it. Importantly, this framework is a conceptual
structure that underpins and supports current initiatives and does not
supersede any existing global or regional normative surveillance
guidance. Rather, it is intended to place the systems represented by
existing guidance into a context where they may address the objectives
for which they are best intended. The framework presents appropriate
uses of existing systems for respiratory virus surveillance and refers
to existing global and regional surveillance-specific guidance and
operating procedures wherever they exist.