Potential health emergencies rapidly detected, and risks assessed and communicated The Secretariat will step up leadership by:
maintaining a public health intelligence function to support the detection and verification of potential threats globally;
undertaking rapid risk assessments of new and ongoing acute public health events, in accordance with the Secretariat?s operational independence, and supporting access to relevant information by countries and subregional stakeholders;
ensuring management and coordination of acute events through sound strategic approaches, technical support and monitoring, and coordination of activities across the Secretariat, and leverage networks for collaborative intelligence and decision-making, and build interconnected multidisciplinary communities to cocreate advanced analytical and modelling tools;
generating meaningful, timely and ongoing public health information to monitor acute events and orient policy, including their epidemiological characteristics, identification of public health needs and threats, and monitoring of interventions; and
continuing to support the development and maintenance of global data systems for epidemic and pandemic intelligence that focuses on the development of a global data ecosystem to produce timely insights and tools for policy-makers before, during and after epidemic and pandemic events.

The Secretariat will support countries to:
manage, coordinate and monitor acute public health emergencies;
deliver appropriate health information services to respond to epidemics or acute humanitarian crises, including the implementation and strengthening of early warning and response to outbreaks; outbreak investigations and risk assessments, including strengthening field epidemiology;
detect, verify, risk assess and communicate on the Event Information Site (EIS) platform, improving compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005); and
generate timely information during and after responses, by supporting data management and analytics, and build capacity for it, and support countries in implementing appropriate digital solutions for health information and surveillance, including Go.Data.

In producing technical products on norms/standard, data and research, the Secretariat will:
produce regular global information products on acute events, disease risk and threats globally;
develop interim epidemiological guidance to support national, regional and global response during acute events and emergencies;
strengthen data-sharing platforms to connect and integrate multisectoral sources of information, including open access to tools and analysis to inform tactical and strategic operations and decision-making;
foster and coordinate information exchange during and outside of specific emergencies through the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN); and
develop and maintain a global surveillance data ecosystem harnessing artificial intelligence to predict, detect and analyse health threats more effectively, including ensuring that technological solutions and algorithms that are developed under the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS) initiative are open-source under appropriate open-access licensing models. Health emergencies rapidly detected and responded to