Adaptation of GUARDIAN for Syndromic Surveillance During the NATO Summit

Special event driven syndromic surveillance is often initiated by public health departments with limited time for development of an automated surveillance framework, which can result in heavy reliance on frontline care providers and potentially miss early signs of emerging trends. To address timelines and reliability issues, automated surveillance system are required.

Objective

To develop and implement a framework for special event surveillance using GUARDIAN, as well as document lessons learned postevent regarding design challenges and usability.