Surveillance
The Prevention & Public Health Group (PPHG) excels in providing training, technical assistance, and active mentoring in a variety of effective methodologies for international HIV surveillance. Essential to our approach are surveillance tools that can be locally adapted and used to produce high-quality, reliable data that will inform policy and programs that will improve the health of HIV-affected populations and reduce the spread of the virus.
To help scientists, officials, and health professionals advance their ability to gather such data, we have developed a series of HIV surveillance training modules in close collaboration with other leaders in the field, including US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and Tulane University. The modules provide training in basic HIV and STI surveillance, behavioral surveillance, and advanced surveillance techniques based on the principles of “third” generation surveillance, which emphasizes triangulation, or the synthesis of data from multiple sources. Building on the core themes of the modules, we conduct surveillance workshops shaped to the needs of participants.
Our team assists in the design and implementation of surveys. We also provide technical assistance in performing surveillance data analysis and producing surveillance reports and other publications that present surveillance data clearly and effectively for specific audiences.
PPHG is deeply invested in helping our partners throughout the world perform HIV and STI surveillance, acquire useful data, and present quality results for the purposes of informed decision making, policy development, and programmatic responses to the epidemic.
Funders
GHS surveillance activities receive funding from a variety of U.S. government, international, and private sources including:
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
under The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) - World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Health Organization Regional Offices for Africa (AFRO)
- World Health Organization Regional Offices for South-East Asia (SEARO)
- World Health Organization Regional Offices for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)
Collaborators
GHS surveillance unit has a long working relationship with the following partners: