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.