2024 EIOS Global Technical Meeting Highlights

Overview

The Meeting Highlights summary provides an overview of the 2024 EIOS Global Technical Meeting (GTM), co-hosted by WHO AFRO with support from HERA and held in Senegal from 10–12 December 2024. Bringing together nearly 200 participants from 70 countries under the theme “The Future of Public Health Intelligence,” the GTM offered a dynamic platform for the EIOS and broader PHI community to explore technological advancements, strengthen collaborative surveillance, and build workforce capacity. Hosting the event in Senegal underscored the growing importance of the WHO Dakar Hub and enabled strong engagement from African Member States, AFRO having onboarded the highest number of new countries in 2024. Through hands-on workshops, interactive sessions, and strategic discussions, participants emphasized the need for harmonized PHI frameworks, equitable and scalable AI tools, and mechanisms to sustain collaboration beyond the meeting. As the fifth GTM, and the second in-person since the pandemic, the meeting reaffirmed EIOS’s mission to advance global public health intelligence through innovation, partnership, and community-driven learning.