Arctech Innovation, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust, have released the findings of a major international landscape review and workshop examining the global data, tools, and infrastructure available for understanding mosquito-borne arboviral diseases.
Held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the workshop brought together over 60 experts from 20 countries, representing academia, government, industry, and policy. Delegates identified significant data fragmentation and underutilisation of analytical tools, highlighting the urgent need for more integrated, interoperable, and equitable data systems to track and predict outbreaks of dengue, chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever, and Rift Valley fever.
Key findings include:
• Weak surveillance networks across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
• A need for technologies and tools that support real-time data collection and two-way sharing between researchers, policymakers, and communities.
• The...