Hola Ana Maria! It’s great to hear that El Salvador is embracing the One Health approach – and timely too as we have just launched a new website for One Health use cases (see: dhis2.org/one-health, as well as a new toolkit that supports the use of DHIS2 for animal health you can see a summary of the resources and links in this COP post). This particular toolkit supports the expansion of DHIS2 already widely used for public health surveillance, to also support surveillance of diseases in animals e.g. through Ministries of Livestock and Agriculture. This is a key step towards facilitating cross-sector information sharing and strengthening the early detection of zoonotic diseases and spillovers from animal to human populations.
Different countries have taken different approaches. I hope colleagues from some of the implementing countries will join the discussion here. We had a few fantastic and relevant presentations at the DHIS2 Annual Conference last week (look for the Animal Health Surveillance session and the Local Innovations for Health: Africa Spotlight sessions) that should be available on our YouTube channel sometime soon: https://www.youtube.com/@DHIS2org
Also, you may have heard about our emerging work on Climate & Health (see: dhis2.org/climate). Recently our colleague @Enzo gave a webinar in Spanish on the new DHIS2 climate app, also available on our YouTube channel). These resources might be helpful if the Ministry is also considering how to bring climate and environmental data into a digital One Health platform.
We look forward to hearing more about El Salvador’s emerging interests and potential use of DHIS2!
Un saludo,
Rebecca