The Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network: A Multicountry Public Health Collaboration

Respiratory viruses represent a significant public health threat. There is the need for robust and coordinated surveillance to guide global health responses. Established in 2012, the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) addresses this need by collecting clinical and virological data on persons with acute respiratory illnesses across a network of hospitals worldwide. GIHSN utilizes a standardized patient enrolment and data collection protocol across its study sites. It leverages pre-existing national infrastructures and expert collaborations to facilitate comprehensive data collection. This includes demographic, clinical, epidemiological, and virologic data, and whole genome sequencing (WGS) for a subset of viruses. Sequencing data are shared in the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID). GIHSN uses financing and governance approaches centered around public-private partnerships. Over time, GIHSN has included more than 100 hospitals across 27 countries and enrolled more than 168,000 hospitalized patients, identifying 27,562 cases of influenza and 44,629 of other respiratory viruses. GIHSN has expanded beyond influenza to include other respiratory viruses, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2023, GIHSN strengthened its global impact through a memorandum of understanding with the World Health Organization, aimed at enhancing collaborative efforts and data sharing for improved health responses. GIHSN exemplifies the value of integrating scientific research with public health initiatives through global collaboration and public-private partnerships governance. Future efforts should enhance the scalability of such models and ensure their sustainability through continued public and private support.

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Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
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2025-03-01
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https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.70091
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Abstract

Respiratory viruses represent a significant public health threat. There is the need for robust and coordinated surveillance to guide global health responses. Established in 2012, the Global Influenza Hospital Surveillance Network (GIHSN) addresses this need by collecting clinical and virological data on persons with acute respiratory illnesses across a network of hospitals worldwide. GIHSN utilizes a standardized patient enrolment and data collection protocol across its study sites. It leverages pre-existing national infrastructures and expert collaborations to facilitate comprehensive data collection. This includes demographic, clinical, epidemiological, and virologic data, and whole genome sequencing (WGS) for a subset of viruses. Sequencing data are shared in the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID). GIHSN uses financing and governance approaches centered around public-private partnerships. Over time, GIHSN has included more than 100 hospitals across 27 countries and enrolled more than 168,000 hospitalized patients, identifying 27,562 cases of influenza and 44,629 of other respiratory viruses. GIHSN has expanded beyond influenza to include other respiratory viruses, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2023, GIHSN strengthened its global impact through a memorandum of understanding with the World Health Organization, aimed at enhancing collaborative efforts and data sharing for improved health responses. GIHSN exemplifies the value of integrating scientific research with public health initiatives through global collaboration and public-private partnerships governance. Future efforts should enhance the scalability of such models and ensure their sustainability through continued public and private support.

Influenza and Other Respiratory VirusesVol. 19(3)
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR), South African Medical Research Council (ZA), École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (FR), University of Maryland, Baltimore (US), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), Dalhousie University (CA), National Institutes of Health (US), Patan Academy of Health Sciences (NP), World Meteorological Organization (CH), University of Cartagena (CO), Inserm (FR), Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (RO), University of Novi Sad (RS), National University of San Marcos (PE), University of the Witwatersrand (ZA), Université Paris Cité (FR), Fudan University (CN), Medical University of Warsaw (PL), Fondation de France (FR), The Francis Crick Institute (GB), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KE), Hôpital Cochin (FR), Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana (ES), Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (FR), Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (MX), Hospices Civils de Lyon (FR), Hospital Erasto Gaertner (BR), Ministry of Health (UA), Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud (AR), National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences (RO), Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (RU), The Task Force for Global Health (US), National Institute of Public Health (CZ), Institut Pasteur de Dakar (SN), Research Institute of Influenza (RU), Institut Pasteur de Tunis (TN), SGS (Canada) (CA), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (FR), National Institute of Health (PK), Institut National d’Hygiène Publique (CI), Universidade Federal do Paraná (BR), Hacettepe University (TR), Fogarty International Center (US), University of Hong Kong (HK), American University of Beirut (LB), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Sanofi, Fondation de France, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
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