Abstract (by author) > Harena RASAMOELINA

Harena RASAMOELINA is an epidemiologist in human and animal health. He is the coordinator of the Indian Ocean Commission's Epidemiological Surveillance and Alert Management Network-One Health (SEGA-One Health) and the Indian Ocean's Center for Disease Control and Prevention-One Health (CDC-One Health-IO).

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Setting up surveillance of non-communicable diseases linked to climate change as part of the Indian Ocean Commission's SEGA-One Health network

The Epidemiological Surveillance and Alert Management (SEGA) network is the IOC's operational public health mechanism. Set up after the chikungunya crisis in 2006 to share health information between member states' Ministries of Health, it quickly developed into a regional mechanism for health security. Animal health was introduced in 2013, giving the network a One Health dimension. It has enabled us to detect and respond to various infectious disease epidemics in human health (plague, dengue fever, covid-19, etc.) as well as in animal health (foot-and-mouth disease, etc.).

Since 2018, the SEGA network has also added climate-environment in order to have all the pillars of its One Health approach. Considering the weight of non-communicable diseases for IOC member states and the opportunity offered by this network, the surveillance of non-communicable diseases has been integrated since 2021, in a context of islands vulnerable to climate change. This paper presents the methodological and contextual framework for setting up this climate/noncommunicable disease surveillance within the SEGA-One Health network.

Specific surveillance systems to capture the health impacts of non-communicable diseases, knowledge production, meteorological monitoring and early warning systems are all approaches that are combined to respond. The results will support the deployment of adaptation and mitigation measures against the impacts of climate change on healthcare systems in the region.