# Engaging the CHT Community: EBS Learning Session **URL:** \ **Category:** COVID-19\ **Tags:** community, learning-session\ **Created:** [April 21, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/engaging-the-cht-community-ebs-learning-session/731 "2020-04-21T22:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![helenelizabeth](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/helenelizabeth/32/125_2.png) [@helenelizabeth](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/helenelizabeth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/engaging-the-cht-community-ebs-learning-session/731/1 "2020-04-21T22:21:55Z")
As a follow-up to the Community Health Toolkit development demo application for Community Event-Based Surveillance, which we covered in [this post](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/new-app-supporting-event-based-surveillance-for-covid-19/701), Medic Mobile is holding a series of _ **Learning Sessions** _ to discuss COVID use cases with members of the CHT community. > In our first _ **Learning Session** _, co-led by @kenn, we focused on design and implementation considerations for Event-Based Surveillance in the context of COVID. Our attendees spanned partner organizations, including representatives from BRAC, D-Tree, and others, as well as Medic Mobile staff members across our Partnerships, Delivery, Product, App Services, and Research & Learning teams. There are multiple community partners evaluating, designing, building, or operating Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) systems built on the CHT as part of their COVID response. The goal of this first session was to bring representatives from each project together to share a brief overview of their system requirements and design approach so we can better understand how the proposed systems are similar/different, and if opportunities exist to collaborate. We’d like to share our takeaways and next steps. **Takeaways** - Deployment requirements are often dictated by country-specific MoH partners and vary from location to location - and may change over time as triage protocols evolve during COVID - Available telecom infrastructure and the use of feature phones vs. smartphones has implications on design, development, and deployment of an EBS workflow - Early engagement on service design, including diagrams of C-EBS and H-EBS workflows, form fields, and associated data structures are useful resources to share across the community - Continued engagement across partners and projects would be useful in order to learn from our successes and challenges in implementing and scaling EBS in the context of COVID **Next Steps** - We will be holding a follow-up Learning Session in two weeks time and will post information on this thread! - We will proactively share service design resources and information on requirements with one another to learn about the different variations of EBS being developed on the CHT Forum A huge thank you to everyone who participated and we look forward to continuing our learning together! ---
**Author:** ![munjoma](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/munjoma/32/194_2.png) [@munjoma](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/munjoma)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/engaging-the-cht-community-ebs-learning-session/731/2 "2020-08-25T10:19:18Z")
Hi @helenelizabeth, We (myself & @Jonathan_Fernandes) have set up a CHT app running [C-EBS](https://github.com/medic/config-covid/tree/master/ebs_with_tracing) and we in the process of learning and exploring how the workflows work. Do you by any chance have a recording of the > [@helenelizabeth](#): > > first _ **Learning Session** _ What the schedule for follow up learning sessions? cc @kenn ---
**Author:** ![helenelizabeth](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/helenelizabeth/32/125_2.png) [@helenelizabeth](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/helenelizabeth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/engaging-the-cht-community-ebs-learning-session/731/3 "2020-08-25T14:09:41Z")
Hi @munjoma, Thanks so much for reaching out and it’s great to hear that you’ve set-up the CHT running C-EBS. I believe we do have a recording of the learning session, I’ll see if I can link it on this thread. Best, Helen