Since the second half of 2020, ProEpi has partnered with ECHO, and through this collaboration we have reached many health professionals using the ECHO method. The biggest challenge was integrating public health into case-study formats, which we achieved with great success. The first cycle ran from October to December 2020, attracting 420 registrants, 259 active participants, and 115 certificates issued across eight sessions covering topics relevant to the COVID-19 landscape.

In 2021, we recorded a total of 834 registrations across six sessions. All sessions were made available online via YouTube and have since garnered over 850 views. We reached participants in 14 different countries, including Angola, Australia, Colombia, and Cabo Verde, and 578 Brazilian municipalities.

Continuing this partnership, in 2022 we held five thematic sessions from May 19 to July 28, with a total of 1,338 registered participants:

In 2023, we began conducting the project independently and renamed it “Sharing Knowledge”, while maintaining the ECHO model and the mission of promoting the exchange of experiences and strengthening public health surveillance practices. In this new edition, we held four sessions, which brought together a total of 804 registrants.

• Environmental Health Surveillance: Case of exogenous intoxication in Marajó, with 114 registrants;
• Hospital Epidemiological Surveillance, with 158 registrants;
• Vector Control Program: The role of ACE in its reassessment and in achieving PQVAS targets, gathering 302 registrants;
• Surveillance from a New Perspective: Surveillance of events of public health importance, with 230 registrants.

Throughout the year, we held six major sessions, bringing together more than 300 participants. The sessions were::

• May 9: “Integrated response of surveillance systems to the cholera case in the state of Bahia: challenges and lessons learned”, with members of the National Center for Strategic Information in Health Surveillance (CIEVS) of Salvador and Bahia, the Directorate of Epidemiological Surveillance, and the Central Public Health Laboratory. It had more than 50 live participants.
• June 26: “Health Policy and the Unified Health System/ Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)”, bringing together 40 participants.
• July 25: “Health surveillance policy and its determinants”, with more than 50 participants.
• August 1: “Epidemiological scenario in Brazil: demographic and epidemiological transition of NCDs and health conditions”, with technical advisors from the Ministry of Health, registering more than 50 live participants and 230 views on YouTube.
• August 8: “Stained Gold: the correlation between the increase in malaria cases and illegal mining”, with a representative from the Ministry of Health and approximately 48 participants.
• November: “Protocol for responding to extreme heat in Rio de Janeiro”, with representatives from the Rio de Janeiro Health Surveillance Superintendence and PAHO/WHO, bringing together more than 70 participants.