O-02 Regional Coordination and Collaboration for Enhanced Intelligence Surveillance at the International Cricket Council T20 Cricket World Cup 2024 held in the Caribbean

Methods: The Caribbean Public Health Agency collaborated with global and regional stakeholders to receive epidemic, environmental and safety intelligence information to monitor and prepare for new and emerging threats, focusing on the CWC host and participating countries. This involved daily collation and reporting of scanning data for global and regional epidemic intelligence, disasters/environmental hazards, regional intelligence and security scanning with the risk analysis of any threats.

Results: During the reporting period, epidemic intelligence scanning revealed 104 incidents (new or updated) for 27 diseases/pathogens from official (n=67, 64%) or media (n=37, 36%) sources in 15 (of 19) countries participating in the CWC, excluding the West Indies team. Health and safety advice was provided by local ministries on 12 reported diseases/pathogens/events. Ten environmental weather events with a total of 61 reports (new and updated) were identified. A total of 370,208 passengers travelled to the Caribbean host countries with 241,139 (65%) passengers arriving from 17 countries that participated in the CWC. Four securityrelated events were identified. Summarised intelligence data received from collaborating partners, with relevant risk analysis, resulted in 34 collated documents shared with the relevant stakeholders. 

Conclusion: International and regional, multi-sectoral collaboration and coordination were critical for the success of 22 enhanced intelligence surveillance across the region. With 20 participating country teams and the high influx of tourists to the Caribbean, bolstered surveillance was of paramount importance to protect the local and transient populations. Effective multi-agency, multi-sectoral partnerships foster trust, bi-directional information flow and better coordination; this was illustrated via the daily incident reports with the relevant risk assessments that reassured stakeholders during the tournament.