Briefing paper for field epidemiologists: Community indicator-based surveillance

To discuss the practical aspects of the design, implementation, and evaluation of community indicator-based surveillance (CIBS) in humanitarian settings; to provide a theoretical framework on public surveillance (definitions, types, and attributes) from the perspective of the CIBS in a humanitarian setting. Our aim is help field teams to decide what the most appropriate system might be and to improve the design of CIBS systems within MSF operations.