About WARFS

Background

Mission and Aims

Work plan

WARFS (World Alliance for Risk Factor Surveillance) is an IUHPE (International Union for Health Promotion and Education) Global Working Group founded in 2008, adopting the considerable work of an informal international network of surveillance practitioners and researchers that have met since 1999 in Global Conferences held in several countries to discuss theoretical and practical aspects of risk factor surveillance. WARFS supports the development of risk factor surveillance (RFS) as a tool for evidence-based public health, acknowledging the importance of this information source to inform, monitor and evaluate disease prevention and health promotion policies, services and  interventions. 

Much effort has been dedicated to writing a “White Paper”, as a tool to open discussion on the fundamental aspects and role of surveillance, and then to offer the result of  this effort to all IUHPE members and other stakeholders.