 The event-based public health surveillance workshops were attended by representatives from across sections of public sector agencies whose inputs were considered valuable enough in the development and implementation of an event-based surveillance system for St. Lucia. An event-based public health surveillance system looks at reports, stories, rumors, and other information about health events that could be of serious risk to public health. The first two days were spent focusing on the collection of information from the various stakeholders with the aim of using the information gathered to inform a needs assessment analysis and priorities for a proper event-based system in St. Lucia. The national epidemiologist Dr. Misha Fiswa acknowledged that the island's existing event-based surveillance system needed more structure. We are able to pick up information on the ground as it pertains to different occurrences happening out of the ordinary and prompt our response. However, we would like a bit more structure so that people know when to call, what to call for, and especially who to call. And of course, there is a response to that call. So we're trying to put systems in place to ensure that our surveillance system, as it pertains to events happening in St. Lucia, is more structured and we have a response when we receive those calls or information. The workshops were jointly hosted by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, the Pan American Health Organization, and at the World Bank. Dr. Maria Almiron, Acting Unit Chief for Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment at Power Headquarters, provided an overall summary of the 3D exercise. Dr. Almiron said that one of the recommendations was to continue similar engagements and extending them to the wider community. What St. Lucia is doing is we are recognizing all the effort and it's unique in the Caribbean in terms of embracing all the stakeholders, engaging with all of them to put a more sensitive surveillance system in the country. The objective of having a more sensitive surveillance system is to detect early and to respond quickly. It's that trying to prevent a big outbreak and a big emergency. The engagement that we see here in St. Lucia is something that we want to also spread about because there is a high level of engagement of all the stakeholders that we have seen in a very, very productive way, sharing experience and also sharing ideas to move forward with this project, with this new and big project that St. Lucia Ministry of Health wants to implement. During the sessions, participants were introduced to eWars, an open source electronic early warning, a load and response system developed by WHO to help among other things with the early detection of disease outbreaks in emergency and vulnerable settings. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Otherly Affairs, Julie is Peter reporting.