Brief Outline Of The Overall Workshop:
This workshop proposition aims to address interventions to fight against Covid-19 focusing on Primary Health Care (PHC) services and surveillance strategies in countries with different responses as a possibility to systematize learning for future pandemics. Non-governmental responses will also be discussed. Portugals response to Covid-19 is considered successful by the adoption of different surveillance strategies, and multiple actions in its health system. In the United States and Brazil, countries with different health systems, high numbers of cases and deaths were observed due to Covid-19. In coping with these scenarios, we highlight the importance of strengthening health systems, expanding testing, and surveillance actions, integrating the healthcare network, and wide vaccination coverage.

Specific Objectives And Component Parts:
The specific objectives of this workshop are: (1)To present interventions to fight against Covid-19 focusing on primary care services and surveillance strategies in countries with different responses as a possibility to systematize learning for future pandemics, and (2) To discuss the role of Primary Health Care in the COVID-19 pandemic. This workshop will address pandemic response interventions, especially actions in primary care, expansion of testing, and surveillance strategies. The main pillars on which the Portuguese response and the lessons learned were structured will be presented. Intervention in France will be also discussed. The role of primary care in the response to Covid-19 will be presented as a contribution to thinking about future scenarios in different countries. A research intervention that aimed to expand testing, isolation, quarantine, and telemonitoring (TQT-Covid-19) in primary care units in two Brazilian capitals will also be systematized. From these experiences, we seek to bring contributions to understanding the different answers and thinking about coping with future problems. The Key Questions That The Workshop Will Address * What are the main components of interventions and/or responses to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic? * What is the role of Primary Health Care in the COVID-19 pandemic? * What are the main lessons for future pandemics?