Enhancing the notification system for surveillance of infectious diseases in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup 2022: project overview.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis project consists of two parts.1- The first part was conducted through an online survey; this research was categorized as exempt research. (Exempt research category means that the research is mainly no more than “minimal risk” and that you are not going to collect/record identifiable information (name, phone number, e-mail address, signature, etc.) from the research participants.Ethical approval: Ref. (ERC-822-2-2022) was obtained from the Health Research Governance Department of the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar.2- The second part of the research involved analyzing aggregated, deidentified secondary data on the number and type of communicable disease notifications received by the Ministry of Public Health.This research part does not involve any form of human subject involvement or personal data collection.As per the Health Research Governance Department of the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar regulations, this project does not require ethical clearance (for example, IRB approval and exempt research certificate). and the requirement for informed consent was exempted by the Ministry of Public Health of Qatar, which granted the research team restricted access to a certain dataset from medical records. This dataset comprised de-identified data for research purposes and was used in a fully anonymized form.All the study procedures were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Not applicable. Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library."