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The COVID-19 pandemic caused most public administrations across the globe to allocate more resources to epidemiological surveillance systems and found themselves under-financed or under-structured for responding effectively to the challenge. There has become a clear need to strengthen public health structures to face new infections or pandemics that may emerge in the future. The conditions under which the COVID-19 pandemic was managed have provided the opportunity to implement new intersectoral and interdepartmental methods of urban health coordination; as the crisis generated by COVID-19 gives way to standard management, the epidemiological surveillance systems developed throughout the pandemic must be consolidated and analyzed. This workshop will analyze innovative experiences developed in the city of Barcelona and other territories in the epidemiological surveillance of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants will discuss these experiences with the agents involved, in order to increase the transfer of learning to other areas of surveillance in Public Health.