The GIHSN held its 12th Annual Meeting on November 24-26th, at Domaine de Châteauneuf, South of France. It has been a great opportunity to meet and discuss the challenges of respiratory virus surveillance with GIHSN sites, epidemiologists, virologists, clinicians and international public health experts, including representatives from the World Health Organization, the UK Health Security Agency, the French ANRS-MIE and the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention.