The SORMAS Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Brunswick, Germany.

The purpose of the foundation is the sustainable international promotion of public health, especially the prevention and control of transmissible diseases, development cooperation as well as science and research for the benefit of the general public. It achieves this purpose by developing, promoting and implementing digital systems to support public national and international organizations in the early detection and containment of epidemics in local and international contexts. The foundation uses SORMAS as a guidance system, but does not limit its activities to it.

The Surveillance Outbreak Response Management & Analysis System (SORMAS) is an open source software for early detection of infections and management of epidemic control. SORMAS is now in use in numerous countries on several continents and has been an essential part in managing large epidemics of Lassa fever, monkey pox, meningitis, measles and the COVID-19 pandemic.

In many countries, laboratories, hospitals, medical offices, airport physicians, ministries and public health departments work together via SORMAS. For more than 40 diseases, SORMAS enables digital data exchange in real time, even horizontally across national or regional borders. SORMAS is one of the world’s leading systems in this field and has been recognized as a “Digital Global Good”.