A5022321454- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Disaster Response and Management
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Viral Infections and Vectors
Office of Readiness and Response
2022
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
2019-2021
Africa Center
2020
Kyoto University
2019
Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki
2019
Federal Medical Centre
2019
Abstract Lassa fever (LF) is endemic to Nigeria, where the disease causes substantial rates of illness and death. In this article, we report an analysis epidemiologic clinical aspects LF outbreak that occurred in Nigeria during January 1–May 6, 2018. A total 1,893 cases were reported; 423 laboratory-confirmed cases, among which 106 deaths recorded (case-fatality rate 25.1%). Among all confirmed 37 healthcare workers. The secondary attack 5,001 contacts was 0.56%. Most (80.6%) reported from 3...
Timely access to emergency funding has been identified as a bottleneck for outbreak response in Nigeria. In February 2019, new revolving investigation fund (ROIF) was established by the Nigeria Centre Disease Control (NCDC). We abstracted date of NCDC notification, verification, and 25 events that occurred prior establishing (April 2017 August 2019) 8 after (February October 2019). The median time notification (1 day) verification (0 days) did not change ROIF, but significantly decreased,...
Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOCs) provide a platform for multisectoral coordination and collaboration, to enhance the efficiency of outbreak response activities enable control disease outbreaks. Over last decade, PHEOCs have been introduced address gaps in coordination. With its tropical climate, high population density poor socioeconomic indicators, Nigeria experiences large outbreaks infectious diseases annually. These led mortality negative economic impact as result...
Event management systems (EMS) are key tools for epidemic intelligence, integrating surveillance signals and incident response, although international standards to inform development lacking. We describe the Nigeria Centre Disease Control Prevention (NCDC) SITAware, a software capable of operating with low internet bandwidth generate notifications, reports, spatiotemporal dashboards provide event-level data real-time accountability postevent learning. SITAware was enabled by local...