A5078300484- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Disaster Response and Management
- Global Security and Public Health
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
2021-2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant morbidity and mortality since its emergence in December 2019. In Nigeria, the government inaugurated Presidential Task Force on to coordinate resources while Nigeria Centre for Disease Control led public health response. Ministry of Defence Health Implementation Programme (MODHIP), partnership with US Army Medical Research Directorate – Africa/Nigeria, responded immediately by establishing a emergency operations center military response support...
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...