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Epidemic intelligence

A new alert system is allowing Zambia to find outbreaks faster

Strengthening Nigeria’s capacity for subnational health security assessments

Collaborative surveillance training

Coding, capstones, and collaboration: colleagues learn critical skills at RTSL and Applied Epi’s training

To stop state-level outbreaks, Nigeria is integrating 7-1-7 in its national emergency management system

How event-based surveillance is saving lives across Africa

flowchart graphic on Climate-informed strategies for epidemic readiness _from signals to systems, Resolve to Save Lives

From signals to systems: Strengthening epidemic readiness through climate-informed strategies

Resolve to Save Lives
Strengthening epidemic readiness by integrating climate data into health systems.

Development and Implementation of a Public Health Event Management System, Nigeria, 2018–2024

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We explore how the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC)’s event management system, SITAware, supported the agency with the management of 300 incidents in 2022.
Distribution of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) supplies at a holy water pilgrimage site in Amhara, Ethiopia. Image credit: Hanna Mekonnen, Ethiopian Public Health Institute.

Enhanced situational awareness: taking action to stop outbreaks before they begin in Ethiopia

Testing for Covid-19 in Nigeria © Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

“Surveillance is a public health superpower”

Participants at a training for traditional healers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in April 2024.

How event-based surveillance is saving lives in Sierra Leone

Participants at a training for traditional healers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, in April 2024.

How “event-based surveillance” is saving lives Sierra Leone

New report offers lessons on stopping disease outbreaks, amid global spread of H5N1

Enhanced situational awareness allows

In light of climate change, we need proactive approaches to minimize outbreaks

Building an outbreak surveillance system in Zambia

Sprinting towards health security: how Zambia built an outbreak surveillance system in just one week

Improving the sightline on cardiovascular disease in Ethiopia

Health security bulletin helps coordinate epidemic preparedness in Ethiopia

An interactive guide to help people navigate COVID-19 risk

Interactive online guide in the New York Times helps people understand and navigate COVID-19 risk across the U.S.

Real-time data to inform decision-making about maintaining health services in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic

Defining collaborative surveillance to improve decision making for public health emergencies and beyond

Defining collaborative surveillance to improve decision making for public health emergencies and beyond

The Lancet
What is collaborative surveillance, and why does it matter? We explain how timely intelligence is essential for decision-making to confront increasingly frequent public health emergencies.

Mauritania: getting eyes on the virus