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Epidemic prevention

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.

Recommendations: Strengthening country architecture for epidemic preparedness

Resolve to Save Lives

Five recommendations for strengthening health security at the country level—developed and refined hand-in-hand with governments and partners.

RTSL donates IPC supplies toward an “Epidemic-ready” Ethiopia

A research agenda for urban health security

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

We outline ten key themes for strengthening health security in urban environments, allowing cities to better prevent, detect, respond to and recover from health threats.

Highlighting epidemic prevention at the 2025 Africa Health Agenda International Conference

With significant progress in Recife, Brazil expands 7-1-7

Three action items for a coordinated response to the threat of H5N1 in the U.S. and beyond

Advocacy for action: domestic financing for IPC in Ethiopia

Development of a Subnational Health Security Capacities Assessment Tool: Lessons From Nigeria and Implications for the Implementation of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Strategy

Health Security

How can health security capacities be measured at the subnational level? This tool includes 14 technical areas and 35 indicators to assess capacities in federated systems.

Ethiopia adopts proclamation to improve delivery of health services

Advancing gender equity in Africa’s digital health transformation

How “Epidemic-Ready” health facilities in Sierra Leone stopped measles in its tracks

“Epidemic-Ready” healthcare workers in Uganda sound the alarm to end outbreaks faster

Widespread adoption of 7-1-7 in Uganda leads to rapid improvement and increased community protection

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

Using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy

IJTLD

Can 7-1-7 help household contacts of tuberculosis patients get started on preventive therapy? In India, sites using the timeliness metric saw an increase in household contacts starting treatment.