Health Emergencies
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest frequency of epidemics globally. AHADI will respond to countries’ analytics needs in order to strengthen health emergency preparedness and responses at national and subnational levels.
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AHADI is working with WHO to generate a database to inform epidemic risks, preparedness and response in the WHO African region.
High quality and high-resolution spatial-temporal data on disease and its determinants are essential to permit the understanding of the burden of epidemics, their co-occurrence and develop appropriate preparedness and response plans.
In Africa, the diversity of disease-causing pathogens, host susceptibility, and environmental, climatic, social and other contextual factors necessary for transmission have contributed to outbreaks and epidemics.
In 2015-2018, some members of AHADI worked with the WHO Regional Office for Africa to develop a comprehensive spatially and temporally defined database of outbreaks and epidemics of diseases with potential for international spread in accordance with the International Health Regulations of 2005. AHADI is working with WHO to update this database, covering the period since 1975 and defined by country, district, month, year, disease, reservoir, and diagnosis method for further analysis to inform epidemic risks, preparedness and response in the WHO African region.
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We are working to strengthen the practice of evidence-informed health priority-setting in Africa. If you would like to work with us, please get in touch.
