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Using critical information to strengthen pandemic preparedness: the role of national public health agencies

COVID-19 has demonstrated that most countries’ public health systems and capacities are insufficiently prepared to prevent a localised infectious disease outbreak from spreading. Strengthening national preparedness requires National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs), or their equivalent, to overcome...

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Autores principales: Khan, Mishal S, Dar, Osman, Erondu, Ngozi A, Rahman-Shepherd, Afifah, Hollmann, Lara, Ihekweazu, Chikwe, Ukandu, Okechukwu, Agogo, Emmanuel, Ikram, Aamer, Rathore, Tayyab Razi, Okereke, Ebere, Squires, Neil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7526302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002830
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author Khan, Mishal S
Dar, Osman
Erondu, Ngozi A
Rahman-Shepherd, Afifah
Hollmann, Lara
Ihekweazu, Chikwe
Ukandu, Okechukwu
Agogo, Emmanuel
Ikram, Aamer
Rathore, Tayyab Razi
Okereke, Ebere
Squires, Neil
author_facet Khan, Mishal S
Dar, Osman
Erondu, Ngozi A
Rahman-Shepherd, Afifah
Hollmann, Lara
Ihekweazu, Chikwe
Ukandu, Okechukwu
Agogo, Emmanuel
Ikram, Aamer
Rathore, Tayyab Razi
Okereke, Ebere
Squires, Neil
author_sort Khan, Mishal S
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description COVID-19 has demonstrated that most countries’ public health systems and capacities are insufficiently prepared to prevent a localised infectious disease outbreak from spreading. Strengthening national preparedness requires National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs), or their equivalent, to overcome practical challenges affecting timely access to, and use of, data that is critical to preparedness. Our situational analysis in collaboration with NPHIs in three countries—Ethiopia, Nigeria and Pakistan—characterises these challenges. Our findings indicate that NPHIs’ role necessitates collection and analysis of data from multiple sources that do not routinely share data with public health authorities. Since initiating requests for access to new data sources can be a lengthy process, it is essential that NPHIs are routinely monitoring a broad set of priority indicators that are selected to reflect the country-specific context. NPHIs must also have the authority to be able to request rapid sharing of data from public and private sector organisations during health emergencies and to access additional human and financial resources during disease outbreaks. Finally, timely, transparent and informative communication of synthesised data from NPHIs will facilitate sustained data sharing with NPHIs from external organisations. These actions identified by our analysis will support the availability of robust information systems that allow relevant data to be collected, shared and analysed by NPHIs sufficiently rapidly to inform a timely local response to infectious disease outbreaks in the future.
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spelling pubmed-75263022020-10-19 Using critical information to strengthen pandemic preparedness: the role of national public health agencies Khan, Mishal S Dar, Osman Erondu, Ngozi A Rahman-Shepherd, Afifah Hollmann, Lara Ihekweazu, Chikwe Ukandu, Okechukwu Agogo, Emmanuel Ikram, Aamer Rathore, Tayyab Razi Okereke, Ebere Squires, Neil BMJ Glob Health Analysis COVID-19 has demonstrated that most countries’ public health systems and capacities are insufficiently prepared to prevent a localised infectious disease outbreak from spreading. Strengthening national preparedness requires National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs), or their equivalent, to overcome practical challenges affecting timely access to, and use of, data that is critical to preparedness. Our situational analysis in collaboration with NPHIs in three countries—Ethiopia, Nigeria and Pakistan—characterises these challenges. Our findings indicate that NPHIs’ role necessitates collection and analysis of data from multiple sources that do not routinely share data with public health authorities. Since initiating requests for access to new data sources can be a lengthy process, it is essential that NPHIs are routinely monitoring a broad set of priority indicators that are selected to reflect the country-specific context. NPHIs must also have the authority to be able to request rapid sharing of data from public and private sector organisations during health emergencies and to access additional human and financial resources during disease outbreaks. Finally, timely, transparent and informative communication of synthesised data from NPHIs will facilitate sustained data sharing with NPHIs from external organisations. These actions identified by our analysis will support the availability of robust information systems that allow relevant data to be collected, shared and analysed by NPHIs sufficiently rapidly to inform a timely local response to infectious disease outbreaks in the future. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7526302/ /pubmed/32994228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002830 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Agogo, Emmanuel
Ikram, Aamer
Rathore, Tayyab Razi
Okereke, Ebere
Squires, Neil
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7526302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002830
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