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Africa: Ebola Scare - Lagos Ramps Up Surveillance As 177 Die in Central Africa Outbreak: [Vanguard] The Lagos State Government has intensified surveillance and border health screening following the worsening Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Central and East Africa, where at least 177 deaths have been recorded from about 700 suspected cases. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSj8Yc #Ebola #AfricaOutbreak #HealthSurveillance #PublicHealth #EbolaVirus

Headlines Africa Apr 22

Africa: World Malaria Day - Why Stronger Surveillance Is the Key to the Future of Malaria Control: [Malaria Consortium] A snapshot in time: The state of malaria http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TS97x6 #WorldMalariaDay #MalariaControl #PublicHealth #MalariaAwareness #HealthSurveillance

Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig Sep 8, 2025

Floods, Diseases, and Policy Gaps – Why Pakistan Must Rethink Health Security

#HealthSecurity #NationalHealhtSecurityPolicy #ClimateResillience #HealthSurveillance #PublicHealth #Pakistan

https://commandeleven.com/artificial-intelligence-ai/floods-diseases-and-policy-gaps-why-pakistan-must-rethink-health-security/

Floods, Diseases, and Policy Gaps – Why Pakistan Must Rethink Health Security

<p>Pakistan today stands at the intersection of policy ambition and climate-driven urgency. For years, health experts have argued that the country lacks a <a href=

Headlines Africa Mar 6, 2025

Africa: Renewed Commitment to Strengthen Public Health Surveillance and Address Disease Outbreaks in Africa: [Africa CDC] Addis Ababa -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in sequencing technology, strengthen their collaboration to advance the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI). http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJMH65 #AfricaCDC #PublicHealth #DiseaseControl #Genomics #HealthSurveillance

Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪Nov 30, 2023

This week there was a presentation on the initial work towards improving #HealthSurveillance and #data #interoperability in the triple border between #Brazil, #Colombia, and #Peru. Our colleagues at #UW has published a piece on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7135423130256248833/

#health #SouthAmerica

International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) on LinkedIn: Triple Border Disease Surveillance in South America

Another successful meeting for the INSIGHT Triple Border Program! I-TECH’s Fernanda Freistadt, MPH, along with partners from FIOCRUZ - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz…

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 15, 2023

After hottest summer on record, heat-related illnesses now being tracked nationwide
[U.S.] HeatTracker dashboard allows public officials, medical professionals, public to better understand risk f. extreme heat
https://19thnews.org/2023/08/heat-related-illnesses-dashboard-biden-administration

HeatTracker: https://nemsis.org/heat-related-ems-activation-surveillance-dashboard
* tracks EMS responses to people experiencing pre-hospital heat-related emergencies
* use (companion document): https://wiki.utahdcc.org/confluence/display/NTD/Heat-Related+EMS+Activation+Surveillance+Dashboard+%28EMS+HeatTracker%29+Companion+Guide

#HeatStress #ExtremeHeat #HeatTracker #PublicHealth #USA #HealthSurveillance #epidemiology

Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪Feb 1, 2023

A very good article arguing that, from the #COVID19 experience, there is a need for better, varied and complementary methods and indicators in #healthcare to have better #PublicHealthPolicy:

"Better Metrics to Guide Public Health Policy: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 for Data Systems Improvement" https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/b2tswdg6/release/1

#data #HealthSurveillance #DiseaseSurveillance #Epidemiology