Extending and Strengthening Routine DHIS2 Surveillance Systems for COVID-19 Responses in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, and Uganda

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Kinkade, Carl ; Russpatrick, Scott ; Potter, Rebecca ; Saebo, Johan ; Sloan, Michelle ; Odongo, George ; Singh, Tushar ; Gallagher, Kathleen
• Description:
  The COVID-19 pandemic challenged countries to protect their populations from this emerging disease. One aspect of that challenge was to rapidly modify national surveillance systems or create new systems that would effectively detect new cases of COVID-19. Fifty-five countries leveraged past investments in District Health Information Software version 2 (DHIS2) to quickly adapt their national public health surveillance systems for COVID-19 case reporting and response activities. We provide background on DHIS2 and describe case studies from Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, and Uganda to illustrate how the DHIS2 platform, its community of practice, long-term capacity building, and local autonomy enabled countries to establish an effective COVID-19 response. With these case studies, we provide valuable insights and recommendations for strategies that can be used for national electronic disease surveillance platforms to detect new and emerging pathogens and respond to public health emergencies.
• Subjects:
  COVID-19 Humans Pandemics Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(Suppl 1):S42-S48
• Pubmed ID:
  36502427
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9745217
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Sierra Leone ; Sri Lanka ; Uganda
• Volume:
  28
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:0eba353eba078604b816e07cd0a0bd63d9917451e63a52eb9cc1ae2457ef4b63
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/123311/cdc_123311_DS1.pdf
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