A Health-Security Partnership to Strengthen Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Intelligence in Africa

This project supports a health security partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to strengthen African capacities to prevent detect and respond to biological threats. Project activities include: (1) building partnerships with country-level stakeholders and conducting landscape analyses to inform national work plans; (2) developing a regional framework for bio-surveillance of high risk pathogens; and (3) capacity-building activities to strengthen early-warning surveillance systems and epidemic intelligence.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased commitment and investment by African political and donor communities to strengthen biosecurity epidemic intelligence gathering and early warning systems on the continent; and (2) improved performance by regional and national stakeholders working to monitor rapidly detect and effectively respond to disease outbreaks whether they are natural accidental or deliberate in origin.