Finding the fragments:community-based epidemic surveillance in Sudan  

作　　者：Mona Ibrahim Nada Abdelmagid Rahaf AbuKoura Alhadi Khogali Tasnime Osama Aljaile Ahmed Israa Zain Alabdeen Salma A.E.Ahmed Maysoon Dahab 

机构地区：[1]Department of Social Policy and Intervention,University of Oxford,Oxford,UK [2]Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology,London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,London,UK [3]Julius Global Health,University Medical Centre Utrecht,Utrecht,The Netherlands [4]National Ribat University,Khartoum,Sudan [5]Department of Primary Care&Public Health,Imperial College London,London,UK [6]Sudan COVID-19 Research Group,Khartoum,Sudan [7]University of Khartoum,Khartoum,Sudan [8]Freelance Public Health Researcher,Sydney,Australia [9]Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology,London School of Hygiene&Tropical Medicine,London,UK

出　　处：《Global Health Research and Policy》2023年第1期339-342,共4页全球健康研究与政策（英文）

基　　金：UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund(UKRI GCRF)and the Oak Foundation—funding Oxford-based academics;the Centre for Disease Control(CDC),and UK Aid—funding LSHTM-based academics.

摘　　要：Sudan faces inter-sectional health risks posed by escalating violent conflict,natural hazards and epidemics.Epidemics are frequent and overlapping,particularly resurgent seasonal outbreaks of diseases such as malaria,cholera.To improve response,the Sudanese Ministry of Health manages multiple disease surveillance systems,however,these systems are fragmented,under resourced,and disconnected from epidemic response efforts.Inversely,civic and informal community-led systems have often organically led outbreak responses,despite having limited access to data and resources from formal outbreak detection and response systems.Leveraging a communal sense of moral obligation,such informal epidemic responses can play an important role in reaching affected populations.While effective,localised,and organised—they cannot currently access national surveillance data,or formal outbreak prevention and response technical and financial resources.This paper calls for urgent and coordinated recognition and support of community-led outbreak responses,to strengthen,diversify,and scale up epidemic surveillance for both national epidemic preparedness and regional health security.

关 键 词：Global health security Epidemic surveillance Health policy Low-income country Community-led surveillance 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]