Strengthening COVID-19 pandemic response coordination through public health emergency operations centres (PHEOC) in Africa: Review of a multi-faceted knowledge management and sharing approach, 2020-2021.

Autor:	Eteng WO; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Lilay A; World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo., Tekeste S; World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo., Mankoula W; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Collard E; Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom., Waya C; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Rosenfeld E; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America., Wilton CM; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America., Muita M; Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom., McGinley L; Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom., Kawe Y; World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo., Abdullah A; World Health Organisation Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt., Halm A; Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department, Robert Koch Institute, Crisis Management Unit, Berlin, Germany., Li J; World Health Organisation, Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland., Lokossou VL; ECOWAS Regional Center for Surveillance and Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria., Kanoute Y; World Health Organisation, Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland., Sonko I; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Aragaw M; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia., Ouma AO; Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	PLOS global public health [PLOS Glob Public Health] 2023 Jun 22; Vol. 3 (6), pp. e0001386. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 22 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pgph.0001386
Abstrakt:	The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted health security program implementation and incremental gains achieved after the West African Ebola outbreak in 2016 across Africa. Following cancellation of in-person events, a multi-faceted intervention program was established in May 2020 by Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the World Health Organisation, and partners to strengthen national COVID-19 response coordination through public health emergency operations centres (PHEOC) utilizing continuous learning, mentorship, and networking. We present the lessons learned and reflection points. A multi-partner program coordination group was established to facilitate interventions' delivery including webinars and virtual community of practice (COP). We retrieved data from Africa CDC's program repository, synthesised major findings and describe these per thematic area. The virtual COP recorded 1,968 members and approximately 300 engagements in its initial three months. Fifty-six webinar sessions were held, providing 97 cumulative learning hours to 12,715 unique participants. Zoom data showed a return rate of 85%; 67% of webinar attendees were from Africa, and about 26 interactions occurred between participants and facilitators per session. Of 4,084 (44%) participants responding to post-session surveys, over 95% rated the topics as being relevant to their work and contributing to improving their understanding of PHEOC operationalisation. In addition, 95% agreed that the simplicity of the training delivery encouraged a greater number of public health staff to participate and spread lessons from it to their own networks. This just-in-time, progressively adaptive multi-faceted learning and knowledge management approach in Africa, with a consequential global audience at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, served its intended audience, had a high number of participants from Africa and received greatly satisfactory feedback. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (Copyright: This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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