ReviewBMJ global health2020
Using critical information to strengthen pandemic preparedness: the role of national public health agencies.
Review in BMJ global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- National public health institutes in Africa: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Hospital disaster preparedness in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of English literature.BMC emergency medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Strengthening national public health institutes: a systematic review on institution building in the public sector.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of Sensory Re-education Paradigm on Quality of Life, Tactile Sensation, and Proprioceptive Acuity in Patients with Post-COVID-19 Polyneuropathy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2026Trial
- Building systems for preparedness: Global scoping studies on institutional governance and National Public Health Agencies.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Synthesizing Public Health Preparedness Mechanisms for High-Impact Infectious Disease Threats: A Jurisdictional Scan.Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2025Review
- Social media crisis communication and public engagement during COVID-19 analyzing public health and news media organizations' tweeting strategies.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Strengthening National Public Health Institutes for resilient health systems: evidence to inform policy and decision makers in the Eastern Mediterranean region.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Essential public health functions: the key to resilient health systems.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Essential public health functions are not enough: fostering linkages between functions through National Public Health Institutes improves public health impact.BMJ global health · 2023Review
- "fhircrackr": An R Package Unlocking Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources for Statistical Analysis.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- The role of international support programmes in global health security capacity building: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Synergistic fight against future pandemics: Lessons from previous pandemics.Le infezioni in medicina · 2023Review
- Leaping Forwards, Bouncing Forwards, or Just Bouncing Back: Resilience in Environmental Public Agencies Through after the Austerity Decade.Environmental management · 2022Article
- Strengthening preparedness against global health threats: A paradigm shift based on One Health approaches.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- The Architecture of a Feasibility Query Portal for Distributed COVID-19 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Patient Data Repositories: Design and Implementation Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Article
- Towards applying the essential public health functions for building health systems resilience: A renewed list and key enablers for operationalization.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Identifying the preparedness components in COVID-19: Systematic literature review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2022Review
- Building the evidence base for global health policy: the need to strengthen institutional networks, geographical representation and global collaboration.BMJ global health · 2021Review
- Why you should share your data during a pandemic.BMJ global health · 2021Article
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12 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
COVID-19 has demonstrated that most countries' public health systems and capacities are insufficiently prepared to prevent a localised infectious disease outbreak from spreading. Strengthening national preparedness requires National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs), or their equivalent, to overcome practical challenges affecting timely access to, and use of, data that is critical to preparedness. Our situational analysis in collaboration with NPHIs in three countries-Ethiopia, Nigeria and Pakistan-characterises these challenges. Our findings indicate that NPHIs' role necessitates collection and analysis of data from multiple sources that do not routinely share data with public health authorities. Since initiating requests for access to new data sources can be a lengthy process, it is essential that NPHIs are routinely monitoring a broad set of priority indicators that are selected to reflect the country-specific context. NPHIs must also have the authority to be able to request rapid sharing of data from public and private sector organisations during health emergencies and to access additional human and financial resources during disease outbreaks. Finally, timely, transparent and informative communication of synthesised data from NPHIs will facilitate sustained data sharing with NPHIs from external organisations. These actions identified by our analysis will support the availability of robust information systems that allow relevant data to be collected, shared and analysed by NPHIs sufficiently rapidly to inform a timely local response to infectious disease outbreaks in the future.
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