Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: In 2016, Kenya was selected to pilot DaRRE because of its existing respiratory disease surveillance and laboratory platforms and well-developed Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) (2). During 2016-2020, Kenya's DaRRE partners (CDC, the Kenya Ministry of Health [MoH], and Kenya's county public health officials) conceptualized, planned, and implemented key components of DaRRE. Activities were selected based on existing capacity and determined by the Kenya MoH and included 1) expansion of severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) surveillance sites; 2) piloting of community event-based surveillance; 3) expansion of laboratory diagnostic capacity; 4) training of public health practitioners in detection, investigation, and response to respiratory threats; and 5) improvement of response capacity by the national emergency operations center (EOC). Progress on DaRRE activity implementation was assessed throughout the process. This pilot in Kenya demonstrated that DaRRE can support IHR requirements and can capitalize on a country's existing resources by tailoring tools to improve public health preparedness based on countries' needs.
Authors: Osatohamwen I. Idubor, Miwako Kobayashi, Linus Ndegwa, Mary Okeyo, Tura Galgalo, Rosalia Kalani, Susan Githii, Elizabeth Hunsperger, Arunmozhi Balajee, Jennifer R. Verani, Maria da Gloria Carvalho, Jonas Winchell, Chris A. Van Beneden, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Lyndah Makayotto, Sandra S. Chaves
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3023257530