Overview
Following the completion of the WHO-led Joint External Evaluation (JEE) in Nigeria in 2017, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) engaged in strategic activities and interventions over 5 years to improve its scoring across all accessed indicators. A framework that will provide proper linkage and coordination between technical and programmatic activities to outcomes internally and externally for the NCDC was then proposed in 2018 by the United State Center for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC).
Georgetown University (GU) in conjunction with Savannah Health System Innovation Ltd (SHSIL), and with technical support from the US CDC and user interaction/feedback from Nigeria’s National Public Health Institute (NPHI) – NCDC, developed and deployed an enterprise-wide program management platform named APHIDS MS. They designed it to help NPHIs to achieve their mandate to lead the preparedness, detection, and response to infectious disease outbreaks and public health emergencies by effectively and efficiently managing resources, risk, and interdependencies promptly.