Daniel Tom-Aba

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC · Global Immunization Division

Introduction The PANDORA-ID-NET consortium aims to build capacity for effective outbreak response in sub-Saharan Africa. Part of this mission is to develop a real-time data sharing platform for disease outbreaks that leverages centralised data management and uses mobile technologies for data gathering and feedback. We have committed to using open-s...

In November 2017, the mobile digital Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System was deployed in 30 districts in Nigeria in response to an outbreak of monkeypox. Adaptation and activation of the system took 14 days, and its use improved timeliness, completeness, and overall capacity of the response.

BACKGROUND Funding enterprises, non-governmental organizations, and private-owned health companies repeatedly build vertical, disease-focused tools that are faced with information exchange difficulties because they are not interoperable with each another and run simultaneous duplicate systems within these countries costing a fortune while deliverin...

Background: Digital health is a dynamic field that has been generating a large number of tools; many of these tools do not have the level of maturity required to function in a sustainable model. It is in this context that the concept of global goods maturity is gaining importance. Digital Square developed a global good maturity model (GGMM) for di...

BACKGROUND Electronic health (eHealth) systems increase the efficiency of disease surveillance by reducing delays in the availability of data, usability, improve processing of data and detect outbreaks. Mobile health (mHealth) technology plays a strong role in containing any disease outbreak and eHealth interventions are being used in many of the c...

Background: In September, 2017, human monkeypox re-emerged in Nigeria, 39 years after the last reported case. We aimed to describe the clinical and epidemiological features of the 2017-18 human monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria. Methods: We reviewed the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of cases of human monkeypox that occurred between Se...

Background: The use of mobile phone information technology (IT) in the health sector has received much attention especially during the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak. mHealth can be attributed to a major improvement in EVD control, but there lacks an overview of what kinds of tools were available and used based on the functionalities...

Background : The Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) is a mobile digital tool for surveillance and outbreak management covering 11 epidemic prone diseases (www.sormas.org) and currently being used in 15 federal states of Nigeria. We investigated usefulness and acceptability of SORMAS among users in health facilit...

Background: Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, more than 11,000 people died. For outbreaks of infectious diseases like this, the rapid implementation of control measures is a crucial factor for containment. In West African countries, outbreak surveillance is a paper-based process with significant delays in forwarding...

During the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014-15, health agencies had severe challenges with case notification and contact tracing. To overcome these, we developed the Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS). The objective of this study was to measure perceived quality of SORMAS and its change over tim...

BACKGROUND The use of mobile phone information technology (IT) in the health sector has received much attention especially during the 2014-2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak. mHealth can be attributed to a major improvement in EVD control, but there lacks an overview of what kinds of tools were available and used based on the functionalities t...

Within the last several years the world has experienced outbreaks of infectious diseases across geographies in magnitudes of size and speed rarely seen before. People and governments worldwide have been impacted by these diseases, sometimes severely, and current processes used to track and trace infections were being seen as an impediment. As the E...

Abstract The recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa has ravaged many lives. Effective containment of this outbreak relies on prompt and effective coordination and communication across various interventions; early detection and response being critical to successful control. The use of information and communications technology (...

Background: The first ever outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Nigeria was declared in July, 2014. Level of public knowledge, perception and adequacy of information on EVD were unknown. We assessed the public preparedness level to adopt disease preventive behavior which is premised on appropriate knowledge, perception and adequate information...

In the context of controlling the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD), the World Health Organization claimed that 'critical determinant of epidemic size appears to be the speed of implementation of rigorous control measures', i.e. immediate follow-up of contact persons during 21 days after exposure, isolation and treatment of cases, decon...