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Strengthening Public Health Emergency Preparedness in Ghana

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Strengthening Public Health Emergency Preparedness in Ghana

As part of efforts to control the COVID – 19 pandemic in Ghana, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) awarded Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) funding to support the response and improve the public health infrastructure in Ghana under the project title “Enhanced strategies to protect and improve health security in Ghana”. Through this support, three Regional Public Health Emergency Operation Centers (PHEOCs) have been established in the Ashanti, Northern and Western regions of the country. Currently, a fourth Regional Public Health Emergency Operation Center in the Volta region of Ghana the PHEOC was commissioned on 13th October 2022. Currently, all Four EOCs established with support from the US CDC and KOICA are functioning and are being used in various regions for their purposes in response to the ongoing COVID-19 and any outbreak of diseases. The major uses have been tracking public health events. The Public Health Events being tracked by the EOCs commissioned so far include:

  1. Tracking the ongoing COVID-19 response and other epidemic- prone diseases such as Meningitis, and monkey pox.
  2. Real-time monitoring of COVID-19 activities such as Vaccination deployment in the region
  3. Conducting media scans to track rumours going on in the regions.

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Contacts

Name Position Agency/Department/Org Note
Mr Todd Perry Special Coordinator, UNSCR 1540
Department of State
United States
Mr Stephen Knight Point of Contact
United States Mission to the United Nations
United States

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