🎀 That's a wrap on #gdhf2024! 3000 ➕ attendees, including1200 in-person and the rest online from ALL over the world 🌏 joined in 🥉 days of in-person and virtual #hybrid programing. Sharing one last plenary recap from Social Media Ambassador Cheboi Millicent on the Palladium: Make It Possible sponsored session on Global Health Security, focusing on Kenya's experience. This is another great example of the intentional focus in the conference on African experience and expertise. 💫 #digitalhealth #digitalprinciples #data4health #healthsecurity
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As the #GDHF2024 event comes to an end, during the afternoon session, I captured what was discussed on a plenary session titled: Enhancing Global Health Security: Kenya’s Experience Accelerating Digitally-Enabled Passive Surveillance and Response for Pandemic Preparedness. The session featured the following speakers Pascal M.,Peninah Munyua ,Xenophon Santas ,Jacob Odhiambo ,Emmanuel Okunga and Sonora Stampfly who shared insights on innovative approaches to strengthening health security through digital surveillance. Key takeaways: Kenya's Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) framework focuses on priority diseases identified through risk assessments, with reporting mechanisms that vary based on the disease's impact—ranging from immediate to weekly or monthly updates. Data collection occurs at multiple levels, including community, facility, sub-county/county, and national levels. The IDSR strategy is built on four pillars: epidemic preparedness and response, data management, strengthening laboratory capacity, and coordination initiatives. The previous surveillance systems have faced significant limitations such as siloed operations leading to data duplication, frequent system downtimes that hinder access to critical information, inconsistent data standards across various systems, and technological challenges in supporting outbreaks. Additionally there are also issues related to data ownership and unclear privacy policies have further complicated the effectiveness of these systems. Summary: To address these challenges, there is a pressing need for Kenya to actualize electronic public health surveillance. This would promote multi-channel e-surveillance, enhance data source integration, improve coordination among stakeholders, and facilitate better prediction and analytics for future health threats. #GlobalDigitalHealthForum #TechChange #DigitalHealth #MOHK #GDHF2024
