Report of state epidemiologists' summit on strengthening response to health emergencies
Date
2020
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Publisher
Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Abstract
Chapter 1: Introduction; Background; Study justification; Objectives; General objectives; Specific objectives; Expected outcome; Chapter 2: Presentation by chief consultant epidemiologists; Discussion; Breakout sessions; Plenary presentations by geopolitical groups; Discussions; Chapter 3: Conclusion; Recommendations; Appendices;
Description
The State Epidemiologists’ meeting is an annual meeting of State Epidemiologists with the Chief Consultant Epidemiologist and the staff of Epidemiology Division, Department of Public Health FMOH. The meeting aims at reviewing the epidemiological status of diseases in the states, analyze the annual trend of each priority disease (especially the epidemic prone diseases), identify the gaps in service delivery and feedback mechanism, with a view of discussing the next steps in reducing the mortality and morbidity rate of these priority diseases to the barest minimum.