Development and Implementation of a Public Health Event Management System, Nigeria, 2018–2024

James Elston; Womi Eteng Oboma Eteng; Chikwe Ihekweazu; Isabel Oliver; Everistus Aniaku; Anwar Abubakar; Christopher T. Lee; Emmanuel Benyeogor; Iain Roddick; Sophie Logan; Ebere Okereke; Leena Inamdar; Olusola Aruna; Rejoice Luka-Lawal; Christine Manthey; Lawrence Hinkle; Gloria Nunez; Emmanuel Agogo; Rabi Usman; Emmanuel Lucky Sunday; Muntari Hassan; John Oladejo; Ifedayo Adetifa

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Development and Implementation of a Public Health Event Management System, Nigeria, 2018–2024

James Elston^*, Womi Eteng Oboma Eteng, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Isabel Oliver, Everistus Aniaku, Anwar Abubakar, Christopher T. Lee, Emmanuel Benyeogor, Iain Roddick, Sophie Logan, Ebere Okereke, Leena Inamdar, Olusola Aruna, Rejoice Luka-Lawal, Christine Manthey, Lawrence Hinkle, Gloria Nunez, Emmanuel Agogo, Rabi Usman, Emmanuel Lucky SundayMuntari Hassan, John Oladejo, Ifedayo Adetifa

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Event management systems (EMS) are key tools for epidashboards and provide event-level data for real-time acdemic intelligence, integrating surveillance signals and in-countability and postevent learning. SITAware was enabled cident response, although international standards to inform by local institutional ownership, co-created at low cost, and development are lacking. We describe the Nigeria Centre integrated into existing workflows. In 2022, SITAware was for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) SITAware, a used to manage ≈300 incidents, and NCDC implemented it software capable of operating with low internet bandwidth subnationally. NCDC’s experience may inform EMS develto generate notifications, reports, and spatiotemporal opment and implementation in similar settings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e4-e13
Journal	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume	31
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3101.240379
Publication status	Published - Jan 2025

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Elston, J., Eteng, W. E. O., Ihekweazu, C., Oliver, I., Aniaku, E., Abubakar, A., Lee, C. T., Benyeogor, E., Roddick, I., Logan, S., Okereke, E., Inamdar, L., Aruna, O., Luka-Lawal, R., Manthey, C., Hinkle, L., Nunez, G., Agogo, E., Usman, R., ... Adetifa, I. (2025). Development and Implementation of a Public Health Event Management System, Nigeria, 2018–2024. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 31(1), e4-e13. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3101.240379

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