Disease surveillance using a One Health approach in Burkina Faso: successes and opportunities of a multisectoral collaboration
D4I
Please join Data for Impact (D4I) on January 26th at 8am EST for the first webinar in a series focusing on integration in global health monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL).
This month’s webinar, led by Rahim Kebe and Romain Tohouri from JSI, will explore the integration of human and zoonotic data in the One Health Surveillance system in Burkina Faso.
Integration is of increasing importance to global health MEL as more resources are dedicated to improving the integration and use of data from routine health and other sector information systems for evaluation. An increased number of projects tackling a range of health issues at once as well as projects spanning multiple sectors —health and education, health and environment, etc.— also means a greater need to evaluate and learn from these integrated models.
Presenters will:
Share lessons learned on the system implementation and on how the system helps prevent, detect, and report health security threats
Describe the multisectoral collaboration experience in the response against diseases with epidemic potential
Discuss specific results achieved in the human health sector, as well as in other sectors.
In 2019, a One Health information system was launched in Burkina Faso, under support from MEASURE Evaluation, to create a comprehensive and effective response to zoonotic and key human health threats at the community level. For the first time, information on human and zoonotic data was integrated and linked to the information systems of the Ministry of Health (MOH), the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries (MRAH), and Ministry of Environment Green Economy and Climate Change (MEEVCC). The One Health system developed on the District Health Information System version 2 (DHIS2) software encompasses disease surveillance, considering human, animal, and environmental health information systems (HIS), human and animal laboratory networks, and human and animal emergency response.