Brazzaville – The World Well being Group (WHO) Regional Workplace for Africa and the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis (BMGF) have dedicated to strengthening collaboration in the direction of using knowledge analytics within the combat towards illnesses within the African area.

The dedication was made throughout a technical go to to the WHO Africa workplace in Brazzaville, Congo by a delegation from BMGF led by Jennifer Gardy, Deputy Director, Surveillance, Knowledge, and Epidemiology from 8 to 10 January 2024.

The go to supplied a platform for the delegation to know how the WHO Regional Workplace for Africa’s Precision Public Well being Metrics (PPHM) programme is strengthening well being and illness modelling in Africa.

The PPHM unit was arrange as a cross-cutting staff inside the Common Well being Protection Communicable and Noncommunicable Ailments (UCN) Cluster in WHO Africa to help all programme areas with knowledge analytics to manage, eradicate and get rid of illnesses within the African area.

“Via precision public well being, we’re poised to deploy analytics to drive proof and investments for public well being interventions. We welcome the chance to construct synergies with BMFG and different companions on this effort to leverage knowledge within the combat towards illnesses,” says Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa.

Discussions through the engagement centered on the alignment between the imaginative and prescient and techniques of the UCN cluster and the BMGF, and the way this may inform the work of the PPHM programme as it really works to help and improve using knowledge analytics at each regional and nation stage.  

Moreover, the WHO Africa Regional Workplace and BMFG categorical dedication to proceed to work carefully, by the UCN Cluster and PPHM, to help the various areas recognized for collaboration, with an preliminary concentrate on the eradication of malaria within the area.

“We acknowledge the necessity to leverage knowledge for public well being decision-making. We’re trying ahead to constructing synergies with the WHO Africa Regional Workplace to help international locations within the area of their efforts to make use of data-informed options to combat illness,” says Jennifer Gardy.

PPH was established as a particular strategic initiative to deepen the precision public well being for Africa (PPH4Africa) strategic initiative, advancing the deployment of analytics in the direction of well being programs strengthening and response. This imaginative and prescient is aligned with ongoing efforts to strengthen capability on epidemiological modelling for public well being decision-making in sub-Saharan Africa, already supported by BMFG.