TY - JOUR
T1 - Adapting Longstanding Public Health Collaborations between Government of Kenya and CDC Kenya in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2021
AU - Herman-Roloff, Amy
AU - Aman, Rashid
AU - Samandari, Taraz
AU - Kasera, Kadondi
AU - Emukule, Gideon
AU - Amoth, Patrick
AU - Chen, Tai Ho
AU - Kisivuli, Jackton
AU - Weyenga, Herman
AU - Hunsperger, Elizabeth
AU - Onyango, Clayton
AU - Juma, Bonventure
AU - Munyua, Peninah
AU - Wako, Daniel
AU - Akelo, Victor
AU - Kimanga, Davies
AU - Ndegwa, Linus
AU - Mohamed, Ahmed Abade
AU - Okello, Peter
AU - Kariuki, Samuel
AU - De Cock, Kevin M.
AU - Bulterys, Marc
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Kenya (CDC Kenya) have maintained a 40-year partnership during which measures were implemented to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the MOH and CDC Kenya rapidly responded to mitigate disease impact on Kenya's 52 million residents. We describe activities undertaken jointly by the MOH and CDC Kenya that lessened the effects of COVID-19 during 5 epidemic waves from March through December 2021. Activities included establishing national and county-level emergency operations centers and implementing workforce development and deployment, infection prevention and control training, laboratory diagnostic advancement, enhanced surveillance, and information management. The COVID-19 pandemic provided fresh impetus for the government of Kenya to establish a national public health institute, launched in January 2022, to consolidate its public health activities and counter COVID-19 and future infectious, vaccine-preventable, and emerging zoonotic diseases.
AB - Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Kenya (CDC Kenya) have maintained a 40-year partnership during which measures were implemented to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the MOH and CDC Kenya rapidly responded to mitigate disease impact on Kenya's 52 million residents. We describe activities undertaken jointly by the MOH and CDC Kenya that lessened the effects of COVID-19 during 5 epidemic waves from March through December 2021. Activities included establishing national and county-level emergency operations centers and implementing workforce development and deployment, infection prevention and control training, laboratory diagnostic advancement, enhanced surveillance, and information management. The COVID-19 pandemic provided fresh impetus for the government of Kenya to establish a national public health institute, launched in January 2022, to consolidate its public health activities and counter COVID-19 and future infectious, vaccine-preventable, and emerging zoonotic diseases.
U2 - 10.3201/eid2813.211550
DO - 10.3201/eid2813.211550
M3 - Article
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 28
SP - S159-S167
JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases
JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases
IS - 13
ER -
