Risk assessment for cross-border importation of Ebola using population movement patterns: an application of the Population Connectivity Across Borders (PopCAB) method
Organization/Institution
Uganda Ministry of Health, Infectious Diseases Institute, Uganda Field Epidemiology Training Program, US CDCUganda office, US CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine - Global Border Health Team
Country of Study
Uganda, Tanzania and DRC
Location of Study
Uganda: 12 districts along border with DRC
Tanzania: 72 event locations across Kagera, Kigoma, and Rukwa Regions; Direct partnership between CDC and the Ministry of Health (there was no additional partner – we trained about 40 MOH staff, including the Director of Port Health Services who led the initiative, and those staff then conducted the field work)
DRC: 5 event locations in eastern DRC; Direct partnership between CDC and the Ministry of Health Border Health Services group (PNHF) (there was no additional partner)
Type of Study
Field Study
Methodology
Focus group discussions & key informant interviews with participatory mapping: application of the Population Connectivity Across Borders (PopCAB) method
Key Focus of Study
To characterize population movement patterns to inform understandings of potential outbreak spread & to tailor Ebola preparedness activities
Key Stakeholders
Ministry of Health, National Task Force, Infectious Diseases Institute, Field Epidemiology Training Program, Ebola vaccination campaign design team; District Task Force, district surveillance officers, health care providers, staff at points of entry; village health teams, community leaders, traditional healers, security officers, transporters
Sample size
Convenience sampled to implement as many field-based events as possible within preparedness activities
Timeframe
6 August 2018 to present
Funding Institution
US CSC
Report
Please find the report here
For more info, contact
xdf6@cdc.gov
