The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), in collaboration with the World Health Group (WHO) and the Accumulate to the bottom of to Build Lives (RTSL), with funding from the European Civil Security and Humanitarian Attend Operations (ECHO), currently concluded Training of Trainers (TOT) to map Ethiopia’s Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) by digital innovation.
The first session, held from February 10–16, 2025, brought together 55 contributors, while the second session, from February 17–21, 2025, targeted on 17 IT directors and knowledge managers to enhance system customization, administration and implementation in any appreciate stages.
The training empowered contributors with good talents in utilizing the recent digital Public Health Emergency Management (ePHEM) system, a digital platform geared in direction of improving preparedness, fleet detection, and timely and coordinated response to public health emergencies.
Participants bought fingers-on training in assorted modules serious to effective emergency administration, together with:
- Tournament-Primarily based entirely Surveillance: Bettering early detection and response by effective signal administration from diverse sources.
- One Health Collaboration: Strengthening built-in surveillance and fleet knowledge alternate between human, animal, and environmental health sectors.
- Incident Management: Enforcing structured response measures, defining clear roles, and facilitating staunch-time handy resource tracking and reporting.
- Crew Management: Streamlining emergency group deployment, profiling, and group coordination.
- Partner Coordination: Bettering transparency and collaboration by tracking accomplice activities, preventing duplication, and maximizing handy resource utilization.
- Evolved Data Analytics and Visualization: Utilizing interactive dashboards, GIS mapping, and predictive analytics for told possibility-making and fleet response.
- Method Integration and Interoperability: Ensuring seamless integration with Ethiopia’s existing health systems, together with DHIS2, EIOS, HMIS, and Parts of Entry (POE), providing versatile knowledge alternate alternate choices and deployment flexibility.
Additionally, 17 contributors bought specialised IT training on utility administration and customization of the ePHEM system.
This training is a key step within the digitalization of public health emergency administration, bettering staunch-time knowledge sequence, diagnosis, and response. By integrating ePHEM with DHIS2, Ethiopia is reworking its public health emergency administration system and improving knowledge-pushed possibility-making, guaranteeing a extra efficient and timely response to health threats.
