Individual Projects

Enhancing outbreak response through mobile health technology in Western Africa

Reference number: 01KA1710
Funding amount: 968.407 EUR
Funding Period: 2017 - 2018
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Gerard Krause
Address: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
Inhoffenstr. 7
38124 Braunschweig

The objectives are 1) to strengthening infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response through mHealth technology, 2) to develop a mobile app for community based syndromic surveillance (CSSA) for improved surveillance of acute respiratory and acute gastrointestinal syndromes and 3) to identifying target countries that would most benefit from early implementation of SORMAS.

This project is part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union.