Integrated Disease Surveillance including Data Management (IDS)

The mission of Integrated Disease Surveillance including Data Management is

To contribute to the establishment of a functional integrated disease surveillance system for monitoring of priority communicable diseases and evaluation of relevant health interventions.
To provide epidemiological information for disease situation assessment and trends monitoring (including using the regional data base), for disease control programme design and evaluation, for evidence-based health policy design and decisions, for health promotion and for advocacy for health including resource mobilization
Facilitate information sharing on priority communicable diseases among Member States through the publication of a regular epidemiological information bulletin and reports.

The core responsibilities are to:

Coordinate support to Member States for the implementation of IDS strategy
Document disease surveillance achievements, lessons learnt and constraints in the African region.
Contribute to the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the IDS component of CDS programme.
Coordinate development and dissemination of communicable disease surveillance and data management tools, including basic guidelines, applications/software, in collaboration with WHO/HQ and external technical partners such as CDC Atlanta.
Coordinate Regional Data base updating, quality, maintenance and security, in collaboration with other Clusters, ISTs, Centres of excellence (CoE), ICT and GSM
Provide feedback to IST and CoE teams in charge of the production of Strategic Epidemiological Information
Produce and Support production of communicable disease Strategic Epidemiological Information
Coordinate technical support to Member States for IDS and disease prevention and control interventions (ex. PCT) data management in collaboration with WHO/HQ and other partners
Publish and disseminate Communicable Disease Reports and Epidemiological Bulletin
Provide technical support to disease prevention and control programmes for epidemiological investigations and data management