Table 4 RPS for the research questions/topics for strengthening EPR capacities in Africa region
Broad EPR area | Research questions | Research priority score |
|---|---|---|
Clinical | What are the knowledge and skills gaps among healthcare workers in detecting and responding effectively to disease outbreaks? | 123.0 |
Epidemiology | What are the factors affecting the quality of data (accuracy, timeliness, completeness) for epidemic prone diseases? | 121.3 |
Clinical | What are the factors responsible for vaccine hesitancy? | 121.1 |
Clinical | What factors lead to increased transmission of infections among health care workers during public health emergencies? What measures are effective for ensuring that health workers are protected from highly infectious pathogens in public health emergencies? | 120.4 |
Epidemiology | What are the best strategies to improve the effectiveness of contact tracing for epidemic prone diseases? | 120.3 |
Clinical | Are the current case definitions effective as screening tools for epidemic and pandemic prone diseases? | 119.0 |
Epidemiology | How can national and sub-national laboratory capacity for timely disease confirmation be strengthened within the Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response framework? | 118.9 |
Epidemiology | What are the factors affecting prompt data sharing on epidemic-prone diseases? | 118.3 |
Implementation | What strategies are effective for appropriate community participation in EPR? | 117.7 |
Clinical | What training modalities build lasting capacity and improved performance for health emergency preparedness and response? Why are these successful and how can they be scaled up and sustained? | 117.6 |
Epidemiology | How can research results be best applied to ensure a more effective and rapid response across all scales of emergencies? | 117.1 |
Clinical | What measures are effective for improving the quality of care provided to patients in the treatment centers for highly infectious pathogens? | 116.4 |
Epidemiology | What are the minimum requirements for timely response to disease outbreaks? | 115.7 |
Implementation | What are the factors affecting health workers retention? | 115.7 |
Clinical | What are the barriers and how can we strengthen mechanisms for vaccines and pharmaceuticals trials for infectious diseases in Africa? | 115.6 |
Implementation | What are the factors responsible for poor compliance of community for emergency health intervention? | 115.1 |
Implementation | What is the appropriate skill mixed for effective EPR? | 114.6 |
Clinical | How can we better leverage innovations and technology to capacitate health services and facilities in under-resourced locations to improve health outcomes through better clinical characterization? | 114.4 |
Implementation | What are the challenges and enablers for community engagement? | 114.4 |
Epidemiology | What are the factors responsible for uptake of preventive interventions for seasonal diseased outbreaks? | 114.3 |
Epidemiology | How can community active case finding for epidemic prone diseases be established and implemented? | 114.1 |
Clinical | How can we get simplified technologies available and accessible at the points of care in underserved rural areas to improve case management of comorbidities in the context of emergencies? | 113.9 |
Implementation | How do risk communication mechanisms empower community engagement? | 113.6 |
Implementation | How to we build a data architecture for EPR within the African context?—data architecture triangulates data from different sectors | 113.6 |
Implementation | What are the factors that affect the use of evidence in planning and decision making? | 113.4 |