Adapting Longstanding Public Health Collaborations between Government of Kenya and CDC Kenya in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020–2021
Amy Herman-Roloff
, Rashid Aman, Taraz Samandari, Kadondi Kasera, Gideon O. Emukule, Patrick Amoth, Tai-Ho Chen, Jackton Kisivuli, Herman Weyenga, Elizabeth Hunsperger, Clayton Onyango, Bonventure Juma, Peninah Munyua, Daniel Wako, Victor Akelo, Davies Kimanga, Linus Ndegwa, Ahmed Abade Mohamed, Peter Okello, Samuel Kariuki, Kevin M. De Cock, Marc Bulterys, and
CDC-Kenya COVID-19 Response Team
Author affiliations: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya (A. Herman-Roloff, T. Samandari, G. Emukule, T.-H. Chen, H. Weyenga, E. Hunsperger, C. Onyango, B. Juma, P. Munyua, D. Wako, V. Akelo, D. Kimanga, L. Ndegwa, K.M. De Cock, M. Bulterys); Ministry of Health, Nairobi (R. Aman, K. Kasera, P. Amoth); Kenya Prisons Service, Nairobi (J. Kisivuli, P. Okello); Africa Field Epidemiology Network, Nairobi (A.A. Mohamed); Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi (S. Kariuki)
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Figure 2. Locations of county EOCs supported by CDC Kenya in a review of longstanding public health collaborations between the government of Kenya and CDC Kenya in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By early 2021, the Kenya Ministry of Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Kenya, and World Health Organization began decentralizing Kenya’s emergency management. As of December 2021, a total of 17 county-led EOCs had been established in Kenya. Those 17 new EOCs established incident management systems and produced routine situation reports that guided the county-level response to the COVID-19 epidemic in Kenya. EOC, Emergency Operations Center.
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