Electronic Epidemiologic Biosurveillance in the Cameroon Military

Authors

  • Karen Saylors Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • Matthew LeBreton Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • Essisima Foe Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • Aboudem Bavou Clement Martial Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • Nancy Ortiz Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • Christopher Perdue Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • Ubald Tamoufe Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5082

Abstract

Electronic epi-biosurveillance presents an opportunity to provide real-time disease surveillance alerts from remote areas to central disease management units, to rapidly decrease reporting times for reportable diseases, and to enable appropriate response scenarios to be put in place in a timely manner. Piloting the SAGES system in Cameroon, a resource-limited country in central Africa, has benefits and challenges in developing systems of public health engagement.

Author Biography

Karen Saylors, Metabiota, San Francisco, CA, United States

Karen Saylors, Ph.D. is a medical anthropologist by training and has 13 years of experience implementing and managing projects in diverse cultural contexts. She has managed large teams in field research, behavioral health service provision, and research and evaluation in the US and in Africa. Karen was Director of Research and Evaluation for a Native American non-profit organization for five years, engaging community readiness approaches appropriate to various cultures, and worked for Navajo Nation and the New Mexico Department of Public Health conducting population based surveillance and field epidemiology. Karen lived in Africa for two years and continues to run programs in central Africa, running health research projects for non-profit organizations, for Medecins Sans Frontiers and most recently with the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, where she has been both Chief Operating Officer and more recently the Director of Behavioral Sciences.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Saylors, K., LeBreton, M., Foe, E., Clement Martial, A. B., Ortiz, N., Perdue, C., & Tamoufe, U. (2014). Electronic Epidemiologic Biosurveillance in the Cameroon Military. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5082

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Lightning Talks