The Standard Operating Procedures for Coordinating Public Health Event Preparedness and Response in the WHO African Region (“the SOPs”) seek to inform and assist WHO staff at the frontline of public health action. The primary purpose of the SOPs is to describe the steps that staff should normally follow in support of countries in the region with regard to the prevention, detection and response to acute public health events. Although the focus is on infectious diseases, given their importance in the African Region, the funding, administrative, logistics and coordination mechanisms described are equally applicable to acute public health events caused by other hazards. • • A Systematic Review of Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (EOC). Gt4 Ps2 Save Game. This decision-framework document aims to provide and approach for deciding which vaccines, if pre-emptively and properly delivered at the outset of an emergency, would constitute high priority public-health interventions and would reduce avoidable death and disease. It will assist the user to determine thoughtfully, deliberately, ethically and rationally whether or not the delivery of one or more vaccines to specific target populations during the acute phase of an emergency, would result in an overall saving of lives, a reduction in the population burden of disease and in generally more favourable outcomes. • ERF is to clarify WHO’s roles and responsibilities and to provide a common approach for its work in emergencies.
