Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria
University of Medical Sciences, Ondo City, Nigeria.
BMJ Glob Health. 2022 Sep;7(Suppl 7). doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007993.
Response to public health emergencies requires continued adaptation and innovation. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is the country's public health institute with the mandate to protect the health of Nigerians. Achieving such mandate in resource-limited settings with divergent demographic characteristics of the citizens, necessitates the readiness to learn from experience and to develop policies and activities in line with lessons learnt and best practices. This practice paper describes the initiatives of the NCDC towards adapting its public health response activities by establishing learning systems across its structure. The paper informs on some of the steps taken by the Centre regarding learning from the Lassa fever outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. It concludes that commitment and investments are key requirements for learning and adapting public health responses to achieve success with combating infectious diseases.
应对公共卫生突发事件需要不断地适应和创新。尼日利亚疾病控制中心（NCDC）是该国的公共卫生机构，其任务是保护尼日利亚人的健康。在资源有限且公民具有不同人口特征的环境中实现这一任务，需要随时准备从经验中学习，并制定符合经验教训和最佳实践的政策和活动。本实践论文描述了 NCDC 通过在其结构中建立学习系统来调整其公共卫生应对活动的举措。本文介绍了该中心在从尼日利亚的拉沙热爆发和 COVID-19 大流行中吸取教训方面所采取的一些措施。本文得出结论，承诺和投资是学习和调整公共卫生应对措施以成功应对传染病的关键要求。
