Development of a Subnational Health Security Capacities Assessment Tool: Lessons From Nigeria and Implications for...

Jenom S Danjuma¹, Oyeladun Okunromade¹, Olukayode Fasominu¹+21

• ¹Jenom S. Danjuma, MBBS, MPH, MIAD, is Principal Advisor and Manager; Emem Udoh, LLB, LLM, is a Senior Legal Advisor; Celestina Obiekea, MSc, is a Senior Laboratory Advisor; and Rabi Usman, MBBS, MPH, is a Senior Technical Advisor, Health Security and Event-Based Surveillance; all with Prevent Epidemics, Resolve to Save Lives, Abuja, Nigeria. Oyeladun Okunromade, MBBS, MPH, is Head, and Clement Daam, MBBS, MPH, is Lead, Measles Technical Working Group, Surveillance and Epidemiology; and Lois Olajide, MBBS, MPH, is Head, IHR Division; all at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria. Olukayode Fasominu, MD, MPH, is Executive Director, Volte Health Systems Limited, Abuja, Nigeria. Christopher T. Lee, MD, MSc, MPH, is Director, Epidemic Intelligence, and Eleanor Peters Bergquist, PhD, MSPH, MA, is a Senior Technical Advisor; both with Prevent Epidemics, Prevent Epidemics Resolve to Save Lives, Alexandria, VA. Augustine O. Dada, MD, MPH, is a Doctoral Candidate, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Mahmood Dalhat, MD, MPH, is Medical Director, Infectious Diseases Control Centre, Kaduna State, Nigeria. Olusola Aruna, MBChB, MPH, DCH, FFPH, is Country Lead and Senior Public Health Advisor, International Health Regulations Strengthening Programme in Nigeria, UK Health Security Agency, Abuja, Nigeria. Oyeronke Oyebanji, MSc, is a Doctoral Candidate, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Chinyere Ezeudu, MBBS, MPH, is a State Epidemiologist, Enugu State Ministry of Health, State Secretariat, Enugu, Nigeria. Basheer Muhammad, MBBS, MPH, is a State Epidemiologist, Kano State Ministry of Health, Kano, Nigeria. Abubakar M. Bagudu, MSc, is Director Public Health, and Assad Hassan, MBBS, MPH, is a State Epidemiologist; both with the Kebbi State Ministry of Health, Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. Joseph Odu, BPharm, MHM, is Regional Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer (Africa), Project HOPE HQ, Washington, DC. Elisha Ashasim Andebutop, MBBS, MPH, is COVID/Global Health Security Governance Advisor, USAID Nigeria (Former Senior Technical Assistant to the Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention), Abuja, Nigeria. Elsie Ilori, MSc, is CEPI Consultant for Enable 1.5 Project Coordination, Nigeria (Former Director, Department of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention), Abuja, Nigeria. Emmanuel Agogo, MD, MPH, is Director of Pandemic Threats, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland. Ifedayo Adetifa, MBBS, MSc, PhD, is Chief Transformation Officer/Chief Executive Officer, FIND, Geneva, Switzerland. Chikwe Ihekweazu, MBBS, FFPH, MPH, is Assistant Director-General, Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems, WHO Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, Berlin, Germany.