EPIHACK TANZANIA

1.0 Background An Epihack event was organized and held at the Mount Meru hotel located in Arusha city of Tanzania on December 8th-12th 2014. The event was co-hosted by the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS), Eastern African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet), Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance Network (CORDS) and Innovative Support…

EpiHack code fest convenes developers and animal and human health experts to jointly develop digital prototypes for disease detection in the East Africa and Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) member states. EpiHack connects leading technologist, programmers and public health experts in the Southern and East African Regions to join intensive hack day events to create,…

Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) convened its first EpiHack in Africa from in partnership with the East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet). The first EpiHack in Africa took place in Arusha, where the IT specialists demonstrated the prototypes developed. Click here for the summary of exciting #EpiHackTanzania2014 from ILabSEA

The public health disease surveillance in Africa, largely, relies on paper-based systems that are inefficient in capturing disease events that occur in distant rural areas where the majority of Africans live. Jacqueline Uriyo, the Acting Regional Medical Officer, made the remarks here when speaking at the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance’s first EpiHack…

Dear Epihack Tanzania Participants, Habari (how are you)! The Southern African Centre for Infectious Diseases and Surveillance (SACIDS) is delighted to be hosting you in Arusha city (Tanzania) from September 8th – 12th December 2014. Programme The programme for Epihack Meeting will be sent to your email and available online at http://www.sacids.org/oweb/sacids/home/one~health~portal/epihack soon. Invitation letter…

Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) is a One Health consortium of Southern African academic and research institutions involved with infectious diseases of humans and animals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Tanzania. The Headquarters of SACIDS is located at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro, Tanzania.…

Participants during EpiHackTanzania at the Mount Meru Hotel….#hackforhealth