Jessica L Abbate

Biographic Data

ID7762596
NAMEJessica L Abbate
GIVEN NAMESJessica L
FAMILY NAMEAbbate
SIGNATUREABBATE J L
AFFILIATIONSUniversité de Montpellier
ORCID0000-0003-2485-3334
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Assessing the utility of the Covid-19 epidemic Situations of Concern classification system in guiding operational responses to the pandemic in the WHO African region

    Open AccessOpeayo Ogundiran, Jessica L Abbate et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    During a public health emergency, early implementation of response activities is crucial for saving lives and protecting livelihoods. The COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, posed a global public health crisis that required timely decision-making despite limited data and capacity. In this context, WHO’s Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) developed the Situations of Concern (SOC) classification syst…

  • WHO Global Situational Alert System

    Open AccessMartina McMenamin, Jessica Kolmer et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: Globally, since 1 January 2020 and as of 24 January 2023, there have been over 664 million cases of COVID-19 and over 6.7 million deaths reported to WHO. WHO developed an evidence-based alert system, assessing public health risk on a weekly basis in 237 countries, territories and areas from May 2021 to June 2022. This aimed to facilitate the early identification of situations where healthcare capacity may become overstretched. METHODS…

  • Covid-19 pandemic in Africa’s island nations during the first 9 months

    Open AccessTimokleia Kousi, Daniela Vivacqua et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    The geographic and economic characteristics unique to island nations create a different set of conditions for, and responses to, the spread of a pandemic compared with those of mainland countries. Here, we aimed to describe the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the potential conditions and responses affecting variation in the burden of infections and severe disease burden, across the six island nations of the WHO’s Africa region…

  • An in-depth statistical analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic’s initial spread in the WHO African region

    Open AccessAnanthu James, Jyoti Dalal et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, sub-Saharan African countries experienced comparatively lower rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections and related deaths than in other parts of the world, the reasons for which remain unclear. Yet, there was also considerable variation between countries. Here, we explored potential drivers of this variation among 46 of the 47 WHO African region Member States in a cross-sectional study. We described five indi…

  • Leveraging human resources for outbreak analysis

    Open AccessSara Botero Mesa, Flavio Codeço Coelho et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Emerging infectious diseases are a growing threat in sub-Saharan African countries, but the human and technical capacity to quickly respond to outbreaks remains limited. Here, we describe the experience and lessons learned from a joint project with the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) to support the sub-Saharan African COVID-19 response.In June 2020, WHO AFRO contracted a number of consultants to reinforce the COVID-19 response in member…

  • Covid-19 mortality in women and men in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJyoti Dalal, Isotta Triulzi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Since sex-based biological and gender factors influence COVID-19 mortality, we wanted to investigate the difference in mortality rates between women and men in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). METHOD: We included 69 580 cases of COVID-19, stratified by sex (men: n=43 071; women: n=26 509) and age (0-39 years: n=41 682; 40-59 years: n=20 757; 60+ years: n=7141), from 20 member nations of the WHO African region until 1 September 2020. We com…