Mary Stephen

Datos Biográficos

ID6980346
NOMBREMary Stephen
NOMBRESMary
APELLIDOStephen
FIRMASTEPHEN M
AFILIACIONESWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
ORCID0000-0002-8464-3657
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Two rounds of the Pandemic Fund at the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region

    Open AccessMohamed Elhakim, Amgad Elkholy et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    World Health Organization (WHO) played an important role in supporting the Member States of the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) apply for awards from the Pandemic Fund - a vital source of funding for pandemic preparedness and response. The aim of this commentary is to reflect the contributions of WHO EMR during the first two funding rounds of the Pandemic Fund, while highlighting the lessons learned, and addressing the ongoing challenges faced…

  • Mapping the international health regulations monitoring and evaluation framework

    Open AccessRobert Nguni, Nirmal Kandel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    The International Health Regulations Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (IHRMEF) includes four components regularly conducted by States Parties to measure the current status of International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 core capacities and provide recommendations for strengthening these capacities. However, the four components are conducted independently of one another and have no systematic referral to each other before, during or after each p…

  • Low scoring IHR core capacities in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, 2018–2020

    Open AccessBarbara Burmen, Cynthia Bell et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    box The International Health Regulation core capacities are essential for detecting, assessing, notifying, reporting and responding to public health risks and events of national and international concern

  • Implementing Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in all countries in the WHO African region

    Open AccessIbrahima-Soce Fall, Roland Kimbi Wango et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    Following the West Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak (2013–2016), the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) is one of the three voluntary components recommended by the WHO for evaluating the International Health Regulations (2005) capacities in countries. Here, we share experience implementing JEEs in all 47 countries in the WHO African region. In February 2016, the United Republic of Tanzania (Mainland) was the first country globally to conduct a JE…

  • Electronic reporting of integrated disease surveillance and response

    Open AccessLuka Mangveep Ibrahim, Ifeanyi Okudo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    The eIDSR has increased the number of health facilities reporting IDSR, enabled early identification, reporting, and verification of alerts, improved timeliness and completeness of reports, and supportive supervision of staff at the operational levels. It was well accepted by the stakeholder as a system that made reporting easy with the potential to improve the public health surveillance system in Nigeria

  • Spatial and temporal distribution of infectious disease epidemics, disasters and other potential public health emergencies in the World Health Organisation Africa region, 2016–2018

    Open AccessAmbrose Talisuna, Ambrose Otau TALISUNA et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Emerging and re-emerging diseases with pandemic potential continue to challenge fragile health systems in Africa, creating enormous human and economic toll. To provide evidence for the investment case for public health emergency preparedness, we analysed the spatial and temporal distribution of epidemics, disasters and other potential public health emergencies in the WHO African region between 2016 and 2018. METHODS: We abstracted dat…

  • A rapid assessment of the implementation of integrated disease surveillance and response system in Northeast Nigeria, 2017

    Open AccessLuka Mangveep Ibrahim, Mary Stephen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The major gaps were poor documentation of patients' data in the facility registers, inadequate reporting tools, limited participation of health facilities in IDSR and limited capacities of personnel to identify, report IDSR priority diseases, analyze and interpret IDSR data for decision making. Training of surveillance focal persons, provision of IDSR reporting tools and effective supportive supervisions will strengthen the system in the country

  • Awareness and Adoption of a Nationally Disseminated Dietary Curriculum

    Marilyn S Nanney, Debra Haire-Joshu et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2007