Global Health Security Preparedness and Response: An Analysis of the Relationship between Joint External Evaluation Scores and COVID-19 Response Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance and complexity of a country's ability to effectively respond. The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) assessment was launched in 2016 to assess a country's ability to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies. We examined whether JEE indicators could be used to predict a country's COVID-19 response performance to tailor a country's support more effectively.

Design

From April to August 2020, we conducted interviews with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention country offices that requested COVID-19 support and previously completed the JEE (version 1.0). We used an assessment tool, the 'Emergency Response Capacity Tool' (ERCT), to assess COVID-19 response performance. We analysed 28 ERCT indicators a

SUBMITTER: Nguyen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8640194 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature