Digital tools in epidemic monitoring

Ebola, Covid-19, dengue… In the fight against epidemics, digital tools are increasingly called upon iStock / ipopba

By: Caroline Paré Follow

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Program recorded in Lavaur on the occasion of the Pierre Fabre Foundation Conference: Observatory of e-health in southern countries Ebola, Covid-19, dengue ... In the fight against epidemics, digital tools are increasingly put to work.

The Pierre Fabre Foundation brings together major players, decision-makers, doctors, institutions engaged in the development of these technologies in the service of monitoring epidemics and emerging diseases.  

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What role can they play?

How did they integrate and then shape national epidemic control strategies?

  • Béatrice Garrette

    , Executive Director of the

    Pierre Fabre Foundation

  • Dr Boukary Ouedraogo

    , Director of Health Information Systems at the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso

  • Pr Antoine Geissbuhler

    , chief physician of the e-health telemedicine service at

    Geneva hospitals

    , director of

    the French-speaking Africa network for telemedicine

  • Rodrigue Kafui Koffi Akolly

    , Founder and Executive Director of

    Friendly e-Center

    , Applications Working on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Monitoring in Togo

  • Arnold Wogbo

    , founder and director of Executif Genity on its

    AnemiApp

    application

    , for people with sickle cell disease in the DRC.

Go further : 

Website of the Observatory of E-Health in Southern Countries 

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