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LSHTM. 2019. Infographic: Which interventions are used in disease outbreak response? Available from: https://moocs.lshtm.ac.uk/disease_outbreak_intervention/

LSHTM. Emergency and epidemic data kit. Available from: https://opendatakit.lshtm.ac.uk/edk/

Surveillance Outbreak Response Management System. Digital solutions for mHealth and eHealth Surveillance. Available from: https://sormasorg.helmholtz-hzi.de/index.html

Olu, OO et al. 2016. Incident management systems are essential for effective coordination of large disease outbreaks: Perspectives from the coordination of the Ebola outbreak response in Sierra Leone. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5117105/pdf/fpubh-04-00254.pdf

WHO. 2013. Emergency response framework. Available from: https://www.who.int/hac/about/erf_.pdf

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