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Thanks for your feedback, Sayama Nang Phyoe. I have to follow our organization’s data sharing policy among different stakeholders.

Thank you for your feedback, ama Wah.
When there is internet issue, I am considering offline SMS message or phone call reports. The focal will fill the forms for further reporting process.

Thanks for your comment, Saya. I will redesign it into comprehensive one.

As NCD is one of the burden on healthcare, the CKDSS is very impressive to learn, Salin. Congratulations for your presentation! I would like to ask one question as this is differnet from infectious one. How often will you collect the data and analyze at the regional or national office? Do the physician or laboratory technician involve in that? Thank you

Congratulations for your presentation about HFMD, Jen. In our country, HFMD incidences are increasing and is still micmicing other fever with rash infections. I like your system structure to implement and connected to national surveillance unit. I would like to know more about event reporting and evaluation indicator, stability. Could you please…[Read more]

Congratulations for your presentation, Ama Wah. Malaria is still challenging for our regions and require the comprehensive system for the control and prevention of infection.
I have learnt many points from you and I am curious to ask the questions.
Could you please explain about the village health volunteers, whether they will be trained for the…[Read more]

PM Lee communicate with the public as early as possible 2 weeks after the new situation while President Trump shared the information only after declaration of Pandemic by WHO.
PM Lee clearly mentioned who was taking leading role for handling the Covid 19 situation and relieved the public not to be panic by comparing the past experience.…[Read more]

For me, leadership is an art which has to be flexible and strong at the same time. Because it relates with human beings, the leadership should not be infected with rigid rules all the time. The presence of mutual respect and belief between a leader and members is critical for getting team success.
Previous year, I became a team manager for new…[Read more]

Thanks for your discussion, Saya. Yes, I think that many organization with different data sets used for the projects and programs makes the data into fragmentaiton and impact the data quality

Team: For this theme, our country needs improvement in joint planning and action among different stakeholders. Due to underreporting and difficulty in rapport building among sectors, we must put many efforts to collaborate under same goal.
For transparency and trust, as mentioned above, there is still dilemma to give health data is safe or not…[Read more]

I agree with you, Jen. This is also challenge for our country for collection the data and lack of infracstructure to manage the big data makes people’s involvement in building synchronized digital health system.

Thanks for mentioning AMR, Saya. I also agree that it is challenging issue for both clinical and public health.
Especially for LDC countries, we have policy and laws, but did not practice thoroughly and is weak in administration level.
AMR can cause many PHEIC if we still neglect this matter

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?

1. H1N1 Pandemic: The infection started from North America in April and WHO declared a pandemic in June 2009, a total of 74 countries and territories had reported laboratory confirmed infections

2. Ebola:It started in…[Read more]

Thanks for your discussion for using AEFI indicators, Ama. I have no idea to use these indicators and just focused on data completeness and timeliness.

1.) Which single design limitation most threatens valid estimates of sensitivity and representativeness? How would you address it within six weeks?
In this AEFI surveillance system, there is parallel different reporting systems to national level by single health facility. They have no interoperability, usability and used different tools for data…[Read more]

I really like your idea of adding IT analysis on social media for misinformation alert, Ama. And I see the widely use of IT in epidemiology is really effective for public health interventions and is technically reliable for the projects.

Verification and Preparation Stage, there are 3 following steps to do.
1. Establish the existence of an outbreak
2. Verify the diagnosis
3. Prepare for field work
To verify the outbreak, the field team can report the data within short time and the response team can check whether it is over alert line or not by comparing the former database. The…[Read more]

I like the data visualization tools for decision support in COVID 19 surveillance and response. In COVID 19 pandemic period, enormous big data were collected through nationwide surveillance sites. If the public health professionals cannot use the information technology for presenting the result of those data analysis, the responses for prevention…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing about digital contact tracing, Sayama Khaing. It is easier to trace the contact by traditional methods and can also give awareness to the community immediately. As you mentioned, the privacy of users may be violated if there is no security guarding measures for data sharing.