The Outbreak Surveillance by Community Health Workers in Uganda project develops a community-based outbreak surveillance system for community health workers in the Living Goods network in Uganda using Medic Mobile’s existing open-source, offline-enabled mobile app. Community health workers are trained to identify symptoms for epidemic-prone illnesses such as measles, meningitis, VHF, cholera, and AFP.
The envisioned system will facilitate door-to-door outbreak surveillance, provide decision support for CHWs and families, and enable rapid reporting of potential outbreaks and automate sharing of surveillance data with health authorities. The project also builds the capacity of community health workers to implement and manage surveillance systems. Through this effort the project aims to create global and regional reference sites and to serve as a case study for other community health worker programs.