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Call for papers: Enhancing disease surveillance and response: community-based surveillance among crisis-affected populations

© Tania Seburyamo on behalf of WHOEdited by Jonathan Polonsky and Anna Kuehne 

Conflict and Health

Conflict and Health invites you to submit to our new collection on community-based surveillance (CBS) among crisis-affected populations. 

Since the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, CBS has been increasingly recognized as a crucial component of surveillance of public health events in low- and middle-income countries, fragile states, and in areas affected by humanitarian crises – yet the evidence base related to the application and performance of CBS remains limited.

This collection welcomes papers that address key questions such as:

  • How can CBS be used to augment the formal public health surveillance system?
  • How effective and feasible is CBS in areas affected by crises?
  • What are the various methodological approaches to implementing CBS?
  • What are the key barriers to implementing CBS and how can they be overcome?

This collection is open to submissions of quantitative and qualitative research papers, reviews, short reports, case studies, methodology articles, commentaries, and debate articles, which would undergo the journal’s normal peer review process and be subject to an article-processing charge. 

Manuscripts should be formatted according to our submission guidelines and submitted via the online submission system. During the submission process, please make sure the correct collection title is chosen at the 'Additional Information' step. Please also indicate clearly in the covering letter that the manuscript is to be considered for this collection. This is an open-ended collection and articles will be accepted for on-going publication. 

  1. Malnutrition remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality amongst children in displaced settings. Nutrition at this stage is crucial for the growth and development of the child. It is estimated that 41 mil...

    Authors: Ayuk Betrand Tambe, Mbah Larissa Akeh, Nicholas Tendongfor, Thembekile Dhlamini, Given Chipili and Xikombiso Mbhenyane
    Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. In 2008, Somalia introduced an electronic based Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) for real time detection and response to alerts of epidemic prone diseases in a country experiencing a complex hu...

    Authors: Mutaawe Lubogo, Mary Joan Karanja, Rennatus Mdodo, Sherein Elnossery, Ali Abdirahman Osman, Abdulkadir Abdi, Evans Buliva, Muhammad Tayyab, Omar Abdulle Omar, Mirza Mashrur Ahmed, Solomon Chane Abera, Abdinasir Abubakar and Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik
    Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. The need for early identification of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in communities was high in Yemen during the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic because most cases presenting to health facilities were...

    Authors: Manal Salem Omar Baaees, Jeremias D. Naiene, Ali Ahmed Al-Waleedi, Nasreen Salem Bin-Azoon, Muhammad Fawad Khan, Nuha Mahmoud and Altaf Musani
    Citation: Conflict and Health 2021 15:54
    Content type: Research in practice Published on:

  4. The world’s second largest Ebola outbreak occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2018 to 2020. At the time, risk of cross-border spread into South Sudan was very high. Thus, the South Sudan Ministry...

    Authors: Velma K. Lopez, Sharmila Shetty, Angelo Thon Kouch, Matthew Tut Khol, Richard Lako, Alexandre Bili, Anyang David Ayuen, Agnes Jukudu, Ajak Ater Kug, Atem David Mayen, Emmanuel Nyawel, Kibebu Berta, Olushayo Olu, Kevin Clarke and Sudhir Bunga
    Citation: Conflict and Health 2021 15:27
    Content type: Research in practice Published on:

  5. Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a major global threat. Armed and protracted conflicts act as multipliers of infection and ABR, thus leading to increased healthcare and societal costs. We aimed to understand and...

    Authors: Elsa Kobeissi, Marilyne Menassa, Krystel Moussally, Ernestina Repetto, Ismail Soboh, Marwan Hajjar, Shadi Saleh and Ghassan Abu-Sittah
    Citation: Conflict and Health 2021 15:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Complex emergencies resulting from conflict and political instability are a major challenge for national neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) control and elimination programmes, especially in sub-Saharan Africa....

    Authors: Louise A. Kelly-Hope, Angelia M. Sanders, Emma Harding-Esch, Johan Willems, Fatima Ahmed, Fiona Vincer and Rebecca Hill
    Citation: Conflict and Health 2021 15:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Community-based surveillance (CBS) has been used successfully in many situations to strengthen existing health systems as well as in humanitarian crises. The Anglophone crisis of Northwest Southwest Cameroon, ...

    Authors: Alain Metuge, Lundi-Anne Omam, Elizabeth Jarman and Esther Omam Njomo
    Citation: Conflict and Health 2021 15:17
    Content type: Research in practice Published on: