An Appeal to the Global Health Community for a Tripartite Innovation: An “Essential Diagnostics List,” “Health in All Policies,” and “See-Through 21^st Century Science and Ethics”

Evidence Decision-Making Policy Practice in Emerging Pandemics and Epidemics Threats Preparedness and Response Operations in Africa

“…With the last category being sub-classified into primary (community-based) public health and clinical (medical), analytical diagnostic laboratories are very critical in frontline and participative roles for optimal performance. It should be noted that the establishment of robust and reliable etiological agents causing the diseases or outbreaks vary with respect to each category of emerging infectious diseases or zoonosis [2,8,17]. We underscore that the public health preparedness and rapid response needs, especially in evolving local and global threats and outbreaks establishing in both new and old areas worldwide.…”

“…These are grouped based on the disease or health epidemics nature, extend, ecological and geolocation, burden and impacts of implemented programs or projects on morbidity and mortality/fatality reduction or prevention; as well as on poverty and inequity alleviation within the vulnerable population and citizenry over time [16,17].…”

“…Eventually, evidence management and sharing process thus became responsible to drive the shared behavioural changes and best practices with an understanding at the same time, important to improve of the overall preparedness, emergency response to care service delivery for impact [17,27].…”

“…Interestingly, there has been remarkable rise to record 6.7 per cent GDP growth rate and improved economic performance at the macro-level in the past six years. GDP growth rate consistently rose reaching 6.2 percent in 2002 [14,17]. Structural reforms in a stable social -political environment, underpinned by implementation of the three years of the PRS which focused more on priority social sectors should be strengthening in recuing current challenges including maintaining socio-political stability as the country strives for still higher economic growth, equity and improved quality of life.…”

“…Significant improvement in performance is evident in areas such as primary education and road network from 2008-to date. Overall, the current levels of evidence-base access to and uptake of care delivery of services in pandemics/epidemics emergency response require further improvements in quantity and quality investments in scaling up successful knowledge for poverty alleviation interventions should make use of both the tangible and intangible assets found in a poor community in improving the benefits of vaccination programmes stretch beyond immunization and health services and promoting social integration [17,22].…”