Welcome to the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) Knowledge Hub, for everyone interested in responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases. It provides an online meeting place where researchers and policy makers can share resources, evidence and discuss best practice to support response to outbreaks in low and middle income countries.
21 August 2025
The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, working alongside the Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN), has successfully delivered the GOARN Tier 1.5 Orientation to National and International Outbreak Response Workshop for the first time. In collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), 34 public health professionals including CARPHA personnel based in Trinidad and Tobago and representatives spanning 10 Member States took part in the training.
25 July 2025
The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team recently held the latest iteration of its deployment training programme; ‘The Deployment Peer Learning Programme (DPLP)’ and launched a new resource hub on the Global Health Network.
25 March 2025
The UK-PHRST showcased its expertise in outbreak response on multiple fronts at the UKHSA Conference in Manchester, from hosting a panel including international players in disease outbreak response, to sharing learnings from our deployment experiences.
UK-PHRST and Africa CDC's joint study to evaluate how international public health deployments strengthen national outbreak preparedness and response capabilities across African Union member states has shared 15 co-developed recommendations to strengthen the impact of future deployments, create sustainable change and outline the conditions that support the most effective outcomes.
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New ethnographic toolkit to facilitate community workshops and focus group discussions which can be adapted for use in any disease outbreak. The toolkit has been developed as part of a study to track online and offline rumours and concerns about COVID-19 to better understand their mechanisms and influence, and to identify solutions to address community concerns during health emergencies.
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The UK-PHRST and Partners' Learning Review 2024 Report highlights case studies where our work has achieved real impact that arose during a three-day learning session in Nairobi in June 2024.
The report also provides 20 recommendations for improved future ways of working and includes UK-PHRST senior leadership responses showing the actions that the UK-PHRST is committed to taking as a result.
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