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.
16 October 2024
The UK-PHRST has deployed two of its experts to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to support Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) in its response to the ongoing mpox epidemic.
21st May 2024
As a part of the Rapid Response Mobile Labs (RRML) Network, the UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) took part in the first ever Interregional Field Simulation Exercise (IFX): a three-part exercise to review and test the proposed minimum standards across the whole RRML life cycle, from pre-deployment, during outbreak response and end-of-mission phases. The exercise also tested how RRMLs work alongside other WHO health emergency workforce assets, such as Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs), just as in a real outbreak.
Read the highlights, challenges and learnings from the three-part exercise.
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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