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.
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.
10 December 2024
Dr Ed Newman, Director of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) has recently been elected as co-deputy chair of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) Steering Committee.
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.
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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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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