Design thinking during a health emergency: building a national data collection and reporting system

• Main Authors: Kara N. Durski (Author), Shalini Singaravelu (Author), Dhamari Naidoo (Author), Mamoudou Harouna Djingarey (Author), Ibrahima Soce Fall (Author), Ali Ahmed Yahaya (Author), Bruce Aylward (Author), Michael Osterholm (Author), Pierre Formenty (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Design thinking allows challenging problems to be redefined in order to identify alternative user-center strategies and solutions. To address the many challenges associated with collecting and reporting data during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, we u...