Publications

2023 | Facilitators and Barriers in the Implementation of a Digital Surveillance and Outbreak Response System in Ghana Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Analysis of Stakeholder Interviews

Kaburi B, Wyss K, Kenu E, Asiedu-Bekoe F, Hauri A, Laryea D, Klett-Tammen C, Leone F, Walter C, Krause G
Facilitators and Barriers in the Implementation of a Digital Surveillance and Outbreak Response System in Ghana Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Analysis of Stakeholder Interviews
JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e45715
DOI: 10.2196/45715

2023 | Introduction and acceptability of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Côte d’Ivoire

Tanja Barth-Jaeggi, Clarisse A. Houngbedji, Marta S. Palmeirim, Daouda Coulibaly, Aboubakar Krouman, Cordula Ressing & Kaspar Wyss
BMC Public Health 23, Article number: 2189 (2023)

2018 | User Evaluation Indicates High Quality of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) After Field Deployment in Nigeria in 2015 and 2018

Tom-Aba, D., Toikkanen, S. E., Glockner, S., Adeoye, O., Mall, S., Fähnrich, C., Denecke, K., Benzler, J., Kirchner, G., Schwarz, N.,  Poggensee, G., Silenou, B.C., Ameh, C.A., Nguku, P., Olubunmi, O., Ihekweazu, C., & Krause, G. (2018).
User Evaluation Indicates High Quality of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) After Field Deployment in Nigeria in 2015 and 2018. German Medical Data Sciences, 253, 233-237.
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-896-9-233

2020 | Use of Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System for Human Monkeypox Outbreak, Nigeria, 2017-2019

Silenou, B. C., Tom-Aba, D., Adeoye, O., Arinze, C. C., Oyiri, F., Suleman, A. K., Yinka-Ogunleye, A., Dörrbecker, J., Ihekweazu, C., & Krause, G. (2020).
Use of Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System for Human Monkeypox Outbreak, Nigeria, 2017-2019. 
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26(2), 345-349.
DOI: 10.3201/eid2602.191139

2016 | Taking Digital Innovation into the Field of Infectious Diseases: The Case of SORMAS®

Moyer, D., Tom-Aba, D., Sharma, S., & Krause, G. (2017).

Taking Digital Innovation into the Field of Infectious Diseases: The Case of SORMAS®.
In: Oswald, G., Kleinemeier, M. (eds), Shaping the Digital Enterprise. Springer, Cham.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40967-2_11

2015 | Surveillance and Outbreak Response Management System (SORMAS) to support the control of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa

Fähnrich, C., Denecke, K., Adeoye, O.O., Benzler, J., Claus, H., Kirchner, G., Mall, S., Richter, R., Schapranow, M.P., Schwarz, N., Tom-Aba, D., Uflacker, M., Poggensee, G., & Krause, G. (2015).
Surveillance and Outbreak Response Management System (SORMAS) to support the control of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa. Eurosurveillance,  20(12).
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.12.21071

2017 | Piloting SORMAS (Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System): Association between task execution time and user feedback

Toikkanen, S. E., Adeoye, O., Ameh, C., Glöckner, S., Poggensee, G., & Krause, G. (2017).
Piloting SORMAS (Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System): Association between task execution time and user feedback. Das Gesundheitswesen, 79(8), 656-804.
DOI:10.1055/s-0037-1605995

2019 | Outbreak of human monkeypox in Nigeria in 2017-18: a clinical and epidemiological report

Yinka-Ogunleye, A., Aruna, O., Dalhat, M., Ogoina, D., McCollum, A., Disu, Y., Mamadu, I., Akinpelu, A., Ahmad, A., Burga, J., Ndoreraho, A., Nkunzimana, E., Manneh, L., Mohammed, A., Adeoye, O., Tom-Aba, D., Silenou, B., Ipadeola, O., Saleh, M., . . . Team, C. D. C. M. O. (2019).
Outbreak of human monkeypox in Nigeria in 2017-18: a clinical and epidemiological report. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 19(8), 872-879.
DOI:10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30294-4

2020 | Mobile-based and open-source infectious disease surveillance and outbreak management in Tanzania

Kassim, I., Arinze, C., Tom-Aba, D., Adeoye, O., Ihekweazu, C., McHugh, T.D., Abubakar, I., Krause, G., Mwakasungula, S., Masanja, H., & Aldridge R.W. (2020).
Mobile-based and open-source infectious disease surveillance and outbreak management in Tanzania. European Journal of Public Health, 30(5).
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.1347

2019 | Mobile-based and open-source case detection and infectious disease outbreak management systems: a review

Yavlinsky, A., Lule, S.A., Burns, R., Zumla, A., McHugh, T.D., Ntoumi, F., Masanja, H., Mwakasungula, S., Abubakar, I., & Aldridge, R.W. (2020).
Mobile-based and open-source case detection and infectious disease outbreak management systems: a review. Wellcome Open Research, 5(37).
DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15723.1.

2022 | Global Good Open Source Software Development in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Perspectives from SORMAS Implementation in Europe

Louw, C., Paffenholz, R., Verset, C., & Krause, G. (2022).
Global Good Open Source Software Development in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Perspectives from SORMAS Implementation in Europe. In Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health (pp. 669-673). IOS Press.
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI220553

2018 | Ebola Outbreak Containment: Real-Time Task and Resource Coordination With SORMAS

Perscheid, C., Benzler, J., Hermann, C., Janke, M., Moyer, D., Laedtke, T., Olawunmi, A., Denecke, K., Kirchner, G., Beermann, S., Schwarz, N., Tom-Aba, D., & Krause, G. (2018).
Ebola Outbreak Containment: Real-Time Task and Resource Coordination With SORMAS. Frontiers in ICT, 5 (7). 
DOI: 10.3389/fict.2018.00007

2017 | Assessing the Concepts and Designs of 58 Mobile Apps for the Management of the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola Outbreak: Systematic Review

Tom-Aba, D., Nguku, P. M., Arinze, C. C., & Krause, G. (2018).
Assessing the Concepts and Designs of 58 Mobile Apps for the Management of the 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola Outbreak: Systematic Review. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 4(4), e9015.
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.9015

2021 | A Novel Tool for Real-time Estimation of Epidemiological Parameters of Communicable Diseases Using Contact-Tracing Data: Development and Deployment

Silenou, B.C., Verset, C., Kaburi, B. B., Leuci, O., Ghozzi, S., Duboudin, C., & Krause, G. (2022).
A Novel Tool for Real-time Estimation of Epidemiological Parameters of Communicable Diseases Using Contact-Tracing Data: Development and Deployment. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 8(5), e34438.
DOI: 10.2196/34438

2021 | Availability and Suitability of Digital Health Tools in Africa for Pandemic Control: Scoping Review and Cluster Analysis

Silenou, B. C., Nyirenda, J. L. Z., Zaghloul, A., Lange, B., Doerrbecker, J., Schenkel, K., & Krause, G. (2021). Availability and Suitability of Digital Health Tools in Africa for Pandemic Control: Scoping Review and Cluster Analysis.  JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 7(12), e30106. doi: 10.2196/30106