Mohamed A. Yusuf, PhD
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Automated polio surveillance reporting

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Automated polio surveillance reporting at WHO AFRO

Polio surveillance

Developed automated R workflows for WHO AFRO's weekly polio surveillance bulletin, integrating data across 47 Member States.

2023–2025 Polio and VPD surveillance Open-source software

Overview

Polio surveillance across the WHO African Region draws on multiple data systems, requiring regular integration, cleaning and validation.

My contribution

At WHO AFRO, I developed an automated R pipeline producing a weekly surveillance bulletin of more than 60 pages, distributed to over 500 recipients. I also developed analytical tools with the Nigeria National Polio Emergency Operations Centre and supported their transfer to national teams. I wrote poliprep with Derrick Demeveng and contributed code to the US CDC packages sirfunctions and tidypolis.

Selected outputs

Automated surveillance pipeline, R packages and reproducible reporting workflows.

  • PolioAutomate pipeline code on GitHub

The bulletin and the Nigeria platform contain operational surveillance data and are not reproduced here.

Related

Software

poliprep hex logo poliprep polisapi polisapi polioclean polioclean polioanalytica polioanalytica sirfunctions hex logo sirfunctions tidypolis tidypolis

Publications

  1. 2025 Talk

    Building in-house analytical software: lessons from poliprep

    Talk

    Yusuf, M.

    WHO AFRO GIS Centre Regional Summit, Brazzaville

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