Managing and assembling population-scale data streams, tools and workflows to plan for future pandemics within the INFORM-Africa Consortium

Jenicca Poongavanan¹, Joicymara Xavier^{2

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4}, Marcel Dunaiski⁵, Houriiyah Tegally^{1

6}, Sunday Oladejo¹, Olawole Ayorinde⁷, Eduan Wilkinson¹, Cheryl Baxter^{1

8}, Tulio de Oliveira^{1

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8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
² Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Unaí, Brazil.
³ Instituto René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Institute of Biological Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Computer Science, School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
⁶ KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁷ Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria.
⁸ Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa.
⁹ Department of Global Health, University of Washington; Seattle, USA.

Jenicca Poongavanan et al. S Afr J Sci. 2023 May-Jun.

. 2023 May-Jun;119(5-6):14569.

doi: 10.17159/sajs.2023/14659. Epub 2023 May 30.

¹ Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
² Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Unaí, Brazil.
³ Instituto René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Institute of Biological Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Computer Science, School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
⁶ KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
⁷ Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria.
⁸ Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa.
⁹ Department of Global Health, University of Washington; Seattle, USA.

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