25 December 2023, Cairo, Egypt – Data management skills can help experts to better handle health emergency data and respond to public health challenges. To strengthen data management in health emergency response, WHO conducted the Regional Training on Capacity Development of Data Analytics and Dissemination, using R software, in Amman, Jordan, on 3–7 December 2023.

The training was attended by epidemiologists and surveillance officers from the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, ministries of health from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and WHO country offices in Afghanistan, Egypt and Jordan.