Research and Training Network (AFNNET), Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS), Cysticercosis Working Group in East and Southern Africa (CGWESA), in addition to OHCEA and other smaller ones. Some of these networks have evolved and expanded from existing regional disease surveillance networks with the role of mitigating the threat of infectious disease outbreaks ([@bib2]).

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Global Burden of Disease.

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Japhet Killewo is a professor of Epidemiology at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania. He teaches epidemiology and biostatistics to undergraduates and post-graduate students in the university and offers short courses in data management, research methodology and monitoring and evaluation to other scholars. He does research in communicable and non-communicable diseases and he was the first in Tanzania to design the largest fieldconsiderable number of research proposals and manuscripts for various peer reviewed international journals. JK has published widely in local as well as international journals and has written chapters in books and edited a section in the International Encyclopaedia of Public Health. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the derivative volume on Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health and has more than 80 published articles in journals to his credit.

Email: <jkillewo@yahoo.co.uk>

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William Bazeyo is a Ugandan physician, academician and Occupational Health specialist. He is currently a Professor of occupational medicine at Makerere University college of Health Sciences\' School of Public Health where he is the Dean of the school. Makerere University is the oldest university in Uganda. He is also the Lab Director and Chief of Party of Resilient Africa