Audrey Rachlin, Oluwasegun Joel Adegoke, Ester Sikare, Olorunsogo Bidemi Adeoye, Edward Dagoe, Asekun Adeyelu, Herman Tolentino, Jan MacGregor, Samuel Obasi, Gabriel Adah, Abdullahi Bulama Garba, Angela Ukpojo Abah, Josiah Friday, Ferdinand Oyiri, Angela Montesanti Porter, Lois Olajide, Idongesit Wilson, Ramatu Usman, Nnamdi Usifoh, Olasoji Fasogbon, Richard Franka, Margherita Ghiselli, Patrick Nguku, Ndadilnasiya Waziri, Eugene K Lam, Omotayo Bolu
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Introduction: the Growing Expertise in E-health Knowledge and Skills (GEEKS) program is an applied apprenticeship program that aims to improve informatics capacity at various levels of the national health system and create a sustainable informatics workforce. Nigeria adapted the GEEKS model in 2019 as a mechanism to strengthen data quality and use of routine immunization (RI) and vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) surveillance data among EPI staff. Since the start of the GEEKS-EPI program, there has not been a formal assessment conducted to measure the extent to which GEEKS-EPI has been able to build local informatics workforce capacity and strengthen RI and VPD surveillance (VPDS) data quality and use in Nigeria.