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{"title":"The need to strengthen laboratory leadership, systems, and networks to enhance outbreak detection and resilience in Africa: proceedings of a regional workshop.","authors":"Harris Onywera, Richard Njouom, Dorcas Waruguru Wanjohi, Jackson Peter Claver Mushumbusi, Abdou Moindze, Abebaw Kebede, Alisen Ayitewala, Ambele Eliah Mwafulango, Anne von Gottberg, Collins Kipngetich Tanui, Euniverse Shikaseba, Fahima Moosa, Felix Koukouikila-Koussounda, Ibrehima Guindo, Isaac Ssewanyana, Joseph Bitilinyu-Bangoh, Joseph Nyandwi, Kedibone Maria Ndlangisa, Klèma Marcel Koné, Mignon du Plessis, Mirriam Ethel Nyenje, Moussa M Diagne, Natalie T Mayet, Nebiyu Dereje, Noumou Yakhouba Keita, Ouindgueta Juste Isidore Bonkoungou, Placide Mbala, Prince Akil-Bandali, René Ghislain Essomba, Roch Fabien Niama, Roma Chilengi, Sarah Mwangi, Seydou Barro, Sikhulile Moyo, Susan N Nabadda, Talkmore Maruta, Tonny Muyigi, Valentina J Ngo Bitoungui, Umar Ahmad, Vindana Chibabhai, Winnie Kwamboka Mokaya, Youssouf Tadjidine, Sofonias K Tessema, Jean Kaseya, Yenew Kebede Tebeje","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00382-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00382-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Africa bears a disproportionate burden of infectious disease outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance, compounded by weaknesses in public health laboratory systems. In line with its mandate to safeguard public health, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) supports its Member States in strengthening public health laboratory capacity. However, gaps in laboratory leadership continue to threaten the resilience and sustainability of these systems. To address this need, Africa CDC convened a Laboratory Leadership Workshop under the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) - DETECT Project from 27-29 August 2025 in Mombasa, Kenya. The meeting brought together 24 heads of public health and reference laboratories and senior technical experts from 15 Member States. Combining expert presentations, country case studies, and roundtable discussions, participants examined system-level challenges affecting laboratory performance. Workshop proceedings were synthesized according to the predefined thematic areas that guided the workshop discussions, drawing on rapporteurs' reports and validated through participant review. Key issues included overreliance on external funding, fragile procurement and supply chains, limited equipment servicing, weak sample referral networks, fragmented data systems, and inadequate contingency planning. Comparative country experiences showed that stronger domestic financing and institutionalized leadership structures were linked to greater operational continuity. Emerging innovations such as hybrid decentralization of diagnostic services and integrated sample referral networks were discussed, with success contingent on strengthened leadership in strategic planning, resource mobilization, and cross-sector coordination. The workshop identified cross-cutting priorities, including financial independence, sustainable equipment servicing, quality management, One Health-aligned digital interoperability, and leadership networks for building resilient systems. The meeting concluded that beyond infrastructure, Africa's epidemic preparedness depends on empowered and committed leaders capable of overcoming challenges to steer resilient and sustainable laboratory systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13248234/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148204046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abstracts from the Globesync Community Research and Sustainability 2025 (GlobeCoReS 2025).","authors":"","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00378-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-026-00378-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148154953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bauru International Craniofacial Symposium: Comprehensive Care, Policy and Advocacy Proceedings.","authors":"","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00374-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00374-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13191907/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147980369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Proceedings from the 2025 Midwest Pediatric Device Consortium showcase featuring software as a medical device.","authors":"Nina Echelmeyer, McKay Noll, Animesh Tandon, David M Eckmann, Cory N Criss","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00379-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00379-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On July 9, 2025, the Midwest Pediatric Device Consortium hosted its second showcase at the MidTown Collaboration Center in Cleveland, OH. This meeting convened clinicians, engineers, regulators, entrepreneurs, and policy stakeholders to discuss the challenges and opportunities in pediatric medical device development. The program included expert panel discussions addressing value demonstration in healthcare, data-driven post market surveillance, cybersecurity risk and data protection, artificial intelligence, clinical algorithms, and pediatric-specific considerations. This culminated in a pitch competition focused on Software as a Medical Device. This manuscript provides a descriptive summary of the meeting proceedings and synthesizes themes that emerged from panel discussions. The themes underscored the persistent structural barriers in pediatric device development, including alignment of value across stakeholders, limitations of real-world evidence infrastructure, data security challenges, and complexities in artificial intelligence driven technologies. These proceedings are intended to inform clinicians, innovators, and policymakers engaged in pediatric medical device development rather than serve as a formal program evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13159207/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147866762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Proceedings from the CIH^LMU 2025 symposium: the role of artificial intelligence in health systems strengthening to achieve One Health.","authors":"Martha Chipinduro, Patrícia Ramgi, Julieth Lalashowi, Lalem Belay, Surafel Worku Megersa, Temesgen Chala, Dawit Ejigu, Eyob Abera, Shambhunath Mohan, Michael Montgomery, Lidia Veliaminova, Given Chiumya, Adea Borova, Vahuka Valiyakath, Guenter Froeschl","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00377-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00377-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing, and AI tools are being integrated into many aspects of daily life, including medical care and public health. The full extent to which AI related tools can be implemented in order to strengthen health systems are a matter of continued debate. The Center for International Health at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität's (CIH^LMU) 2025 student-led symposium on \"The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Health Systems Strengthening to Achieve One Health\" deliberated on the transformative potential of AI in global health. The primary focus of the symposium was to explore how AI can be leveraged to strengthen health systems. Presentations were delivered by health experts on AI from Africa and Europe. The event provided a platform for experts and students to discuss how AI can be harnessed to improve healthcare delivery, disease surveillance, and research. Discussions resonated around AI health-related research, responsible AI integration, advocacy for AI-related policies, and challenges associated with AI integration in health, such as data privacy and the need for robust governance frameworks. Emphasis was placed on the importance of context-specific implementation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and robust governance to ensure AI's responsible integration into One Health approaches. The symposium concluded that AI holds immense promise to strengthen health systems by improving efficiency, equity, and responsiveness. However, ethical, infrastructural, and regulatory challenges must be addressed, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13126755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147761597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"West African Policy Dialogue-impulse for better data: progress towards better analytics and better decisions.","authors":"Gideon Kwarteng Acheampong, Fortress Yayra Aku, John Amuasi, Sylvia Annang, Silvia Argimon, Ernest Konadu Asiedu, Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney, Reinhard Busse, Benjamin Emikpe, Esteban Garcia-Gallo, Jonathan Mawutor Gmanyami, Anne Meierkord, Sam Kofi Newton, Bernard Nkrumah, Benjamin Nyakutsey, Daniel Opoku, Paul Elvis Onyango Ouma, Michael Owusu, Wilm Quentin","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00362-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00362-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a context of increasing efforts towards the establishment of a Regional Health Data Hub for the African Region, the 2024 West African Policy Dialogue brought together researchers and policymakers from seven West African countries in a two-day meeting in Aburi, Ghana. This report provides a high-level summary of the discussions at the meeting. The forum emphasized that the use of poor, incomplete, or inaccurate data will have negative consequences, regardless of the sophistication of the analytic tools used. New technologies have emerged that can support the generation and effective use of data. Yet, governments in West-Africa struggle to maximize the benefits of these technologies, including genomic surveillance, real-time data generation, and supranational data integration and exchange. Policies are needed that support and regulate new technologies and contribute to greater capabilities for better data.</p>","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13107572/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147761573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meeting abstracts of the NursID Spring School 2025.","authors":"","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00371-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00371-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13097535/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147728324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: Proceedings of the 3rd edition of the International e-Health Forum 2025.","authors":"","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00376-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00376-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13085401/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147688125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abstracts from EHRCON25-openEHR International Conference 2025.","authors":"","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00367-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00367-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 Suppl 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13063939/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147637796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: Respiratory virus surveillance in the post-pandemic era: challenges and opportunities for dashboard-based public health action.","authors":"Adrienne Halley, Caroline Schneeberger, Foekje F Stelma, Aby Ba Diallo, Ombeline Jollivet, Bronke Boudewijns, Marie-Noëlle Billard, Julika Frome, Jean-Sebastien Casalegno, Katharina B Lauer, Cédric Mahé, Erica Dueger, Marco Del Riccio, Alexandre Descamps, Anna Maisa, Siddhivinayak Hirve, Saverio Caini, Marta C Nunes","doi":"10.1186/s12919-026-00372-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12919-026-00372-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9046,"journal":{"name":"BMC Proceedings","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13045119/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147608106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}