The Nigeria Governors’ Forum, in collaboration with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Bank and Resolve to Save Lives Nigeria, has launched a health security scorecard to strengthen monitoring of states’ preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies.
The scorecard was unveiled on Wednesday during a health security scorecard validation workshop in Abuja, where health experts and development partners described the initiative as a critical tool for assessing gaps in state-level health security systems and driving evidence-based interventions.
Speaking at the workshop on Wednesday, the Executive Director, Programme Partnership at the NGF Secretariat, Dr Ahmad Abdulwahab, said the initiative was designed to establish a unified framework for evaluating health security governance across the 36 states.
“At the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat, we firmly believe that true health security is built from the ground up.
“While national frameworks provide the architecture, subnational execution and accountability are the bedrock upon which epidemic preparedness, detection and response must rest,” he said.
