Harnessing traditional healers role in strengthening Africa’s public health response: A case study of Mpox outbreak

• Augustus Osborne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Development, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Umaru Sesay ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sesayumaru4@gmail.com

  Affiliations Sierra Leone Field Epidemiology Training Program, National Public Health Agency, Freetown, Sierra Leone, African Field Epidemiology Network, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6040-8660

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• Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sierra Leone Field Epidemiology Training Program, National Public Health Agency, Freetown, Sierra Leone, African Field Epidemiology Network, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Peter Bai James

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health, National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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