Role and effectiveness of telephone hotlines in outbreak response in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Noah T. Fongwen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Noah.Fongwen@lshtm.ac.uk, FongwenN@africa-union.org

  Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Division of Laboratory Systems and Networks, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-0663

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• Almighty Nchafack,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Hana Rohan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5327-6348

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• Jason J. Ong,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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• Joseph D. Tucker,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, University of North Carolina Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Nadine Beckmann,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Gwenda Hughes,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Rosanna W. Peeling

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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