Resources

Impact Brief: Ebola Biosafety Intervention

This brief describes efforts to increase the use of biosafety materials and biosafety protocols at a wild meat market in Sierra Leone. A One Health-Design Research and Mentorship (OH-DReaM) working group developed protocols to improve the enforcement of personal protective equipment (PPE) use, women working in the market were trained on the use of PPE and provided with PPE, and a handwashing station was installed at the market.

Sierra Leone Lassa Fever Tabletop Simulation Exercise

This video describes a community-level simulation exercise that the STOP Spillover Sierra Leone Country Team held to assess community readiness, structural functionality, and the ability to respond to a potential Lassa fever outbreak in a high-risk community in Kenema District.

Impact Brief: Rodent Trapping

This brief summarizes a study to better understand Lassa virus spillover risks in high-risk interfaces in rural forest-edge communities in southeastern Sierra Leone and to identify ways to reduce the risk of Lassa virus spillover in the communities.

Impact Brief: Zoonotic Disease Outbreak Risk Management Simulation Exercise

This report summarizes a tabletop simulation exercise that STOP Spillover Sierra Leone staff and One Health partners conducted to test interface-level preparedness and response systems to a potential Lassa fever outbreak in a high-risk community in Kenema District in Sierra Leone.

STOP Spillover Sierra Leone Spillover Ecosystem Report

This report is a comprehensive desktop review of what is known about zoonotic viral spillover, amplification, and spread in Sierra Leone. The review focuses on the complex interactions between society, the economy, the environment, and the transmission of zoonotic diseases. It was developed to inform the design and implementation of STOP Spillover project interventions in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone Participatory Planning Using Outcome Mapping: Summary Report

Through outcome mapping (OM), a structured participatory tool that uses a collaborative context-specific process, spillover ecosystem stakeholders (both traditional and non-traditional) are empowered to identify and reduce zoonotic spillover risks at human-animal-environment interfaces and develop an outcome-oriented project action plan. This report outlines the details of the OM workshop activities in Sierra Leone.