MERIT Objectives
The Meningitis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT) project is a joint effort of the World Health Organization (WHO) and collaborators to utilize more effectively existing knowledge of the epidemiology of meningoccal meningitis to
MERIT organization
MERIT is managed by an institutional steering committee chaired by the WHO. The actions of the steering committee are defined by its Terms of Reference, which may be amended at any time by the steering committee. Steering committee meetings are open. |
MERIT highlights
The second MERIT Science Meeting took place in December 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meeting focused on the development of decision support tools to prediction meningitis epidemics. There was a one-day capacity building workshop immediately following the MERIT meeting, which focused on:
An outcome of this meeting was the creation of MERIT-Ethiopia. Led by the Federal Ministry of Health through the Ethiopian Climate and Health Working Group, they will focus on an intensive research project:
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