Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria (Dr Shuaib); The University of Alabama at Birmingham (Dr Musa); WHO, Abuja, Nigeria (Drs Musa, Mkanda, and Banda); UNICEF, Nigeria, Abuja (Ms Nyanti, Mr Corkum, and Dr Dieng); Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Abuja (Dr Muhammad); International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland (Dr Mahoney); UNICEF, Nigeria, Abuja (Mr Corkum); University of Alabama School of Public Health, Birmingham (Mr Durojaiye); CDC, NEOC (Mr Nganda); CORE Group Partners Project (Dr Sani); and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Dr Pate).
Correspondence: Faisal M. Shuaib, MD, DrPH, MPH, National Polio Emergency Operation Center, Nigeria Ministry of Health, Abuja 00000, Nigeria ([email protected]).
The authors acknowledge the able leadership provided by Nigeria's former Honorable Minister of Health Prof C. O. Onyebuchi Chukwu, the Director of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Prof Abdulsalami Nasidi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health Dr Jide Idris, and Rivers State Commissioner of Health Dr Sampson Parker. Much appreciation to Dr Olukayode Oguntimehin, Dr Ismail A. Abdus-salam, Dr Nnanna Onyekwere, Dr Oni Idigbe, Prof Sunday Omilabu, Mr Charles Nzuki, and all EEOC Strategy Group members, as well as the Response Team leads and members at the Lagos and Port Harcourt EEOCs.The authors also acknowledge the support of the BMGF, especially the critical roles played by Michael Galway and Jay Wenger in the early days of the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria.The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
