• Mohammed Lamorde, Rodgers Ayebare, Daniel Bulwadda, Judith Nanyondo, Lydia Nakiire, Richard Walwema, Morgan Otita, Peter Mukiibi, Immaculate Nabukenya, Francis Kakooza, and Andrew Kambugu.
• Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. P. O. Box 22418, Kampala, Uganda.
• Afr Health Sci. 2022 Aug 1; 22 (Spec Issue): 80-84.

BackgroundOutbreaks are occurring at increasing frequency and they require multisectoral and multi-stakeholder involvement for optimal response. The Global Health Security Agenda is a framework that governments and other stakeholders can use to strengthen countries' capacities to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks but there are few examples of academic programs using this approach.MethodsThis is a narrative review of contributions of Makerere University through the Global Health Security Program at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI). Information was sourced from peer-reviewed publications and grey literature highlighting work done between 2017 - 2021.ResultsAligned to GHSA, IDI made contributions to strengthen national and subnational capacities for biosafety and biosecurity, sample collection and transportation, electronic disease surveillance, infection prevention and control, case management prior to COVID-19 that were subsequently used to support response efforts for COVID-19 in Uganda.ConclusionThe IDI Global Health Security program provides a model that can be used by institutions to deliberately develop capacities relevant to outbreak preparedness and response.© 2022 Lamorde M et al.

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