Table 1.

Categories and roles of resource persons involved in the implementation of Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS) in Ghana (2022).

Category of study participant	Role in SORMAS implementation
National public health officers—GHSa	Decision-making Advocacy (public and private sectors and international) Administration and resource management Overall national leadership
Software developers	Feature development Release testing Debugging Server management (data hosting)
Regional surveillance supervisors	Workforce training and supervision Collection of user issues Feature requests and specifications Advocacy (regional-level and district-level stakeholders)
Frontline field users (district surveillance, contact, and health information officers)	Case identification and reporting Case investigation Contact tracing Sample collection and transportation Data entry and transmission Peer-to-peer training
Laboratory supervisors	Laboratory user training Laboratory data management Issue reporting to surveillance supervisors Coordination between surveillance units and laboratories
Laboratory officers	Sample management Data entry and validation Sample testing and reporting
Public health experts (workforce training institutions)	Participation in stakeholder meetings Participation in training and field deployments Advising decision makers about overall implementation

^aGHS: Ghana Health Service.