Table 1.

Roles and responsibilities of the ACoDD management team

Office	Roles and responsibilities
Director of AFENET	Provides overall strategic leadership of the ACoDD operations Leads advocacy Resource mobilisation
Director of Programmes	Overall technical oversight for the ACoDD operations Resource mobilisation Approval of budgets for operations
Secretariat Focal Person	Coordinates mobilisation of ACoDD across the network Provision of technical support and supervision of ACoDD teams during deployment Maintains a database (Epi-Track) of ACoDD across the network
Regional Technical Coordinators	Engaging ministries of health and partners to release ACoDD members for deployment Resource mobilisation to support operations Providing technical support and supervision of ACoDD teams during deployment Maintain a database for the ACoDD at (Epi-Track) at the regional level
Country ACoDD Focal Person	Receive requests for support from the ministries of health Planning and budgeting for deployment Mobilisation of ACoDD at country level Coordinating predeployment briefing and orientation Providing daily situation updates during an outbreak response Maintains a database for the ACoDD at (Epi-Track) at country level

ACoDD, AFENET Corps of Disease Detectives; AFENET, African Field Epidemiology Network.