Table 1.

Outbreak Costing Tool individual cost items for each non-labor cost category.

Office materials and equipment	Travel and transport	Communication	Laboratory support	Medical countermeasures	Consultancies
Stationeries	Fuel costs	Airtime for national radio broadcasts	Personal protective equipment	Drugs for prevention: Vaccines	Database development
Printing/copies	Rented or hired vehicles	Airtime for national television broadcasts	Syringes	Antibiotic prophylaxis	Database management
Rented building space	Parking	Advertisements in national newspapers	Pipettes	Quarantine	Data collection
Rented equipment	Purchased vehicles	Airtime for local radio broadcasts	Reagents	Closing of food premises	Data analyses
Rented furniture	Maintenance and repair costs	Airtime for local television broadcasts	Shipment of materials	Animal culls	Field epidemiology
Internet	Lodging	Advertisements in local newspapers	Specimen collection	Disposal or decontamination of contaminated items	Biology/entomology
Cellular data	Per diem expenses (e.g., food)	Wall poster advertisements	Specimen transport	Water chlorination	Training
Speciality software	Airfare for deployed personnel	T-shirts to raise outbreak awareness	Specimen processing	Impregnated bed nets	Risk communication and media trainings
Mobile phones	Taxi and bus fares		Identification of pathogens		Development of case management guidelines for safety hazards (e.g., zoonotic, food safety)
Solar panels to charge phones and computers			Data management
Global Positioning System devices			Data analysis and results
Mobile hotspots			Waste management