{"id":247317,"date":"2026-10-16T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-liberia-sierra-leone-push-joint-research-for-stronger-health-security-at-nphil-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:00:10","slug":"sierra-leone-liberia-sierra-leone-push-joint-research-for-stronger-health-security-at-nphil-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-liberia-sierra-leone-push-joint-research-for-stronger-health-security-at-nphil-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Liberia, Sierra Leone Push Joint Research for Stronger Health Security At NPHIL Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> October 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">MONROVIA &#8212; Liberia and Sierra Leone have renewed calls for stronger cross-border cooperation, joint scientific research and proactive disease surveillance to confront emerging public health threats, warning that infectious diseases recognize no national boundaries and require coordinated regional responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The calls dominated the opening of the fifth annual Emmet A. Dennis National Scientific Conference, organized by the National Public Health Institute of Liberia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610160059.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: October 15, 2026 MONROVIA &#8212; Liberia and Sierra Leone have renewed calls for stronger cross-border cooperation, joint scientific research and proactive disease surveillance to confront emerging public health threats, warning that infectious diseases recognize no national boundaries and require coordinated regional responses. The calls dominated the opening of the fifth annual Emmet A. Dennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,5739,5731,6984,6572,4712,257,22409,6354,6712,4586,6571,1135,254,7288],"class_list":["post-247317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conference","tag-health","tag-joint","tag-leone","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-nphil","tag-push","tag-research","tag-security","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stronger"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}