1 Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. alan@sanbi.ac.za.
2 South African National Bioinformatics Institute, SAMRC Bioinformatics Unit, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. alan@sanbi.ac.za.
3 Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
4 South African National Bioinformatics Institute, SAMRC Bioinformatics Unit, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
5 Nomazangwa Consulting, Haartbeesport, South Africa.
6 KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme/KEMRI-CGMR-C, Kilifi, Kenya.
7 Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
8 National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
9 College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
10 African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.
11 Institut Pasteur of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
12 Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
13 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya.
14 Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
15 WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
16 African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
17 Regional Emergency Hub, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
18 West African Health Organization, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
19 Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. sofoniast@africa-union.org.
High-income countries have a wealth of genomics expertise that can be rapidly activated to deal with disease threats. African countries should invest in a federated data-management system for genomics epidemiology to deal with such threats better.