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Article History

Received: 24 July 2023

Accepted: 6 February 2024

First Online: 27 February 2024

Declarations

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: This project consists of two parts.1- The first part was conducted through an online survey; this research was categorized as exempt research. (Exempt research category means that the research is mainly no more than “minimal risk” and that you are not going to collect/record identifiable information (name, phone number, e-mail address, signature, etc.) from the research participants.Ethical approval: Ref. (ERC-822-2-2022) was obtained from the Health Research Governance Department of the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar.2- The second part of the research involved analyzing aggregated, deidentified secondary data on the number and type of communicable disease notifications received by the Ministry of Public Health.This research part does not involve any form of human subject involvement or personal data collection.As per the Health Research Governance Department of the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar regulations, this project does not require ethical clearance (for example, IRB approval and exempt research certificate). and the requirement for informed consent was exempted by the Ministry of Public Health of Qatar, which granted the research team restricted access to a certain dataset from medical records. This dataset comprised de-identified data for research purposes and was used in a fully anonymized form.All the study procedures were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.