Attacks on Public Health Programmes: Global Incident Data by Country

Insecurity Insight tracks events affecting public health programs, including COVID-19 and Ebola vaccination campaigns, across multiple countries. This XLSX dataset aggregates agency-reported and open-source incident data published in the Attacks on Health Care News Brief through March 2026. It provides a specialized record of security threats categorized by country and disease program.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of security incidents targeting vaccination campaigns by country
• Identifying trends in attacks against COVID-19 and Ebola response programs
• Mapping geographic hotspots of health-related security events for risk assessment

Strengths

• Includes specific disease contexts such as COVID-19 and Ebola campaigns
• Aggregates data from both agency-specific and open-source reporting
• Categorized by country for comparative spatial analysis

Limitations

• Unknown record count and column structure
• Potential reporting bias inherent in open-source event monitoring
• Lack of specific metadata regarding the start date of the collection

Provenance

Source

Insecurity Insight

Collection Method

Aggregation of agency reports and open-source event monitoring

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Global