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Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects

As of 2010 sub-Saharan Africa had approximately 865 million inhabitants living with numerous public health challenges. Several public health initiatives [e.g., the United States (US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the US President's Malaria Initiative] have been very succes...

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Autores principales: Nsubuga, Peter, Johnson, Kenneth, Tetteh, Christopher, Oundo, Joseph, Weathers, Andrew, Vaughan, James, Elbon, Suzanne, Tshimanga, Mufuta, Ndugulile, Faustine, Ohuabunwo, Chima, Evering-Watley, Michele, Mosha, Fausta, Oleribe, Obinna, Nguku, Patrick, Davis, Lora, Preacely, Nykiconia, Luce, Richard, Antara, Simon, Imara, Hiari, Ndjakani, Yassa, Doyle, Timothy, Espinosa, Yescenia, Kazambu, Ditu, Delissaint, Dieula, Ngulefac, John, Njenga, Kariuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3224071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22187606
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author Nsubuga, Peter
Johnson, Kenneth
Tetteh, Christopher
Oundo, Joseph
Weathers, Andrew
Vaughan, James
Elbon, Suzanne
Tshimanga, Mufuta
Ndugulile, Faustine
Ohuabunwo, Chima
Evering-Watley, Michele
Mosha, Fausta
Oleribe, Obinna
Nguku, Patrick
Davis, Lora
Preacely, Nykiconia
Luce, Richard
Antara, Simon
Imara, Hiari
Ndjakani, Yassa
Doyle, Timothy
Espinosa, Yescenia
Kazambu, Ditu
Delissaint, Dieula
Ngulefac, John
Njenga, Kariuki
author_facet Nsubuga, Peter
Johnson, Kenneth
Tetteh, Christopher
Oundo, Joseph
Weathers, Andrew
Vaughan, James
Elbon, Suzanne
Tshimanga, Mufuta
Ndugulile, Faustine
Ohuabunwo, Chima
Evering-Watley, Michele
Mosha, Fausta
Oleribe, Obinna
Nguku, Patrick
Davis, Lora
Preacely, Nykiconia
Luce, Richard
Antara, Simon
Imara, Hiari
Ndjakani, Yassa
Doyle, Timothy
Espinosa, Yescenia
Kazambu, Ditu
Delissaint, Dieula
Ngulefac, John
Njenga, Kariuki
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description As of 2010 sub-Saharan Africa had approximately 865 million inhabitants living with numerous public health challenges. Several public health initiatives [e.g., the United States (US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the US President's Malaria Initiative] have been very successful at reducing mortality from priority diseases. A competently trained public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems is necessary to build upon and sustain these successes and to address other public health problems. Sub-Saharan Africa appears to have weathered the recent global economic downturn remarkably well and its increasing middle class may soon demand stronger public health systems to protect communities. The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been the backbone of public health surveillance and response in the US during its 60 years of existence. EIS has been adapted internationally to create the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) in several countries. In the 1990s CDC and the Rockefeller Foundation collaborated with the Uganda and Zimbabwe ministries of health and local universities to create 2-year Public Health Schools Without Walls (PHSWOWs) which were based on the FETP model. In 2004 the FETP model was further adapted to create the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) in Kenya to conduct joint competency-based training for field epidemiologists and public health laboratory scientists providing a master's degree to participants upon completion. The FELTP model has been implemented in several additional countries in sub-Saharan Africa. By the end of 2010 these 10 FELTPs and two PHSWOWs covered 613 million of the 865 million people in sub-Saharan Africa and had enrolled 743 public health professionals. We describe the process that we used to develop 10 FELTPs covering 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010 as a strategy to develop a locally trained public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems.
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spelling pubmed-32240712011-12-20 Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects Nsubuga, Peter Johnson, Kenneth Tetteh, Christopher Oundo, Joseph Weathers, Andrew Vaughan, James Elbon, Suzanne Tshimanga, Mufuta Ndugulile, Faustine Ohuabunwo, Chima Evering-Watley, Michele Mosha, Fausta Oleribe, Obinna Nguku, Patrick Davis, Lora Preacely, Nykiconia Luce, Richard Antara, Simon Imara, Hiari Ndjakani, Yassa Doyle, Timothy Espinosa, Yescenia Kazambu, Ditu Delissaint, Dieula Ngulefac, John Njenga, Kariuki Pan Afr Med J Research As of 2010 sub-Saharan Africa had approximately 865 million inhabitants living with numerous public health challenges. Several public health initiatives [e.g., the United States (US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the US President's Malaria Initiative] have been very successful at reducing mortality from priority diseases. A competently trained public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems is necessary to build upon and sustain these successes and to address other public health problems. Sub-Saharan Africa appears to have weathered the recent global economic downturn remarkably well and its increasing middle class may soon demand stronger public health systems to protect communities. The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been the backbone of public health surveillance and response in the US during its 60 years of existence. EIS has been adapted internationally to create the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) in several countries. In the 1990s CDC and the Rockefeller Foundation collaborated with the Uganda and Zimbabwe ministries of health and local universities to create 2-year Public Health Schools Without Walls (PHSWOWs) which were based on the FETP model. In 2004 the FETP model was further adapted to create the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP) in Kenya to conduct joint competency-based training for field epidemiologists and public health laboratory scientists providing a master's degree to participants upon completion. The FELTP model has been implemented in several additional countries in sub-Saharan Africa. By the end of 2010 these 10 FELTPs and two PHSWOWs covered 613 million of the 865 million people in sub-Saharan Africa and had enrolled 743 public health professionals. We describe the process that we used to develop 10 FELTPs covering 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010 as a strategy to develop a locally trained public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2011-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3224071/ /pubmed/22187606 Text en © Peter Nsubuga et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nsubuga, Peter
Johnson, Kenneth
Tetteh, Christopher
Oundo, Joseph
Weathers, Andrew
Vaughan, James
Elbon, Suzanne
Tshimanga, Mufuta
Ndugulile, Faustine
Ohuabunwo, Chima
Evering-Watley, Michele
Mosha, Fausta
Oleribe, Obinna
Nguku, Patrick
Davis, Lora
Preacely, Nykiconia
Luce, Richard
Antara, Simon
Imara, Hiari
Ndjakani, Yassa
Doyle, Timothy
Espinosa, Yescenia
Kazambu, Ditu
Delissaint, Dieula
Ngulefac, John
Njenga, Kariuki
Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects
title Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects
title_full Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects
title_fullStr Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects
title_full_unstemmed Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects
title_short Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programs in sub-Saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects
title_sort field epidemiology and laboratory training programs in sub-saharan africa from 2004 to 2010: need, the process, and prospects
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3224071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22187606
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