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Rapid virtual training and field deployment for COVID-19 surveillance officers: experiences from Ethiopia

Rapid scale-up of surveillance activities is the key to successful coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prevention and mitigation. Ethiopia did not have a sufficient number of active surveillance officers for the public health COVID-19 response. Training of surveillance officers was needed u...

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Autores principales: Wang, Shu-Hua, Yimer, Getnet, Bisesi, Michael, Lisawork, Leuel, Sugerman, David, Alayu, Mikias, Wossen, Mesfin, Abayneh, Sisay Alemayehu, Gallagher, Kayleigh, Endashaw, Tigist, Kubinson, Hannah, Kanter, Theresa, Gallagher, Kathleen, Gebreyes, Wondwossen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9695673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36451715
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.23.28787
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author Wang, Shu-Hua
Yimer, Getnet
Bisesi, Michael
Lisawork, Leuel
Sugerman, David
Alayu, Mikias
Wossen, Mesfin
Abayneh, Sisay Alemayehu
Gallagher, Kayleigh
Endashaw, Tigist
Kubinson, Hannah
Kanter, Theresa
Gallagher, Kathleen
Gebreyes, Wondwossen
author_facet Wang, Shu-Hua
Yimer, Getnet
Bisesi, Michael
Lisawork, Leuel
Sugerman, David
Alayu, Mikias
Wossen, Mesfin
Abayneh, Sisay Alemayehu
Gallagher, Kayleigh
Endashaw, Tigist
Kubinson, Hannah
Kanter, Theresa
Gallagher, Kathleen
Gebreyes, Wondwossen
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description Rapid scale-up of surveillance activities is the key to successful coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prevention and mitigation. Ethiopia did not have a sufficient number of active surveillance officers for the public health COVID-19 response. Training of surveillance officers was needed urgently to fill the gap in the workforce needed. Subject-matter experts from the United States and Ethiopia developed applicable training modules including background on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), contact investigation, and communications. The training modules were delivered live in real-time via web-based virtual presentation. Seventy-seven health surveillance officers were hired, trained, and deployed in two weeks to assist with surveillance activities in Ethiopia. Electronic capacity building is needed in order to improve Web-based training in resource-limited settings where internet access is limited or unreliable. Web-based synchronously delivered course was an effective platform for COVID-19 surveillance training. However, strengthening public and private information technology capacity, literacy, and internet availability will improve Web-based education platforms in resource-limited countries.
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spelling pubmed-96956732022-11-29 Rapid virtual training and field deployment for COVID-19 surveillance officers: experiences from Ethiopia Wang, Shu-Hua Yimer, Getnet Bisesi, Michael Lisawork, Leuel Sugerman, David Alayu, Mikias Wossen, Mesfin Abayneh, Sisay Alemayehu Gallagher, Kayleigh Endashaw, Tigist Kubinson, Hannah Kanter, Theresa Gallagher, Kathleen Gebreyes, Wondwossen Pan Afr Med J Program Evaluation Rapid scale-up of surveillance activities is the key to successful coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prevention and mitigation. Ethiopia did not have a sufficient number of active surveillance officers for the public health COVID-19 response. Training of surveillance officers was needed urgently to fill the gap in the workforce needed. Subject-matter experts from the United States and Ethiopia developed applicable training modules including background on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), contact investigation, and communications. The training modules were delivered live in real-time via web-based virtual presentation. Seventy-seven health surveillance officers were hired, trained, and deployed in two weeks to assist with surveillance activities in Ethiopia. Electronic capacity building is needed in order to improve Web-based training in resource-limited settings where internet access is limited or unreliable. Web-based synchronously delivered course was an effective platform for COVID-19 surveillance training. However, strengthening public and private information technology capacity, literacy, and internet availability will improve Web-based education platforms in resource-limited countries. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9695673/ /pubmed/36451715 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.43.23.28787 Text en Copyright: Shu-Hua Wang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yimer, Getnet
Bisesi, Michael
Lisawork, Leuel
Sugerman, David
Alayu, Mikias
Wossen, Mesfin
Abayneh, Sisay Alemayehu
Gallagher, Kayleigh
Endashaw, Tigist
Kubinson, Hannah
Kanter, Theresa
Gallagher, Kathleen
Gebreyes, Wondwossen
Rapid virtual training and field deployment for COVID-19 surveillance officers: experiences from Ethiopia
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title_short Rapid virtual training and field deployment for COVID-19 surveillance officers: experiences from Ethiopia
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