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- Title
Building Global Epidemiology and Response Capacity with Field Epidemiology Training Programs.
- Authors
Jones, Donna S.; Dicker, Richard C.; Fontaine, Robert E.; Boore, Amy L.; Omolo, Jared O.; Ashgar, Rana J.; Baggett, Henry C.
- Abstract
More than ever, competent field epidemiologists are needed worldwide. As known, new, and resurgent communicable diseases increase their global impact, the International Health Regulations and the Global Health Security Agenda call for sufficient field epidemiologic capacity in every country to rapidly detect, respond to, and contain public health emergencies, thereby ensuring global health security. To build this capacity, for >35 years the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has worked with countries around the globe to develop Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs). FETP trainees conduct surveillance activities and outbreak investigations in service to ministry of health programs to prevent and control infectious diseases of global health importance such as polio, cholera, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and emerging zoonotic infectious diseases. FETP graduates often rise to positions of leadership to direct such programs. By training competent epidemiologists to manage public health events locally and support public health systems nationally, health security is enhanced globally.
- Subjects
EPIDEMIOLOGISTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY education; WORLD health; PUBLIC health surveillance; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); TRAINING
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017, Vol 23, pS158
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2313.170509