Capacity building at points of entry during COVID-19 pandemic: harmonising training curriculum for Economic Community of West African States.

Autor:	Usman AB; African Field Epidemiology Network Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria ausman@afenet.net., Lokossou VK; ECOWAS Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.; West African Health Organisation, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso., Sawadogo K; Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA., Ward S; Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA., Umeokonkwo CD; Department of Community Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria.; African Field Epidemiology Network, Moronvia, Liberia., Sawadogo B; African Field Epidemiology Network, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso., Hanlon C; Guide House Consulting, Atlanta, Georgia., Kayita G; African Field Epidemiology Network, Kampala, Uganda., Balogun MS; African Field Epidemiology Network Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria., Antara S; African Field Epidemiology Network, Kampala, Uganda., Merrill R; Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA., Nguku PM; African Field Epidemiology Network Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria., Issiaka S; West African Health Organisation, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso., Jc Aïssi MA; West African Health Organisation, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	BMJ global health [BMJ Glob Health] 2023 Jan; Vol. 8 (1).
DOI:	10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010892
Abstrakt:	This paper describes the process for developing, validating and disseminating through a train-the-trainer (TOT) event a standardised curriculum for public health capacity building for points of entry (POE) staff across the 15-member state Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that reflects both international standards and national guidelines.A five-phase process was used in developing the curriculum: phase (1) assessment of existing materials developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Africa CDC and the West African Economic and Monetary Union, (2) design of retained and new, harmonised content, (3) validation by the national leadership to produce final content, (4) implementation of the harmonised curriculum during a regional TOT, and (5) evaluation of the curriculum.Of the nine modules assessed in English and French, the technical team agreed to retain six harmonised modules providing materials for 10 days of intensive training. Following the TOT, most participants (n=28/30, 93.3%) indicated that the International Health Regulations and emergency management modules were relevant to their work and 96.7% (n=29/30) reported that the training should be cascaded to POE staff in their countries.The ECOWAS harmonised POE curriculum provides a set of training materials and expectations for national port health and POE staff to use across the region. This initiative contributes to reducing the effort required by countries to identify emergency preparedness and response capacity-building tools for border health systems in the Member States in a highly connected region. Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)
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