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

Autor: Suzanne Elbon, Kariuki Njenga, Patrick Nguku, John Ngulefac, Yassa Ndjakani, Obinna Ositadimma Oleribe, Yescenia Espinosa, Nykiconia Preacely, Timothy J. Doyle, James Vaughan, Simon Antara, Lora Davis, Kenneth Johnson, Richard Luce, Peter Nsubuga, Faustine Ndugulile, Mufuta Tshimanga, Andrew Weathers, Christopher Tetteh, Michele Evering-Watley, Hiari Imara, Dieula Delissaint, Joseph Oundo, Chima Ohuabunwo, Ditu Kazambu, Fausta Mosha
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
Předmět:
medicine.medical_specialty
Economic growth
Time Factors
Epidemiology
media_common.quotation_subject
Field epidemiology
laboratory management
multi-disease surveillance and response systems
public health workforce capacity building
Epidemic Intelligence Service
ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS
Public health surveillance
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
medicine
Field epidemiology
Africa South of the Sahara
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lcsh:R5-920
Middle class
public health workforce capacity building
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
business.industry
Public health
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Research
fungi
food and beverages
lcsh:RA1-1270
multi-disease surveillance and response systems
General Medicine
medicine.disease
laboratory management
Laboratory Personnel
Health promotion
Needs assessment
Public Health
business
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Needs Assessment
Zdroj: The Pan African Medical Journal
The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 10, Iss 24 (2011)
Scopus-Elsevier
Pan African Medical Journal; Vol 10 (2011)
ISSN: 1937-8688
Popis: 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 competencybased 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.Key words: Field epidemiology, laboratory management, multi-disease surveillance and response systems, public health workforce capacity building
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