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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Field epidemiology and laboratory training programs in sub-saharan Africa from 2004 to 2010: Need, the process, and prospects
Pan African Medical Journal, Volume 10, Year 2011
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As of 2010 sub-Saharan Africa had approximately 865 million inhabitants living with numerous public health challenges. Several spublic 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 wee 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. © Peter Nsubuga et al.
Authors & Co-Authors
Nsubuga, Peter
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Johnson, Kenneth
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tetteh, Christopher
Unknown Affiliation
Tshimanga, Mufuta T.
Unknown Affiliation
Ndugulile, Faustine
Unknown Affiliation
Ohuabunwo, Chima J.
Unknown Affiliation
Mosha, Fausta Shakiwa
Unknown Affiliation
Oleribe, Obinna Ositadimma
Unknown Affiliation
Nguku, Patrick Mboya
Unknown Affiliation
Davis, Lora Baker
Unknown Affiliation
Luce, Richard Ray
Unknown Affiliation
Antara, Simon Nyovuu Ra
Unknown Affiliation
Ndjakani, Yassa D.
Unknown Affiliation
Doyle, Timothy J.
Unknown Affiliation
Kazambu, Ditu
Unknown Affiliation
Delissaint, Dieula
Unknown Affiliation
Ngulefac, John
United States, Atlanta
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Njenga, Kariuki M.
Unknown Affiliation
Statistics
Citations: 25
Authors: 18
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.4314/pamj.v10i0.72235
ISSN:
19378688
Research Areas
Infectious Diseases
Study Locations
Kenya
Uganda
Zimbabwe