Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) Compiled Body of Works in Field Epidemiology
Creators: name: Wondmnew, Taddie
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) is 8 years competency based master's program adapted from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Program. The School of Public Health/Addis Ababa University, the Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia/Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), and CDC Ethiopia are running the Program jointly former your years. After all the program extended their coverage to other 8 university to increase field epidemiologist for the country. The field work comprises of 75% of the Program which is called residency; learning by working in public health emergency and other health related priority issues. The Program is designed to assist the Ministry of Health in building or strengthening health systems by recruiting promising health workers and building their competencies through on-the-job mentorship and training. Ethiopia adopted the Field Epidemiology Training Program to help improve leadership within Public Health Emergency Management. The Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) provides residents a Master of Public Health Degree in Field Epidemiology after they complete two years of supervised work in applied or Field Epidemiology. This compiled body of works has 10 main sections or chapters accomplished during the residency time of the Program. The first 7 sections are expected outputs during the residency time; comprising of outbreak investigation, surveillance data analysis, evaluation of the surveillance system, health profile description report, writing of finalized scientific manuscript for peer review journals, abstracts submitted to scientific conferences, summary of disaster situation visited/risk assessment and other additional works. The overall outputs of the two years Field Residency Program will be presented in a summarized way; in the outbreak investigations chapter or section, one unmatched case control outbreak investigation of Pertussis in Sayient Woreda, North west part of Ethiopia, January 2019 was documented. Health profile description report was done in Fogera district in March 2018 and Surveillance system evaluation was also done in Fogera and Dera Districts, Amhara Region, in March 2018. One finalized scientific manuscript was prepared for peer reviewed journal. A report on need assessment (risk assessment) on prioritized Districts of Amhara Regional State was also conducted with other XIII team members from food security center, WHO, UNICEF, ADDPS and Other Regional Bureau. Under other additional works/outputs section (last chapter) activities like provision of training for public health emergency management (PHEM) officers working at different levels (regional to health facility level) in the Amhara Regional Health Bureau were also undertaken. Other activities we developed of Rabies and Anthrax case based and line list and weekly Bulletin, update, summary report of Pertussis outbreak, prepared and present Anthrax outbreak investigation report on Workshops.