CDC Around the World This Week: Field Epidemiology Training Program

CDC Around the World This Week: Field Epidemiology Training Program

IN THIS MESSAGE:	PHOTO OF THE WEEK Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) help reduce the shortage of trained field epidemiologists able to prevent, detect, and respond to health threats and improve global health security. View full-sized photo
Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Field Epidemiology Training
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Blog of the Week VOICES FROM THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: FELTP RESIDENTS REMAIN COMMITTED TO STRENGTHENING DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AND OUTBREAK RESPONSE The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa, bordered by Chad in the north, Sudan in the northeast, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south and Cameroon in the west. CAR is one of the world’s least developed nations and has experienced several periods of political instability, as well as deadly attacks and violence by rebels that have forced nearly 1 million people from their homes in search of refuge. With so many civilians fleeing to refugee camps in the capital, Bangui, and the provinces, there is an increased need to strengthen disease surveillance and response…read blog Infographic of the Week TRAINING EPIDEMIOLOGISTS AROUND THE WORLD View full-sized infographic Video of the Week FIELD TRAINING PROGRAMS SAVE LIVES CDC works with Ministries of Health and other partners to strengthen public health systems and build workforce capacity globally. Through its flagship FETPs, hundreds of residents continue to receive classroom-based instruction and hands-on mentored trainings in surveillance, outbreak investigation, laboratory management program evaluation and other aspects of epidemiology research…watch video Story of the Week SAVING LIVES AND PROTECTING PEOPLE IN NIGERIA As a recent graduate of Kenya’s Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP), Dr. Nguku was sent to Nigeria when the first human case of influenza A H5N1 virus was reported in Africa in 2006. In Nigeria, he was part of a team that helped track down the cause of the outbreak. The joint efforts by the human and animal health ministries of Nigeria in combating influenza A H5N1 led to the realization that closer collaborations were required in zoonotic diseases control, thereby leading to among other things, creation of Nigeria's own FELTP program…read story

In the News

South Africa ‘has already entered the post-antibiotic era’ Business Day, June 5, 2014 Hypertension: an urgent need for global control and prevention The Lancet, May 31, 2014 Worried about MERS? Worry about polio instead Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2014 Progress continues in fight against AIDS Houston Chronicle, May 12, 2014

On the Calendar

June 19: World Sickle Cell Awareness Day June 20: World Refugee Day