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    Compiled Body of Work in Field Epidemiology Training.
    (Addis Abeba Universty, 2015-05) Abdifatah Tahir; Alemayehu Bekele
    Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) is a two years in-service training program adapted from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program and curriculum. The program is designed to assist the Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureaus in strengthening health systems preparedness and response against major public health problems, more specifically epidemic prone diseases by creating competent health professionals through basic class room as well as on-the-Job mentorship and training.This compiled body of works has nine main sections which all of them were done during the residency schedule of the program. This include outbreak investigation, surveillance data analysis, evaluation of the surveillance system, health profile report, writing of finalized scientific manuscript for peer review journals, abstracts submitted to scientific conferences, summary of disaster situation visited/risk assessment writing protocol/proposal of epidemiologic research project and other additional works.The document is organized in to nine chapters; Chapter one deals with outbreak investigation. there were two outbreak investigations conducted:; one was measles outbreak investigation conducted in Hamaro woreda of Fik Zone,Ethio-Somali Region, with a follow up case control study. The second outbreak investigation was a case series study conducted in polio disease in the Ethio-Somali Region, Warder Zone of Bookh and Geladin Woreda. Chapter Two explains about Measles case based disease surveillance data review and analysis which was conducted at regional level. The ten year data, from 2004-2013, was analyzed in the Region by place, person and time. Chapter three describes the AFP and measles surveillance system evaluation conducted in Shabeele Zone, Ethio-Somali Region. In this chapter, purpose and objective of surveillance system, progress towards the objective and also attributes of the surveillance system were discussed.