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    Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) Compiled Body of Works in Field Epidemiology
    (Addis Ababa University, 2019-06) Mengistu, Roman; Bekele, Alemayehu( PHD); Yelma, Mengistu( PHD Fellow)
    The Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) is an in-service training program in field epidemiology adapted from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program. The goal of the EFETP is to strengthen the Ethiopian Public Health Emergency Management system by: Improving public health event detection and response; creating a robust disease surveillance system; building capacity in field epidemiology and public Health; Enhancing evidence-based decision making for public health practice; and Reducing morbidity and mortality associated with priority diseases. Residents are expected to prepare and submit this body of work which will be assessed and evaluated by examiners to make sure that resident has acquired the expected level of competencies during his/her residency. Therefore, this body of work summarizes the required field residency ‘s outputs accomplished at field base during two years’ residencies. It has Nine chapters namely Outbreak Investigation, Surveillance Data Analysis Report, Evaluation of the Surveillance System, Health Profile Summary Report, Scientific Manuscript for peer review journals, Abstract, Protocol/Proposal of Epidemiologic Research Project, Public Health Emergency Management Weekly Bulletin and a Summary of Disaster Situation Visited/Risk Assessment. Accordingly, the document is organized to nine chapters. The first chapter includes two outbreak investigations and response. One of the investigations was conducted in Gotera refugee Shelter on scabies Outbreak using case control study design and the other Investigation was descriptive study on human exposure to Dog bite in woreda ten of Yeka sub-city Addis Ababa City administration, 2019. The second chapter contains five years (2013 to 2017) Surveillance Data Analysis of Typhoid Fever in Bole sub city, Addis Ababa City administration. Chapter Three describes Measles Surveillance System Evaluation in Bole sub city. Chapter four contains Health Profile Description of woreda nine, Bole sub city, Addis Ababa in 2017. Chapter five and Six contains Loss and damage from flooding in Akaki Kality sub city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2018 and Scientific manuscripts for peer reviewed journals respectively. In addition, three abstracts (which were developed from the two outbreak investigation and Surveillance Data analysis) are found in Chapter seven. Chapter Eight presents an Epidemiologic research project entitled “Assessment of Report completeness and factor affecting reporting disease under surveillance among private health facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019. The last chapter (Chapter 9) contains additional out puts (One Epidemic Bulletin, Conference attended, Training received and provided, ……. etc.).