Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) Compiled Body of works in field Epidemiology
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2018-06
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Addis Ababa Universty
Abstract
Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) is a two years competency based
master’s program adapted from United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)
Epidemic Intelligence service (EIS) program .Addis Ababa University, the Federal Ministry of
Health of Ethiopia/Ethiopian public health institute(EPHI), The Ethiopian Public Health
Association(EPHA) and Regional Health Bureaus run the program jointly. It compriseD of 25%
class learning and 75% field activities, working in public health emergency and other related
priority issues. It is designed to assist the Ministry of Health in building or strengthening health
systems by selecting health workers and building their competencies through on the job
mentorship and training.
This compiled body of works composed of seven chapters accomplished during the two years
residency period .It comprises two outbreak investigation, surveillance data analysis report,
surveillance system evaluation, one abstract on measles data analysis, health profile description
report, finalized scientific manuscript for peer review journals and protocol or proposal for
Epidemiologic research project
All the outputs during the residency period were complied in to single document .the first chapter
consist of outbreak investigation ,two outbreaks were investigated ,Cholera in kolfe keraniyo sub
city Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia in September 2017 and Malaria in Dasenech district, Libemuket
cluster of five villages(Libemuket,cs,gumburbur,gumburburdebermus and Bayo) South Omo
zone, Southern Nation and Nationalities of People Region, Ethiopia, in May,2018 .the second
chapter is surveillance data analysis on Description of Five Years Measles facility report in
Kolfe Keraniyo Sub city from January, 2012-March, 2017, surveillance system evaluation was conducted in kolfe keraniyo sub city ,Addis Ababa ,Ethiopia, march, 2017 .Health profile
description report was conducted in woreda nine, kolfe keraniyo sub city Addis Ababa, 2017.one
manuscript and one abstract was prepared. Proposal for epidemiologic research project was also
prepared on Assessment of incomplete immunization and associated factors among children age
12-23 month in kolfe-keraniyo sub city health centers, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2018
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Epidemiology,Kolfe Keraniyo Sub city