Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Programs as a Strategy to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response
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Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Programs as a Strategy to Improve Disease Surveillance and Response
Since 1980, Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) have trained highly qualified field epidemiologists to work for ministries of health (MOH) around the world. However, the 2013-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, which primarily affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, demonstrated a lack of field epidemiologists at the local levels. Trained epidemiologists at these levels could have ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid2313.170803