ETHIOPIA FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM (EFETP) COMPILED BODY OF WORKS IN FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY

Abstract

Executive summary The Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) is a two year an in-service training program in field epidemiology adapted from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program. The program is designed to assist the Ministry of Health in building or strengthening health systems by recruiting promising health workers and building their competencies through on-the-job mentorship and training. Because trainees work in active public health teams that are tackling the most serious and acute problems of the population, their work is exciting and leads to improvements in program implementation even as the trainees are learning. The EFETP program has two main components, each of which contributes to the award of the Master’s degree (MPH) in Field Epidemiology. A classroom teaching component (25%) and practical attachment or field placement component (75%) consisting of disease investigations, surveillance evaluations, surveys, and applied research on national health problems. This body of work contains six chapters. The first chapter contains thesis report on Median time of HIV Plasma viral load suppression after ART in East Shoa zone, Oromiya region. The second chapter details Measles Outbreak Investigation and Response in Danno Woreda, West Shewa Zone, Oromiya Region. In this outbreak investigation, Measles outbreak had been confirmed by Epidemiological link and laboratory investigation. The third chapter includes Malaria surveillance data analysis in East shoa zone, Oromiya region. Malarial case was analyzed based on three categories of data available from East Shewa zone health department. The cases are clinical malaria, confirmed Plasmodium falciparum and Malaria other than Plasmodium falciparum. The fourth chapter was all about surveillance system evaluation in Gimbichu woreda, East Shoa zone, Oromiya region. Surveillance system in this wereda was evaluated by observing activities related to surveillance from community level to zonal health department and includes observation from other sectors outside health. Chapter five describes health profile of Bora woreda East shoa zone, Oromiya. Parameters that describes health status of the woreda has been discussed in details. Additional output activities were included in chapter six that includes preparation of quality manual for Bokoji Hospital, EQA standard operating procedure for OPHRCBQA lab, and laboratory practical summary report in OPHRCBQA lab