| The Rwanda Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program: training skilled disease detectives. | |
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PMID: 22359695 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Rwanda still suffers from communicable diseases which frequently lead to epidemics. In addition to other health workforce needs, Rwanda also lacks a public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems at the national and sub-national levels.In 2009 and 2010 the Rwanda Ministry of Health and its partners from the Government of Rwanda (GOR) as well as the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the African Field Epidemiology Network, and other partners embarked on a series of activities to develop a public health workforce that would be trained to operate disease surveillance and response systems at the national and district levels. The Rwanda Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (RFELTP) is a 2-year public health leadership development training program that provides applied epidemiology and public health laboratory training while the trainees provide public health service to the Ministry of Health. RFELTP is hosted at the National University of Rwanda School of Public Health for the didactic training. RFELTP is funded by GOR, the US Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the World Bank; it is managed by a multi-sectoral steering committee headed by the Minister of Health. The first RFELTP cohort has 15 residents who were recruited from key health programs in GOR. Over the first year of implementation, these 15 residents have conducted a variety of field investigations and responded to several outbreaks. RFELTP has also trained 145 frontline health workers through its two-week applied short courses. In the future, RFELTP plans to develop a veterinary track to address public health issues at the animal-human interface. |
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Authors:
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Isaac Ntahobakurira; Simon Antara; Tura Boru Galgalo; Jean Baptiste Kakoma; Corine Karema; Thierry Nyatanyi; Rutagwenda Theogene; Odette Mukabayire; David Lowrance; Pratima Raghunathan; Nicholas Ayebazibwe; David Mukanga; Peter Nsubuga; Agnes Binagwaho |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2011-12-14 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Pan African medical journal Volume: 10 Supp 1 ISSN: 1937-8688 ISO Abbreviation: Pan Afr Med J Publication Date: 2011 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2012-02-23 Completed Date: 2012-06-15 Revised Date: 2013-05-09 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 101517926 Medline TA: Pan Afr Med J Country: Uganda |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 7 Citation Subset: IM |
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National University of Rwanda School of Public Health, Kigali, Rwanda. |
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Animals Clinical Competence Cooperative Behavior Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control Epidemics / prevention & control Epidemiology / education*, manpower, organization & administration Humans Laboratory Personnel / education* Leadership Population Surveillance / methods Public Health / education*, manpower, methods Public Health Practice* Rwanda |
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