Jima Daddi, Mitike Getnet, Hailemariam Zegeye, Bekele Alemayehu, Addissie Adamu, Luce Richard, Wasswa Peter, Namusisi Olivia, Gitta Sheba Nakacubo, Musenero Monica, Mukanga David
Ethiopian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Pan Afr Med J. 2011;10 Supp 1(Suppl 1):5. Epub 2011 Dec 14.
The Ethiopian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (EFELTP) is a comprehensive two-year competency-based training and service program designed to build sustainable public health expertise and capacity. Established in 2009, the program is a partnership between the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health, the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa University School of Public Health, the Ethiopian Public Health Association and the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Residents of the program spend about 25% of their time undergoing didactic training and the 75% in the field working at program field bases established with the MOH and Regional Health Bureaus investigating disease outbreaks, improving disease surveillance, responding to public health emergencies, using health data to make recommendations and undertaking other field Epidemiology related activities on setting health policy. Residents from the first 2 cohorts of the program have conducted more than 42 outbreaks investigations, 27analyses of surveillance data, evaluations of 11 surveillance systems, had28oral and poster presentation abstracts accepted at 10 scientific conferences and submitted 8 manuscripts of which 2are already published. The EFELTP has provided valuable opportunities to improve epidemiology and laboratory capacity building in Ethiopia. While the program is relatively young, positive and significant impacts are assisting the country better detect and respond to epidemics and address diseases of major public health significance.
埃塞俄比亚现场流行病学和实验室培训项目（EFELTP）是一个为期两年的综合性基于能力的培训与服务项目，旨在培养可持续的公共卫生专业知识和能力。该项目于2009年设立，是埃塞俄比亚联邦卫生部、埃塞俄比亚健康与营养研究所、亚的斯亚贝巴大学公共卫生学院、埃塞俄比亚公共卫生协会以及美国疾病控制与预防中心之间的合作项目。该项目的学员约25%的时间用于接受理论培训，75%的时间在实地，即在与卫生部和各地区卫生局共同设立的项目实地基地工作，负责调查疾病暴发、改进疾病监测、应对公共卫生突发事件、利用健康数据提出建议，以及开展其他与现场流行病学相关的活动以制定卫生政策。该项目前两期学员已开展了42次以上的疫情调查、27次监测数据分析、对11个监测系统进行评估，在10次科学会议上有28篇口头报告和海报展示摘要被录用，并提交了8篇论文，其中2篇已发表。EFELTP为提升埃塞俄比亚的流行病学和实验室能力建设提供了宝贵机会。虽然该项目成立时间相对较短，但已产生积极且重大的影响，助力该国更好地发现和应对疫情，并解决具有重大公共卫生意义的疾病问题。
