Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Dec;23(13):S166-73. doi: 10.3201/eid2313.170803.
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 detected the Ebola outbreak earlier. In 2015, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched FETP-Frontline, a 3-month field training program targeting local MOH staff in 24 countries to augment local public health capacity. As of December 2016, FETP-Frontline has trained 1,354 graduates in 24 countries. FETP-Frontline enhances global health security by training local public health staff to improve surveillance quality in their jurisdictions, which can be a valuable strategy to strengthen the capacity of countries to more rapidly detect, respond to, and contain public health emergencies at the source.
自 1980 年以来，现场流行病学培训计划（FETP）培训了大批高素质的现场流行病学家，为全球各国卫生部工作。然而，2013 至 2015 年期间在西非爆发的埃博拉疫情主要影响了几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂，暴露出地方一级缺乏现场流行病学家的问题。这些层面上受过培训的流行病学家本可以更早地发现埃博拉疫情的爆发。2015 年，美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）启动了 FETP-前线计划，这是一个为期 3 个月的现场培训计划，针对 24 个国家的地方卫生部工作人员，以增强当地公共卫生能力。截至 2016 年 12 月，FETP-前线计划已在 24 个国家培训了 1354 名毕业生。FETP-前线计划通过培训地方公共卫生工作人员来提高其管辖范围内的监测质量，从而增强了全球卫生安全，这是加强各国能力的一项宝贵战略，可以更迅速地在源头发现、应对和控制突发公共卫生事件。
