Seymour G. Williams, MD, is Team Lead, Field Epidemiology Training Program; Robert E. Fontaine, MD, is Senior Advisor, Field Epidemiology Training Program; Reina M. Turcios Ruiz, MD, is Team Lead, Monitoring and Evaluation; all in the Workforce and Institute Development Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. Henry Walke, MD, is Director, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA. Kashef Ijaz, MD, is Principal Deputy Director, and Henry C. Baggett, MD, is Chief, Workforce and Institute Development Branch; both in the Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Williams and Dr. Baggett are senior co-authors. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health Secur. 2020 Jan;18(S1):S113-S118. doi: 10.1089/hs.2019.0119.
The World Health Organization monitoring and evaluation framework for the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) describes the targets for the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) indicators. For workforce development, the JEE defines the optimal target for attaining and complying with the IHR (2005) as 1 trained field epidemiologist (or equivalent) per 200,000 population. We explain the derivation and use of the current field epidemiology workforce development target and identify the limitations and lessons learned in applying it to various countries' public health systems. This article also proposes a way forward for improvements and implementation of this workforce development target.
世界卫生组织(世卫组织)《国际卫生条例(2005)》监测和评价框架描述了联合外部评估(JEE)指标的目标。就劳动力发展而言,JEE 将达到和遵守《国际卫生条例(2005)》的最佳目标定义为每 20 万人配备 1 名受过培训的现场流行病学家(或同等人员)。我们解释了当前现场流行病学劳动力发展目标的推导和使用,并确定了在将其应用于各国公共卫生系统时的局限性和经验教训。本文还为改进和实施这一劳动力发展目标提出了前进的方向。