Call for application for FETP-Frontline training opportunity
The Ministry of Health in partnership with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Makerere University School of Public Health is currently implementing Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP-Frontline). The goal of this program is to strengthen epidemiologic capacity at the district level of the health system by improving the health worker’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to diseases and events of public health importance or international concern.
This is a supervised, on-the-job, competency-based training and service (workforce for health security) program where participants learn and develop epidemiologic skills while providing services to their districts and the country. The scope consists of classroom training (25%), practical field projects and mentored learning delivered by experienced epidemiologists.
Key competencies developed during the training include: 1) surveillance; increasing speed of outbreak detection and summarizing data, 2) outbreak investigation; basic descriptive analysis, 3) epidemiologic methods; managing, analysing and interpreting data and 4) effective communication.
Applications Closed on 30/11/2023 Midnight.
Application call for intermediate field epidemiology training program
The Ministry of Health in partnership with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Makerere University School of Public Health launched the Intermediate Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP-Intermediate) in August 2021 under the Uganda National Institute of Public Health. The goal of this program is to strengthen epidemiologic capacity at the regional level of the health system by improving the health worker’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to diseases and events of public health importance or international concern and to better utilize health data generated through routine surveillance to inform action.
Applications Closed on 20/12/2023 Midnight.