Egypt Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP)
Building Capacity for Public Health Leadership
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Egypt-FETP is a training program aiming to reduce the burden of major public health problems by training a cadre of public health workers who can provide essential epidemiologic services to the country, and hence strengthening the Ministry of Health and Population capacity and infrastructure to:
Strengthen the national surveillance systems of infectious diseases
Develop response capacity for effective field investigation and control
Ensure the use of population-based health statistics in estimating the burden of injuries and infectious diseases
Improve the use of population-based data for monitoring & improving performance and quality and evaluating the results of health-related interventions.
The Egypt FETP was the second Field Epidemiology Training Program to develop within the Eastern Mediterranean region. The advanced level (two-year) program began in 1993 in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The program aims to produce proficient field epidemiologists to serve the Ministry of Health and Population in disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, and response activities and strengthening public health systems. Mentoring is successfully implemented to drive rich learning and improvement for both residents and mentors.
Most of the program's graduates have continued their public health careers after graduation working as epidemiologists to serve the preventive sector of the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population and have filled leadership positions at central and governorate levels. Several graduates are working for the World Health Organization (WHO), African CDC, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and other international non-governmental organizations.