The United States Government, in collaboration with Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), and the World Health Organization trained 110 health professionals from Ethiopian Federal Police Commission and Ethiopian Ministry of Defense. The trainees graduated this week after completion of the Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP), according to the press statement from the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. FETP is a 3-month in-service training that invests in the capacity to detect, prevent, and respond to outbreaks of diseases and other public health concerns. The involvement of these Ministries will help to improve information-sharing and collaboration in the identification of and response to public health threats, building a truly integrated health response capacity in Ethiopia for the first time. It is an outgrowth of earlier investments by CDC to develop highly skilled public health professionals at the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and regional health bureaus, modeled on CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service.

Source: News Business Ethiopia April 19, 2019 07:41 UTC