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Strengthening health systems in Africa: a case study of the Kenya field epidemiology training program for local frontline health workers.
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- Building a resilient health system for universal health coverage and health security: a systematic review.Global health research and policy · 2024Pooled it
- Pandemic ready or playing catch-up? A scoping review of public health training programs for pandemic preparedness and response efforts.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Utilization and associated determinants of multi-sectoral approach in zoonotic disease surveillance among animal and human healthcare workers in Nakuru County, Kenya.Open research Europe · 2024Article
- Strengthening surveillance, disease detection, and outbreak response through Guinea-Bissau's Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Program: a cross-sectional descriptive study.The Pan African medical journal · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the first two Frontline cohorts of the field epidemiology training program in Guinea, West Africa.Human resources for health · 2022Article
- A comparative cross-sectional evaluation of the Field Epidemiology Training Program-Frontline in Ethiopia.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Impact Evaluation of the Kenya Frontline Field Epidemiology Training Program: Repeated-Measures Study.JMIR medical education · 2021Article
- Addressing the workforce capacity for public health surveillance through field epidemiology and laboratory training program: the need for balanced enhanced skill mix and distribution, a case study from Tanzania.The Pan African medical journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
The logistical and operational challenges to improve public health practice capacity across Africa are well documented. This report describes Kenya's Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program's (KFELTP) experience in implementing frontline public health worker training to transfer knowledge and practical skills that help strengthen their abilities to detect, document, respond to, and report unusual health events. Between May 2014 and May 2015, KFELTP hosted five training courses across the country to address practice gaps among local public health workers. Participants completed a 10-week process: two 1-week didactic courses, a 7-week field project, and a final 1-week course to present and defend the findings of their field project. The first year was a pilot period to determine whether the program could fit into the existing 2-year KFELTP model and whether this frontline-level training would have an impact on local practice. At the end of the first year, KFELTP certified 167 frontline health workers in field epidemiology and data management. This paper concludes that local, national, and international partnerships are critical for improving local public health response capacity and workforce development training in an African setting.
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