Three-day training on epidemiology concludes in Arunachal Pradesh

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ITANAGAR: The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) under the Union Health and Family Welfare ministry, in partnership with US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization, is offering a three-month in-service 3x3 basic epidemiology training programme for frontline public health professionals in Arunachal Pradesh.

The training which focuses on 'earning by doing' in the field, is for three months with one contact session of three days per month for consecutive three months, an official communiqué informed here on Friday. The training is a combination of classroom lectures with hands-on exercises and two field assignments. The assignments are mentor supported and aimed at knowledge enhancement. The mentors selected to guide the participants were from the community medicine faculty of Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (TRIHMS) and state public health specialists.

The lectures and assignments focus on the basics of epidemiology; data quality and surveillance; outbreak investigation; and other topics related to field epidemiology. The training for Arunachal Pradesh was held from October 27-October 29 at Naharlagun, near here.

The participants included district surveillance officers and epidemiologists from 13 districts – Anjaw, Changlang, Dibang Valley, East Siang, Capital Complex, Lohit, Longding, Lower Dibang Valley, Namsai, Upper Subansiri, Siang, Tirap, Upper Siang.

The training was inaugurated by state Principal Secretary Health & Family Welfare Dr Sharat Chauhan and Dr Sujeet Kumar Singh, Director NCDC. Dr Sudhir Kumar Jain Advisor NCDC, Dr Himanshu Chauhan NPO-IDSP were other senior officials from NCDC. The training was successfully completed due to the efforts of Dr L Jampa SSO-IDSP and his team. The training programme aimed to build a skilled public health workforce, ready to face health related threats, both anticipated and those not expected. In addition, the training also focuses on building relationships between state public health staff and medical college faculty, so that they could complement each other in various public health response related activities.

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