Course 5

Under the ICMR/AU - STRC Health Practitioners/Researchers Capacity Building Scheme, a Call for Applications was announced (in June, 2019) for training of African researchers through seven courses to be conducted by the ICMR Institutes in India in the year 2019.

The fifth course on ‘Principles and practice of epidemiology, public health surveillance, outbreak investigation and response’ has been organized at ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai during 18-22 November, 2019 and attended by 15 African researchers from Sierra Leone, Kenya, Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Gambia Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Tanzania, and Liberia.

This five-day course provides a comprehensive overview of introduction to epidemiology; public health surveillance principles and data analysis; outbreak investigation steps and data analysis with focus on practical aspects. The course is a combination of lectures and interactive case studies on surveillance and outbreak investigation facilitated by experienced faculty from ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai.

ICMR-AU Course (No.2/NIE/Nov, 2019) on ‘Principles and practice of epidemiology, public health surveillance, outbreak investigation and response’ organized at ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai during 18-22 November, 2019

Under the ICMR/AU - STRC Health Practitioners/Researchers Capacity Building Scheme, a Call for Applications was announced (in June, 2019) for training of African researchers through seven courses to be conducted by the ICMR Institutes in India in the year 2019.

The fifth course on ‘Principles and practice of epidemiology, public health surveillance, outbreak investigation and response’ has been organized at ICMR- National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai during 18-22 November, 2019 and attended by 15 African researchers from Sierra Leone, Kenya, Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Gambia Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Malawi, Tanzania, and Liberia.

This five-day course provides a comprehensive overview of introduction to epidemiology; public health surveillance principles and data analysis; outbreak investigation steps and data analysis with focus on practical aspects. The course is a combination of lectures and interactive case studies on surveillance and outbreak investigation facilitated by experienced faculty from ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai.