2018 Annual Progress Report of the TEPHINET Secretariat

Date published
Author(s)
Tina Rezvani

Summary

Download the 2018 Annual Progress Report of the TEPHINET Secretariat: Building Global Applied Epidemiology Capacity through Field Epidemiology Training Programs for a summary of our work in 2018.

Contents:

  • A Message from the TEPHINET Advisory Board Chairman
  • Introducing the Global Field Epidemiology Roadmap
  • 2018 By the Numbers
  • In Memoriam (a tribute to Dr. Dionisio Herrera)
  • Who We Are
  • Programs
  • Feature: Spotlight on the Cameroon Field Epidemiology Training Program
  • Feature: Spotlight on the Bangladesh Field Epidemiology Training Program
  • Feature: Until There Are None: Immunizing All Children is Key to Eradicating Polio
  • 2018 TEPHINET Conferences
  • 2018 Projects
  • TEPHINET Advisory Board
  • TEPHINET Secretariat Staff
  • Acknowledgements

To request printed copies, please contact Tina Rezvani at trezvani@tephinet.org.

Resource type
Annual report
Source
TEPHINET Secretariat

Featured Photos

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FETP trainee conducts door to door interviews to collect data during a foodborne disease outbreak caused by donated iftar food in Gunungkidul District, Indonesia in June 2018 (Kusnia Wati Rahayu, Indonesia FETP)

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Dr. Shumaila Rasool, Technical Support Officer for N-STOP-Sindh, checks the vaccination status of a child under five years of age inside a house during the September 2018 NID in high-risk Union Council 4 (Gujro), Gadap town, Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo: TEPHINET)

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FETP fellow Husam Muhammad Shah Alam investigates a suspected Nipah virus outbreak in the Faridpur district of Bangladesh in March 2018 (Mohammad Gazi Shah Alam, Bangladesh FETP)

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Active search for community cholera cases in a household where a confirmed cholera case had been reported during a cholera outbreak in the North region of Cameroon, 2016 (Amabo Franck Chi, Cameroon FETP)

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A vector control specialist from CDC Taiwan demonstrates how to conduct a larvae survey in used tires with project participants to improve local public health practitioners’ ability to identify and eliminate vector breeding sites (Yu Neng Chueh, Taiwan FETP)

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Investigation of cases of visceral leishmaniasis in the municipality of San Agustín Acasaguastlán Department of El Progreso Guastatoya, Guatemala in July 2018 (Erica Lidia Chavez Vasquez, Guatemala FETP)

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Implementing prevention and control measures in response to an epidemic of hand, foot and mouth disease in the hill tribe villages in northern Thailand (Tawatchai Apidechkul, Thailand FETP)

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Under the leadership of a village doctor, the investigation team walks in Kui Town, Yunnan Province, China to visit families of cases during a June 2017 paratyphoid A epidemic (Qi Wen Feng, China FETP).

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Children in an indigenous community in the rural area of the municipality of Solano, Caquetá, Colombia in 2018 during a process of strengthening rapid coverage monitoring for vaccination (Lilian Andrea Rodriguez Gutierrez, Colombia FETP)

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