|
Workshop on Applied epidemiology
Aleppo 23/11-16/12/2010
Responding
to
the
willingness
of
the
Syrian
Ministry
of
Health
to
establish
a
Centre
For
Disease
Control
in
Syria,
and
in
line
with
WHO
commitments
to
Build
the
capacities
of
the
human
resources
in
the
field
of
epidemiology
,WHO
conducted
a 21
day
workshop
on
“Applied
epidemiology”
in
Aleppo
between
23/11/2010
till
16/12/2010.
The
workshop
was
conducted
in
cooperation
with
the
Faculty
of
Medicine
/Alexandria
University/
and
the
Ministry
of
Health.
It
targeted
24
physicians
from
5
governorates
(
Aleppo-Edleb-Deir
Al
zor-Al
Hasakeh-
Damascus-Al
Raqa).
The
selected
participants
were
physicians
working
in
the
communicable
and
non
communicable
departments
in
the
different
governorates.
The
selected
trainees
supposed
to
structure
the
core
team
of
the
Centre
For
Disease
Control
at
the
provincial
level.
To
better
achieve
the
workshop
objective,
WHO
contracted
Dr.
Ahmed
Ramadan
,Prof.
of
Epidemiology
at
Faculty
of
Medicine/
Alexandria
University
/ to
supervise
the
training
process.
Dr.
Ramadan
invited
other
three
consultants
from
Alexandria
University
to
participate
in
facilitating
the
course.
WHO
office
also
invited
Dr
Zouhier
Hallaj
/RA/EMRO
to
facilitate
the
last
week
of
the
workshop.
The
course
provided
the
participants
with
the
most
updated
information
on
applied
epidemiology
to
effectively
tackle
communicable
and
non
communicable
diseases
challenges.
It
also
introduced
best
practices
for
epidemiological
response
when
needed.
The
course
consists
of
four
training
modules:
-
Vaccine preventable diseases: Applied epidemiology and Health services delivery management.
-
Emerging and reemerging diseases, chronic non communicable disease and applications of IHR( 2005) Prevention of Health Care Associated infection.
-
Surveillance of communicable diseases and computer applications ( SPSS ).
-
Chronic non communicable diseases.
-
Prevention of Health Care Associated infections.
 The
course
focused
on
strengthening
epidemiological
knowledge
and
skills,
so
that
participants
will
be
able
to
apply
epidemiological
approaches
in
public
health
reality.
Several
field
visits
were
conducted
to
some
health
facilities
for
this
purpose
.
The
closing
session
of
the
training
workshop
was
attended
by
Dr
Ammar
Talas
/health
director
of
Aleppo
and
representative
of
WHO
Syria
office,
in
which
Dr.
Ahmed
Ramadan
presented
the
course
evaluation
findings
followed
by
certificate
distributions
to
all
trainees
Top |
