Epidemiology Course CDC

Can you tell me about Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC )?

[Arun Vats]

The Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) is a program for detecting and responding to health threats and to develop expertise so disease outbreaks. Through FETP threat can be detected locally and prevented from spreading.

CDC works with foreign ministries of health to establish field (or applied) epidemiology training programs modeled after CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service .FETP provide information that is used by public health workers who use that science and data to detect and monitor disease outbreaks and determine public health policy and programming.

CDC has establish 50 programs Since 1980 and, as of February 2013 and supports workforce development in 46 countries.

Contact Detail:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd. Atlanta,
GA 30333, USA
800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636)
TTY: (888) 232-6348

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