{"id":220437,"date":"2024-12-31T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=220437"},"modified":"2024-12-31T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:55:35","slug":"carpha-and-tephinet-sign-mou-to-increase-technical-skills-of-public-health-professionalism-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/carpha-and-tephinet-sign-mou-to-increase-technical-skills-of-public-health-professionalism-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"CARPHA and TEPHINET Sign MoU to Increase Technical Skills of Public Health Professionalism the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) renewing their commitment to increase the skills of public health professionals in applied epidemiological interventions, including outbreak detection, emergency response and surveillance analyses. <\/p>

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Field epidemiology is often described as \u201capplied\u201d or \u201cintervention\u201d epidemiology. It seeks to rapidly address priority public health issues in the community by using the appropriate resources and epidemiologic methods to investigate a problem and make recommendations for public health action, for immediate and longer-term control and prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Lisa Indar, Ad Interim Executive Director, CARPHA reiterated the importance of Field Epidemiology Training Programmes (FETPs) to the Region, \u201dCARPHA\u2019s novel FETP has the laboratory component added to it and is regarded as a \u2018boots on the ground\u2019 programme. <\/p>

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It has built much needed human resources capacity for health (HRH) in the small island developing states of the Caribbean.\u00a0 Participants\u2019 work contributes to the strengthening of the national public health system as a whole, by providing evidence-based information for public health action\u201d.<\/p>

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Dr Carl Reddy, Programme Director, TEPHINET expressed his satisfaction with the outcomes of the regional programme, “TEPHINET is proud to have the Caribbean Regional FELTP as a member of its global network, given the sterling job that it has done in building field epidemiology capacity in an underserved region susceptible to climate change and prone to public health emergencies such as natural disasters”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Laura Lee Boodram, Head, Caribbean Regional Field Epidemiology and Lab Training Programmes (CR-FELTP), CARPHA said, \u201cThe tiered training programme is based on a model of building practical competencies, which enables trainees to apply classroom-based learning to solve real world situations\u201d. <\/p>

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CR-FELTP training content and learning projects address priority public health issues in the Caribbean, such as communicable and non-communicable diseases including HIV\/AIDS; emerging health threats including Chikungunya and Ebola viruses; and laboratory surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key objectives of the MOU are:<\/p>

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