Diseases Surveillance and Reporting Workshop

Introduction

Emerging and re-emerging events with a potential to cause disease outbreak remain a constant threat to global health security. In most developing countries, public health workers and community health workers are supporting initiatives and programmes like polio eradication, onchocerciasis, guinea worm eradication, trachoma control, integrated community case management, maternal and child health integrated programme, and early warning and response to public health emergencies among others. In some countries structures are not functional or are still to be built to detect, prevent and respond to public health events.

Training course on Disease surveillance and Reporting is offered by IRES-ILDC with an aim of strengthening the national capacity for surveillance and control of public health events of national and international concern.

Duration

5 Days

Who Should Attend

The course is intended for researchers, clinicians, public health professionals, epidemiologists, from public and private institutions who need to improve their skills on surveillance and reporting of public health related events and concerns.

Module 1: Introduction to disease surveillance

• Define public health surveillance and describe its components
• Identify different data sources for surveillance and monitoring health status for a given population
• Establish public health priorities for a population
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to evaluate and improve surveillance systems
• Steps of an outbreak investigation

Module 2: Introduction to surveillance system

• Definition of Surveillance System
• Types of surveillance systems
• Steps and Functions of Surveillance Systems

Module 3: Mapping for surveillance and outbreak investigation

• Introduction to GIS
• Infectious disease surveillance and GIS
• Outbreak investigation and GIS
• GIS analysis and mapping techniques

Module 4: Sources and methods of gathering surveillance data

• Typical sources of data
• Analyzing and interpreting surveillance data
• Disseminating data
• Evaluating and improving surveillance

Module 5: Reporting

• Reporting priority diseases
• Introduction to reporting tools
• When to report (thresholds)
• Evaluating reports