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The India Field Epidemiology Training Program
Background
In January 2001, the Indian Government established an FETP based in the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE) in Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu State, India. This FETP is one of many institutes of the Indian Council for Medical Research [link to the India FETP org chart] (ICMR) which focuses on infectious disease research. Linkages with other institutes and State partners enable the FETP trainees to undertake investigations of emerging infectious diseases and other public health threats, and help foster linkages with the public health laboratories in the country.
With assistance from DGPHCD, the NIE developed a curriculum for a two-year Masters of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) program, established necessary academic linkages with Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Kerala, and enrolled their first class in January 2001.
In 2004, the program acquired a resident advisor who provides quality supervision and mentoring for the field experiences of the trainees in several States. FETP graduates serve as field mentors and expand in-service training in disease detection and response regionally.
Partners- National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai, India
- Various State Health Departments (Secretaries of Health and Directors of Public Health).
- WHO, Country office
- US Embassy, Science Section, New Delhi, India
- ICMR, Delhi
- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
- National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), New Delhi, India.
- Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Washington DC.
- DHHS/CDC Foundation, Atlanta.
- DGPHCD/CDC, Atlanta.
- GAP/NCHSTP/CDC, Atlanta
So far, with the three cohorts, trainees and faculty have participated in following investigations (*asterisk denotes completed report with a presentation):
- Typhoid fever in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu*
- Investigation of Anthrax and food poisoning in Orissa
- Outbreak of influenza-like fever in Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, and Mizoram
- Designing a cancer registry for Mizoram
- Evaluation of the immunization program, Orissa
- Evaluation of DOTS, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
- Evaluation of malaria control program, Mizoram
- Risk factors for Leptospirosis in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Factors influencing DOTS defaulters in Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu
- Knowledge and practices influencing anemia among adolescent girls in Himachal Pradesh
- Cholera from a village water tank, Orissa*
- *Cholera on a cruise ship, Andaman and Nicobar Islands*
- Viral encephalitis in Gumbly, Tamil Nadu
- West Nile Virus in Yercaud, Salem, Tamil Nadu*
- Acute poisoning and deaths from eating mango kernels in a tribal population, Orissa*
- Assessment of Dengue Fever surveillance data for 10 years, Chennai municipality, TN*
- Assessment of Maternal Mortality Data (DANIDA data), Tamil Nadu State*
- Investigation of a cluster of encephalitis cases (unknown etiology), Siliguri
- Assessment of a Multiple Disease Surveillance System instituted post-disaster in Orissa Investigation of an outbreak of Mumps, Tamil Nadu, and many other studies continue. *
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