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About the course
Recent global and local crises, including infectious diseases like Ebola and COVID-19, Dengue and non-infectious public health threats such as heavy metal poisoning, chemical plant accidents and nuclear power plant incidents have highlighted a consistent trend. The poor collaboration between laboratory and surveillance systems, spanning human and animal health, to consistently hinders the timely containment of severe outbreaks and major industrial incidents.
This workshop features five outbreak simulation exercises involving zoonotic aspects and a chemical pollution scenario highlighting the difficulties of recognizing a public health event of non-infectious origin. These thoughtfully crafted exercises serve a dual purpose: firstly, to provide to consortium of national specialists a mechanism to assess and enhance their preparedness for such crises, and secondly, to refine interdisciplinary teamwork and readiness protocols, thereby strengthening the overall response capacity.
What you'll learn
- Assess their country’s preparedness level for public health events around four major syndromes
- Produce a draft of national public health event control documents about each of the four syndromes
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of their country in terms of public health event response
- Develop an action plan for the implementation of missing or incomplete elements in their national plans
Enrolment options
Strengthening crisis and outbreak response: laboratory preparedness simulation training
- Can be organized on-site: Worldwide
- Format: Face to face
- Duration: 5 days
- Target audience: Human and veterinary senior lab specialists, clinicians and epidemiologists involved in outbreak response
- Level: All levels
- Participant number: 10 to 20
- Organized for: 8 countries (West Africa)
Recent global and local crises, including infectious diseases like Ebola and COVID-19, Dengue and non-infectious public health threats such as heavy metal poisoning, chemical plant accidents and nuclear power plant incidents have highlighted a consistent trend. The poor collaboration between laboratory and surveillance systems, spanning human and animal health, to consistently hinders the timely containment of severe outbreaks and major industrial incidents.
This workshop features five outbreak simulation exercises involving zoonotic aspects and a chemical pollution scenario highlighting the difficulties of recognizing a public health event of non-infectious origin. These thoughtfully crafted exercises serve a dual purpose: firstly, to provide to consortium of national specialists a mechanism to assess and enhance their preparedness for such crises, and secondly, to refine interdisciplinary teamwork and readiness protocols, thereby strengthening the overall response capacity.
- Facilitator: Julius Manjengwa
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- Can be organized on-site: Worldwide
- Format: Face to face
- Duration: 5 days
- Target audience: Human and veterinary senior lab specialists, clinicians and epidemiologists involved in outbreak response
- Level: All levels
- Participant number: 10 to 20
- Organized for: 8 countries (West Africa)
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