FETP Egypt

The Egyptian Field Epidemiology Training Program (E-FETP) is a competency-based training and service program in applied epidemiology and public health that builds the core competencies of public health epidemiologists in communicable disease surveillance and response. FETPs have been modeled and developed in many countries worldwide after the success of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) that was first created by CDC in 1951. Since 1980, CDC has helped establish 55 programs that have trained more than 3,100 graduates from 72 countries. Approximately 80% of graduates work in government in their home countries and many fill leadership positions in the public health systems. It started in 1993, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease control and Prevention. In 2000, the program's success led to the establishment of the Epidemiology & Surveillance Unit (ESU) which is responsible for disease surveillance, outbreak investigation & response, training, and the development of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS). Now FETP is a principle component of the ESU in the Ministry of Health (MOH). Up to year, 2015, 17 cohorts of total 107 officers have been graduated and now provide essential epidemiologic services to the country. E-FETP works in close collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease control and Prevention, Training in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET) and Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET). Residents who are selected and enrolled into the E-FETP, follow its curriculum and receive a certificate of achievement accredited from CDC upon satisfactory completion of the two-year training program.