2024 WFED

As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, and presently Mpox, diseases know no borders. Globally, we are more interconnected and mobile than ever before, making a health threat anywhere a health threat everywhere. Therefore, every country needs effective field epidemiology capacity to detect, investigate, and control health threats. This includes activities such as health surveys; disease surveillance; establishing/evaluating surveillance systems; performing applied field research and evaluating prevention/control efforts. 

 

Field epidemiologists also known as “disease detectives” help track, contain and eliminate outbreaks before they become epidemics. Field epidemiologists have been at the forefront of the global and national response to COVID-19, involved in contact tracing, case investigation, community engagement, data collection and analysis, and much more. When health threats strike, these disease detectives investigate and apply their knowledge to keep people from getting sick.   

 

In Nigeria, field epidemiologists have played a major role in fighting infectious diseases such as Ebola, polio, Lassa fever, cholera, Mpox, measles and meningitis, environmental hazards such as lead poisoning and non-communicable diseases such as hypertension. 

 

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has the mandate to lead the training of field epidemiologists in Nigeria through the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (NFELTP). The NCDC and NFELTP will join AFENET and TEPHINET, other public health institutions and FETPs to celebrate the World Field Epidemiology Day (WFED) on 7th September 2024.

The theme for this year’s WFED is “Collaboration is essential to field epidemiology.”   

 

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