Last year in 2018, The Task Force for Global Health, TEPHINET’s parent organisation, convened a meeting of key leaders and stakeholders from across the globe working to develop effective global field epidemiology capacity. From 13-15 February 2019, The Task Force for Global Health convened a follow-up implementation meeting in Geneva at the World Health Organisation. The …
The Zimbabwe Field Epidemiology 2019-2020 cohort started lectures on the 21st of January 2019 and are very excited as they begin their great journey in the field of Epidemiology. Enrolled in the cohort are 10 full time residents and they comprise 6 medical officers, 2 pharmacists and 2 environmental health officers. Also enrolled are 6 part-timers and these …
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The program submitted 10 abstracts for consideration for the 67th EIS conference to be held in Atlanta 16-19 April 2018. Amongst the submitted abstracts, Ms Zvanaka Sithole’s abstract entitled “ Viral Load Suppression among Adolescents on Anti-Retroviral Therapy, Harare City, Zimbabwe, 2017” was selected for an oral presentation. The program has consistently submitted abstracts to …
On the 24th of January 2018, the TEPHINET Global Accrediting Body reached the decision to confer full accreditation upon the Zimbabwe Field Epidemiology training program ( ZIMFETP) making it one of the eight programs to be accredited worldwide. ZIMFETP becomes one of the only three African countries to be accredited after Kenya and Cameroon. Being accredited …
The program enrolled 10 full time and 4 part-time residents who started their didactics on the of 12th January 2018. Thus far they have covered the first and second academic blocks consisting of Public health Philosophy (Mod 1.1), Epidemiology and Field research (Mod 1.2), Biostatics and Statistical Computing (Mod 1.3), Health System Research (Mod 1.4) and …
