The Uganda Public Health Fellowship program successfully graduated a total of 64 Field Epidemiology Training Program fellows since 2015. In January 2022, 13 fellows were awarded for completing the a two-year-in-service training program. This was the 6th cohort of fellows, who took on the course from 2020 to 2021.
The fellows were of mixed backgrounds, including Medicine, Laboratory, Veterinary medicine, Radiography, Bio-statistics, and Environmental health. During their course of training, they supported different Ministry of Health departments.
The sites of attachment included: Uganda National Expanded program for Immunization, National TB and Leprosy Program, Aids Control Program, Infectious Diseases Institute, National Malaria Control Program, Non-Communicable Diseases Division, Vector Control Division, National Animal Disease Diagnostic and Epidemiology Centre, Maternal and Reproductive health, and the Cancer institute.
They were engaged in various activities involving responding to disease emergencies, projects implementation, surveillance data analysis, and dissemination of findings through various means including abstract presentations at national and international conferences and manuscript writing.
We congratulate the 13 fellows upon the completion of the program and wish them the best in their future career path.