The Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program recruited the 6th cohort of Field Epidemiology fellows for the period 2020-2021. The program annually recruits fellows for a two-year in-service training program. Pioneer fellows for the Field Epidemiology track (FET) were recruited in 2015.
The thirteen 2020 cohort of fellows are of mixed backgrounds, including Medicine, Laboratory, Veterinary medicine, Radiography, Biostatistics, and Environmental health. During their course of training, they will be disease detectives providing invaluable support to the different priority Ministry of Health (MoH) departments. They have been attached to various priority host sites within MoH and related institutions.
These sites include; 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.
We wish the team a great time during the training. Brace yourselves for a wonderful ride!