The 7th Graduation Ceremony of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Field Epidemiology Track

The Uganda Public Health Fellowship program has successfully graduated a total of 79 Advanced Field Epidemiology Training Program fellows since 2015. On 13^th January 2023, 14 fellows were awarded for completing the two-year-in-service field epidemiology training program. This was the 8th cohort of fellows, who took on the course from 2021 to 2022. The fellows were of mixed backgrounds, including Medicine, Laboratory, Public Health, Nursing, Environmental Health, Community Health Science, Pharmacy, Wildlife Health and management. During their course, they supported the different Ministry of Health departments and were attached to the following host sites: Department of Integrated Epidemiology, Surveillance and Public Health Emergencies (IES&PHE), STI/AIDS Control Program, Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, Reproductive Health Department, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program, National Malaria Control Division (NMCD), Division of health information and Uganda Cancer Institute, and Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization

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 both national and international conferences and manuscript writing. Congratulation to the 14 fellows upon the completion of the program and wish them the best in their future career path.