Public Health Surveillance: Course Overview

Describe how surveillance is used in public health practice • Explain the difference between surveillance and other field epidemiology activities, e.g., planned studies • Describe key surveillance systems in Vietnam • Describe how surveillance systems are established • Describe the key steps in analyzing and interpreting surveillance data • Use surveillance data to propose appropriate public health responses • Evaluate a surveillance system and identify opportunities for improvement

Public Health Surveillance:

Course Overview

Matt Moore, Resident Advisor Field Epidemiology Training Program

Objectives: By the end of this module,

you should be able to:

• Describe how surveillance is used in public health practice

• Explain the difference between surveillance and other field epidemiology

activities, e.g., planned studies

• Describe key surveillance systems in Vietnam

• Describe how surveillance systems are established

• Describe the key steps in analyzing and interpreting surveillance data

• Use surveillance data to propose appropriate public health responses

• Evaluate a surveillance system and identify opportunities for improvement

Please tell us if you are not feeling confident about these skills!

Schedule for the week

8:30-10:00

1 Opening

2 Overview of the course

3 Short pre-test

Recap of the previous day Short pre-tests

9 Surveillance of AEFI (Adverse events following immunization)

12 Routine monitoring of

surveillance data

14 Analyzing, interpreting and communicating

surveillance data

Fellows finalize their own Surveillance system evaluation

proposal

10:00-10:15 Refreshment break

10:15-12:00

4 Overview of surveillance and surveillance models

5 Establishing a surveillance system

6 Identifying and reporting cases of priority diseases

Fellows introduce their working –on surveillance systems

13 Evaluating Surveillance

System

Fellows present their own Surveillance system evaluation proposal

Fellows finalize their own Surveillance system evaluation proposal

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:15

7 Disease Surveillance system in Viet Nam

10 Sentinel surveillance of influenza (SARI/ILI/SVP) in Viet Nam

Fellows work on their own Surveillance system evaluation proposal

Fellows present their own Surveillance system evaluation proposal

Fellows finalize their own Surveillance system evaluation proposal

15:15-15:30 Refreshment break

8 Event based surveillance 11 Overview of pandemic

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Fellows work on their own Fellows present their 15 Post-test

Introductions

If you could trade your life for

would it be and why?

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