Background
The Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program (PHFP) is a partnership between the Ministry of Health (MoH), Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH), and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The PHFP is a training-through-service capacity building program that aims to create a cadre of public health workers who can efficiently and effectively address public health challenges in Uganda. The program supports various health interventions including those that focus on surveillance and epidemic investigations/response as well as communicable and non-communicable diseases. The PHFP offers a two-year Field Epidemiology Training Program that is tenable at MakSPH and MoH. The Field Epidemiology Training Program is a training-through-service program in applied epidemiology and public health leadership. Enrolled Fellows develop competencies by providing valuable public health services to the Ministry of Health and District Health Teams. Currently, there are 21 Fellows enrolled on the program; 11 in their second year (Cohort 2017) and 10 in their first year (Cohort 2018).
Between July and September 2018, the Fellows continued to receive technical and financial support from the program as well as their host sites to implement a series of activities that are related to the program and host site expectations.
Uganda Field Epidemiology Training Program (Master of Public Health)
The Uganda Field Epidemiology Training Program (UFETP) was established in 1994 and is hosted by the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH). Graduates receive a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) upon completion of the program. It is one of the graduate programs at the School of Public in the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University. The MPH program is modeled around the Public Health Schools Without Walls (PHSWOW) concept, which places emphasis on a practical, field-oriented, competency-based training approach. The philosophy of the MPH program is to develop high quality and sustainable training strategies which produce public health practitioners and leaders who are competent enough to address public health challenges at the national, district, and community levels in Uganda and beyond.
Publications
PUBLICATIONS IN 2018
| TITLE |
CATEGORY |
LINK |
A case-control study of factors associated with caesarean sections at
health facilities in Kabarole District, Western Uganda, 2016 |
RESEARCH |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/29/179/full/ |
Virological failure on first-line antiretroviral therapy; associated factors and a pragmatic approach for switching to second line
therapy–evidence from a prospective cohort study in rural South-Western Uganda, 2004-2011 |
RESEARCH |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/29/191/full/ |
| An analysis of trends and distribution of the burden of road traffic injuries in Uganda, 2011 to 2015: a retrospective study |
RESEARCH |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/31/1/full/ |
| Adherence to complementary feeding guidelines among caregivers of children aged 6-23 months in Lamwo district, rural Uganda |
RESEARCH |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/31/17/full/ |
| Level and factors associated with uptake of human papillomavirus infection vaccine among female adolescents in Lira District, Uganda |
RESEARCH |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/31/184/full/ |
| Cholera outbreak in a fishing village in Uganda: a case study |
CASE STUDY |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/series/30/1/8/full/ |
| Investigating an outbreak of measles in Kamwenge District, Uganda, July 2015 |
CASE STUDY |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/series/30/1/9/full/ |
| Investigating a cholera outbreak in Kaiso Fishing Village, Hoima District, Uganda, October 2015 |
CASE STUDY |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/series/30/1/14/full/ |
Evaluation of a laboratory capacity strengthening project: a case of the summative assessment of the African Field Epidemiology Network
(AFENET) laboratory project 2010 - 2016 |
PROJECT EVALUATION |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/30/297/full/ |
| The contribution of the polio eradication initiative on the operations and outcomes of non-polio public health programs: a survey of programs in the African region |
RESEARCH |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/31/207/full/ |
| African Case Studies for Public Health Volume 2 |
EDITORIAL |
http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/series/30/1/17/full/ |
Cohorts
FETP resident enrollment and currently in-training by the Program
| FETP level |
Cohort |
Start date |
Expected completion date |
Track |
Number enrolled |
Number in training this quarter |
| Advanced |
2017 |
10/Jan/2017 |
9/Jan/2019 |
Epi |
11 |
11 |
| 2018 |
9/Jan/2018 |
8/Jan/2020 |
Epi |
10 |
10 |
The Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program – Field Epidemiology Track is the Advanced FETP in Uganda. Currently, only the Field Epidemiology track is operational with a current enrolment of two cohorts of 21 Fellows.
Residents graduated by the Program
| FETP level |
Cohort |
Start date |
Completion date |
Track |
Numbers enrolled |
Numbers graduated |
| Advanced |
2015 |
20/Jan/2015 |
02/02/2017 |
Epi |
10 |
10 |
| 2016 |
15/Jan/2016 |
14/Jan/2018 |
Epi |
10 |
09 |
Master of Public Health, Uganda
Table 1: FETP resident enrollment and currently in-training by the Program
| Program (FT/ DE) and Cohort (Advanced) |
Start Date |
Expected completion date |
Number Enrolled |
Number in Training this quarter |
| MPH FT (fulltime) |
|
|
Total |
Total |
Males |
Females |
| Year I (Cohort 2018/2019) |
13/08/18 |
January 2021 |
36 |
36 |
19(52.8%) |
17 (47.2%) |
| Year II (Cohort 2017/2018) |
14/08/17 |
January 2020 |
40 |
32 |
14 (43.8%) |
18 (56.2%) |
| Outgoing Cohort 2016/2017 |
15/08/16 |
January 2019 |
34 |
34 |
16 (47.1%) |
18 (52.9%) |
| Total |
|
|
110 |
102 |
49(48.0%) |
53 (52.0%) |
