Course content:

1st phase classroom session

• Basic Epidemiology
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Public Health Surveillance (Definition, Objectives, Developing surveillance system)
• Surveillance-Case Definition and Line listing
• Surveillance-Data Management (Time, Place, Person)
• Surveillance-Monitoring and Evaluation
• National public health surveillances of Bangladesh
• Management Information System (MIS)
• Community Based Health Care
• Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
• One Health approach
• Surveillance case study
• field visit
  • Upazilla Health Complex
  • Community Clinic
  • USC/FWC

1st Phase field activity

       Assignment- Simple analysis of public health surveillance data at upazilla level

2nd Phase classroom session

       Oral presentation on surveillance data analysis field activity

       Outbreak investigation (Definition, Objectives)

       Steps of outbreak investigation

       Role of laboratory in outbreak investigation

       IEDCR Laboratory Visit

       Prepare for a 10-minute oral presentation

       Microsoft office (Basic)

       Outbreak case study

2nd Phase field activity

       Assignment- Develop an Outbreak Investigation Report

3rd Phase classroom session

       Oral presentation on outbreak investigation

       Certificate giving ceremony