Cholera outbreak in a fishing village in Uganda: a case study

Cholera outbreak in a fishing village in Uganda: a case study

Bao-Ping Zhu^1,&, Gerald Pande², Benon Kwesiga², Alex Riolexus Ario²

 

¹Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kampala, Uganda, ²Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda

 

 

^&Corresponding author
Bao-Ping Zhu, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kampala, Uganda

 

 

 

 

General instructions: ideally, 1 or 2 instructors facilitate the case study for 8 to 15 participants in a classroom or conference room. After a brief introduction about the case study, the instructor asks a participant to read aloud a paragraph or two, going around the room and giving each participant a chance to read. After the participant has finished reading a question, the instructor directs all participants to perform calculations, construct graphs, or engage in a discussion of the answer. Sometimes, the instructor can split the class to play different roles, conduct calculations on different parts of a question, or take different sides in answering the question. As a result, participants enrich their learning experience.

 

Audience: FETP trainees (intermediate or advanced levels), public health or surveillance officers at national or subnational levels, Master of Public Health (MPH) students at schools of public health, and other public health officials interested in learning how to conduct outbreak investigations.

 

Prerequisites: case study participants should have received lectures and training on fundamentals of biostatistics, fundamentals of epidemiology, outbreak investigation and Epi Info 7.

 

Materials needed: flip charts, marker set: one per 8-10 participants; Laptop computers with Microsoft Office Suite and Epi Info 7 pre-installed; Projector, projection screen (or substitutes), and LASER pointer

 

Level of training and associated public health activity: Intermediate to Advanced

 

Time required: 2-3 hours

 

Language: English

 

 

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The authors declare no competing interest.

 

 

The authors would like to thank staff of the Ministry of Health of Uganda, the Health Officer and the District Health Team of Kasese District and the staffs at Kwete Kabatooro Town Council and Health Centre III, and the fellows of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program – Field Epidemiology Track (Cohort 2015) for their support and assistance.

 

 

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