Investigating an outbreak of measles in Kamwenge District, Uganda, July 2015

Investigating an outbreak of measles in Kamwenge District, Uganda, July 2015

Alex Riolexus Ario^1,2,&, Fred Nsubuga¹, Lilian Bulage¹, Bao-Ping Zhu³

 

¹Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda, ²Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda, ³US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Uganda

 

 

^&Corresponding author
Alex Riolexus Ario, Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Kampala, Uganda

 

 

 

 

General instructions: the participants will read the paragraphs in the participant’s guide in turns as guided by the instructor. One instructor will facilitate the case study for a class of 10 – 15 students/residents. The instructor may ask for group discussion of an answer or direct a question to one particular participant. For questions that require calculations, the instructor will allow each participant to participate to maximize learning. The instructor may ask for a role play as necessary and also split the class into groups to generate brainstorming. The instructor’s guideprovides sufficient background materials to facilitate learning without review of further references.

 

Audience: residents in Intermediate and Advanced Field Epidemiology Training Programs.

 

Prerequisites: before using this case study, case study participants should have received lectures in defining outbreaks, conducting basic outbreak investigations, and basic biostatistics. Participants should have a basic science degree or equivalent knowledge of science.

 

Materials needed: flip chart or white board, markers, laptop with Microsoft Excel and Epi Info™ packages.

 

Level of training and associated public health activity: intermediate outbreak investigation.

 

Time required: 2-3 hours

 

Language: English

 

 

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The authors declare no competing interests.

 

 

We wish to extend our sincere thanks to African Field Epidemiology Network and Emory University for the funding extended to the successful Case Study Design and Development workshop which enabled us to accomplish this work. We acknowledge Fellows of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship for their contribution to the generation of the dataset whichformed the basis for the development of this case study. We greatly appreciate the technical and practical tips on case study development given by our facilitators – Scott J.N. McNabb, Meeyoung Park, Joseph Asamoah Frimpong, Casey Hall and Shreya Kothari. We cannot forget the encouragement given to us by our CDC colleague Al Forbes. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the following for their peer review during the case study development workshop: Monica Okuga, Kofi Mensah Nyarko, Emmy-Else Ndevaetela, Bernard Sawadogo, Mamadou Sawadogo, Florence Nzilanye Iddrisah, Ernest Konadu Asiedu, Magbagbeola David Dairo and Loveness John Urio.

 

 

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