%0 Journal Article
%T Training Ghanaian frontline healthcare workers in public health surveillance and disease outbreak investigation and response
%A Donne Kofi Ameme
%A Edwin Andrews Afari
%A Fred Wurapa
%A Kofi Mensah Nyarko
%A Samuel Oko Sackey
%A Simon Antara
%J Archive of "The Pan African Medical Journal".
%D 2016
%R 10.11604/pamj.supp.2016.25.1.6179
%X Beyond initial formal academic education, the need for continuous professional development through in-service workforce capacity improvement programs that are aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills of public healthcare workers has assumed immense priority worldwide. This has been heightened by the on-going Ebola Virus Disease outbreak, which is exposing the weak public health systems in West Africa. In response to this need, the Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Program organized a short-course for frontline health workers in the Greater Accra region of Ghana in order to augment their surveillance and outbreak response capacity
%K Training Ghanaian
%K frontline health workers
%K Ghana
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5257016/