Help gear up veterinary epi capacity for FAO’s Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) Office in Liberia, 2 months plus, Provide Epi training to the Epi staff at MoA and ECTAD National Epi Expert, hands-on, very practical with some theoretical background. For more information contact Sophie.VonDobschuetz@fao.org
Duties for the international Epi expert:
- Provide Epi training to the Epi staff at MoA and ECTAD National Epi Expert (teaching basic principles of Epid/surveillance); hands-on experience; very practical but with some theoretical background
- Provide help in the revision and / or development of surveillance plans for priority animal diseases (zoonotic / non-zoonotic), from grass-root level to Central level (I am working on this also with Leelia, but it is important that someone spends more time on a 1-to-1 basis); skills on Epi here are not strong! Also helping with development of training materials.
- Once Surv plans are developed if there is time to help developing ‘contingency’ plans for priority zoonotic diseases
- Provide help in selecting / training RRT on surveillance activities
- Strengthen capacity at central and sub-national levels on disease detection, early warning (in general and high risk areas) - training on this area
- Link with work of the VCE (risk areas, with knowledge on risk mapping, etc.) both at FAO and MoA.
