Murray Trostle

TL;DR: The reemergence of diphtheria warns of an immediate threat of other epidemics in the NIS and Baltic States and a longer-term potential for the reemERGence of vaccine-preventable diseases elsewhere.

TL;DR: Two ways that health ministries in developing countries could leverage President Obama’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) to build public health surveillance and response systems using proven models for public health systems strengthening and to create the public health workforce to operate those systems are described.

TL;DR: African FETPs have unique features which may explain their high retention of graduates, including programme ownership by ministries of health and local universities; well defined career paths; competence-based training coupled with a focus on field practice during training; awarding degrees upon completion; extensive training and research opportunities made available to graduates; and the social capital acquired during training.

TL;DR: The African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) as discussed by the authors was established between 2005 and 2006 as a network of FETPs and FELTPs in sub-Saharan Africa.