US Supports Regional Emergency Management With Public Health Training
The United States Government said it has graduated its first cohort of the Regional Public Health Emergency Management Training in Abuja.
The intermediate level training was hosted by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) in collaboration with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC).
The program aims to enhance outbreak preparedness and response skills, equipping the region to better tackle epidemics and pandemics. The initiative is part of the US government’s support for global health security.
In a statement made available to THE WHISTLER on Saturday, the United States Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria, Public Affairs Section, said the Public Health Emergency Management Professional Certification Program provides emergency operations staff and other public health experts with specialized training in public health emergency management, operations, and other critical preparedness and response skills.
The training which lasted for two days recorded the participation of seventeen public health emergency operations center staff members from countries across the region including Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Liberia, and Mali.
According to the statement, they learned and strengthened the skills needed to effectively operate incident management systems for outbreak preparedness and response, resulting to a better equipped region to prepare for, and respond to epidemics and pandemics.
In her remarks at the graduation ceremony, the U.S. CDC Division of Global Health Protection Acting Program Director Asmau Aminu-Alhaji thanked the graduates for their dedication to public health both at home and across the region and highlighted the importance of public health collaboration and communication across borders.
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