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Welcome to the latest edition of the Health Protection Report. For quick access to any item, click on the HTML links below to view the website content. This email also lists upcoming outbreak investigation training courses not included on the webpage.
The Health Protection Report is a national public health bulletin for England and Wales, published by Public Health England Note: A new landing page has been created for the current year's (Volume 12) issues at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-protection-report-volume-12-2018. Previous years' issues can be accessed via the links at the bottom of each year's landing page. News Infection reports
Training courses - Practical Issues in Outbreak Investigation, 13 March.
This one-day course (previously titled, Advanced Outbreak Management Course) is intended to update the skills of those who have had previous first-hand experience of infectious disease outbreak investigation by reviewing a number recent, real-life incidents and outbreaks. This includes review of: incident/outbreak management/control team terms of reference; control measures instituted; how epidemiological and microbiological evidence was collated; relations between different parties involved in incident/outbreak response; and how stakeholder and media communications were handled. The course is intended for members of local PHE health protection teams, NIS epidemiologists and public health trainees. Venue: PHE Colindale, NW8 5EQ. Further information: gloria.wilson@phe.gov.uk. - Outbreak investigation course (two days), 24-25 April.
This structured, two-day training course providing a grounding in microbiological, epidemiological, environmental and statistical aspects of infectious disease outbreak investigation and control. The first day, on Detection and Investigation of Outbreaks, focusses on the design of cohort and case-control epidemiological studies, hypothesis generation and the use of descriptive epidemiology. A number of recent, real-life incidents and outbreaks will be considered. Venue: PHE Colindale, NW8 5EQ. Further information: gloria.wilson@phe.gov.uk. The second day, Outbreak Investigation and Analytical Epidemiology, considers statistical aspects of epidemiological investigations, including critical appraisal of epidemiological data, in more depth. Participants are required to have a basic understanding of statistical analysis (sampling protocols, "p" values, confidence intervals, etc) although exercises using statistical software are not involved. Venue: PHE Colindale, NW8 5EQ. Further information: gloria.wilson@phe.gov.uk. |
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