ENDORSE EDCTP-CSA-Ebola-337
Short
name: ENDORSE EDCTP-CSA-Ebola-337
Title: ENhancing individual and institutional infectious
Disease Outbreaks ResponSe capacities of healthcare professionals to mitigate
infectious Emergencies in the Northern Uganda region
Geographical
Scope: Sub – Saharan
Africa
Participating
Countries: Uganda
Duration: 2 years
Role: Leader (UNIMI)
Consortium: St Mary’s Hospital Lacor, L. Sacco Hospital, Kimmage
Development Studies Centre
Contracting
Authority: The European &
Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this project is to build and strengthen individual
and institutional preparedness to respond to infectious disease outbreaks resulting in
health emergency at the regional and district level in Northern Uganda Region.
ACTIVITIES
To attain the specific
objective, the project will assess existing capacities and training needs in order
to develop a need-based and tailored training model to train healthcare
professionals (laboratory and other healthcare personnel such as physicians and
nurses) from district level hospitals in the target region. In particular, the
project will design and develop a Train-the-Trainer (TtT) training program to train
at least two professionals (one from the laboratories and one from the infectious
diseases unit) per identified hospital. These two professionals will be trained not
only to enhance their capacities and skills in responding to infectious diseases
outbreaks, but also to build or enhance their capacities and skills to further
transfer their knowledge in their workplace. In summary, they will be trained to
become trainers during the following phase of the project. Training will be
evaluated to assess the results and qualify the participants to become trainers. At
a later stage, qualified trainers will be supported by the project to deliver
training courses in their organization to at least 10 trainees per identified
hospital. Training results will be evaluated to assess the overall impact of the
educational activities implemented within the framework of the project. Finally,
dissemination of the results produced within the framework of the project to a wide
audience in order to ensure sustainability, will be ensured at both the local level
in the districts of the region and at national level thanks to the final national
conference.


