EFFECTIVE AND TIMELY SURVEILLANCE OF RE-EMERGING AND EMERGING DISEASES, IS A WORLDWIDE MAIN CHALLENGE

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070915 8va Con­fe­ren­cia Glo­bal-Mexi­co PRESIDE La Dra Mer­ce­des Juan

The Mini­ster of Health, Mer­ce­des Juan, ope­ned the 8th Glo­bal Con­fe­ren­ce of the Net­work of Trai­ning Pro­grams and Inter­ven­tion in Epi­de­mio­lo­gy and Public Health (THEPHINET)*

Repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of 43 nations, meet to exchan­ge expe­rien­ces in epi­de­mio­lo­gy

Effec­ti­ve and time­ly sur­veil­lan­ce of emer­ging and re-emer­ging disea­ses, repre­sen­ts a major glo­bal chal­len­ge, said the Mini­ster of Health, Dr. Mer­ce­des Juan, stres­sing that in this task, the work of epi­de­mio­lo­gists is essen­tial, sin­ce they are who iden­ti­fy and stu­dy the dif­fe­rent out­breaks of disea­ses.

In the ope­ning of the 8th Glo­bal Con­fe­ren­ce of the Net­work of Trai­ning Pro­grams and Inter­ven­tions in Epi­de­mio­lo­gy and Public Health (TEPHINET), par­ti­ci­pa­ted 43 nations. The Mini­ster of Health highlighted the chal­len­ges that the epi­de­mio­lo­gy face to the glo­ba­li­za­tion.

Accom­pa­nied by the direc­tor of TEPHINRT, Dio­ni­sio Her­re­ra Gui­bert; Pre­si­dent of The Task For­ce for Glo­bal Health, Mark Rosen­berg, and the Under-Secre­ta­ry of Health Pre­ven­tion and Pro­mo­tion of the Mexi­can Mini­stry of Health, Pablo Kuri Mora­les, Dr. Mer­ce­des Juan recal­led that in 2009, Mexi­co aler­ted the world of the pre­sen­ce of the fir­st cases of influen­za A (H1N1), which were iden­ti­fied by the Mexi­can Epi­de­mio­lo­gi­cal Sur­veil­lan­ce System.

Recen­tly, she said, with the epi­de­mic of Ebo­la virus in West Afri­ca, the work of epi­de­mio­lo­gists allo­wed each nation to deve­lop a respon­se plan and pre­vent the spread of this disea­se.

Dr. Mer­ce­des Juan said that this has been the result of work done over seve­ral years by the Net­work Trai­ning Pro­grams and Inter­ven­tion Epi­de­mio­lo­gy and Public Health, throu­gh the trai­ning of epi­de­mio­lo­gists in the world, streng­the­ning the capa­ci­ty of the inter­na­tio­nal public health poli­tics.

“Stu­den­ts who are trai­ned in the field of epi­de­mio­lo­gy, domi­na­te a com­pe­ten­ces for public health prac­ti­ces, and pro­vi­de a valua­ble public health ser­vi­ce to their coun­tries,” she said.

Final­ly, she repor­ted that the Resi­den­cy Pro­gram in Epi­de­mio­lo­gy of Mexi­co, has trai­ned 265 spe­cia­lists in its 30 years of exi­sten­ce.

Dr. Pablo Kuri Mora­les, Under­se­cre­ta­ry of Health Pre­ven­tion and Pro­mo­tion, explai­ned that Mexi­co was the third coun­try, after Cana­da and Thai­land star­ting in 1985, the resi­den­cy pro­gram in applied epi­de­mio­lo­gy.

Sin­ce then, Mexi­co has trai­ned more than 29 gene­ra­tions in this spe­cial­ty.

In his speech, Rosen­berg Merk, pre­si­dent of the Task For­ce for Glo­bal Health rei­te­ra­ted that if the­re is not an epi­de­mio­lo­gi­cal, sen­si­ti­ve and effec­ti­ve sur­veil­lan­ce system, a disea­se can beco­me a glo­bal cata­stro­phe.

Cur­ren­tly, the world faces a glo­bal epi­de­mic, such as non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble disea­ses, inju­ries and vio­len­ce.

“If we do not stop this epi­de­mic, a glo­bal disa­ster will be unlea­shed in eco­no­mies around the world, con­si­de­ring that health systems do not have the eco­no­mic capa­ci­ty to con­front it,” he said.

*Trai­ning Pro­grams in Epi­de­mio­lo­gy and Public Health Inter­ven­tions Net­work (TEPHINET) was crea­ted in 1997, is a pro­fes­sio­nal net­work of 55 field epi­de­mio­lo­gy trai­ning pro­grams (FETPs) around the world. TEPHINET aims to streng­then inter­na­tio­nal public health poli­tics capa­ci­ty by trai­ning field epi­de­mio­lo­gists, throu­gh an applied appren­ti­ce­ship pro­gram in dif­fe­rent coun­tries and regions.

Its mis­sion is to strength glo­bal public health poli­tics capa­ci­ty by sup­por­ting well-qua­li­fied pro­fes­sio­nals in field epi­de­mio­lo­gy throu­gh trai­ning and ser­vi­ce and net­wor­king oppor­tu­ni­ties.

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