BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1444354
The Africa Centres for Disease Control Public Health Emergency Management Fellowship: Insights from the Inaugural Cohort
Provisionally accepted
Mesfin Wossen Getaneh1*
Albert Paschal2
Rejoice Kudirat Luka-Lawal3*
MARTIN KUKENZIKILA KUTUBANA4,5
Joseph Anderson Bunting-Graden6
Esmeraldo Ezembro7Soransora Diba Tadicha8
Paulin N Essone9Simon Juma Magodi10
Anebonam Uchena Patrick10Wessam Mankoula10
Womi-Eteng Oboma Eteng10- 1Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- 2National Public Health Emergency Operations Centre, Ministry of Public Health, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- 3Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Abuja, Nigeria
- 4Other, Kinishasa, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- 5Veterinary services, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Democratic Republic of Congo, kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- 6Ministry of Health and Sanitation (Sierra Leone), Freetown, Sierra Leone
- 7Ministry of Health (Mozambique), Maputo, Mozambique
- 8Ministry of Health (Kenya), Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- 9Other, Libreville, Gabon
- 10Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Public health emergencies are a major health challenge for the African continent, most especially because of the burden of disease and the limited health workforce capacity. The African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has taken a strategic move towards addressing this workforce gap with implementation of the inaugural cohort of the Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Fellowship. This initiative aimed to provide all African Member States (MS) with trained personal in emergency management. We here describe the different critical components of this program. This fellowship comprised six well established sections including advisory committee (from several countries and divers organizations), a rigorous selection process, eleven weeks of in-person classes with validated materials, several field deployments in countries with ongoing emergency crisis, projects and mentorship programs. The PHEM fellowship is an opportunity for African countries to improve their workforce and increase their preparedness to response to potential outbreaks.
Keywords: Public Health Emergency management fellowship, workforce development, emergency preparedness and response, Africa CDC, Health systems strengthening
Received: 24 Jul 2024; Accepted: 19 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Getaneh, Paschal, Luka-Lawal, KUKENZIKILA KUTUBANA, Bunting-Graden, Ezembro, Tadicha, N Essone, Magodi, Patrick, Mankoula and Eteng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Mesfin Wossen Getaneh, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Rejoice Kudirat Luka-Lawal, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Abuja, Nigeria
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