Scenario-based outbreak response training: perspectives from a multidisciplinary trainee team

Authors

  • Peta Mantel Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, Australia
  • Shawn Vasoo Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore
  • Rolando Cruz Quezon City Health Department, Manila, Philippines
  • Dalva De Assis South America Regional Network, Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET), Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil; Tropical Medicine Research Centre, University of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
  • Abdurrahman Amin Faisal Directorate of Surveillance and Health Quarantine, Ministry of Health, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Humberto Jaime Regional Office for South Asia, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Komal Raj Rijal Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Sharon Salmon Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, Australia; World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines; UNSW Medicine and Health, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • Jocelyne Basseal Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2024.15.5.1116

Keywords:

disease outbreak, GOARN, deployment, training, infectious disease

Abstract

This Perspective is written by participants and a training faculty member in the GOARN Tier 2 outbreak scenario training held in New Delhi, India, in 2022, hosted by WHO’s Regional Offices for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific. It provides a general overview of the GOARN outbreak scenario training programme, participants' perspectives and suggestions for future programmes.

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Published

08-08-2024

How to Cite

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Mantel P, Vasoo S, Cruz R, De Assis D, Amin Faisal A, Jaime H, Raj Rijal K, Salmon S, Basseal J. Scenario-based outbreak response training: perspectives from a multidisciplinary trainee team. Western Pac Surveill Response J [Internet]. 2024 Aug. 8 [cited 2025 Jan. 21];15(5):3. Available from: https://ojs.wpro.who.int/ojs/index.php/wpsar/article/view/1116

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 5 (2024): Special Edition: Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN)

Section

Perspective

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