Michael DeWitt attended the 2024 International Field Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine course in Peru hosted by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and the EMERGE group(Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Emergentes y Cambio Climático) along with students and faculty from the University of Texas Medical Branch.
As part of this 10 day field experience, the group received training in epidemiology, entomology, diagnostics, field logistics, tropical medicine, and field epidemiology in Lima Peru. Then on the second day of the course, the group flew to Tumbes, Peru to continue their training. While in Tumbes, the group was introduced to the local public health infrastructure. Additionally, they conducted epidemiological investigations into a Dengue outbreak with the local health authorities. They also received training in many aspects into conducting a field investigation of an emerging pathogen including practical experience in:
- Setting mosquitto traps and identification of mosquito species
- Approaches to capture ticks and identification
- Approaches to capture, indentify, and test rodents include bats
- Setting up a field laboratory and data collection
- Geospatial analysis of outbreak data
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@online{dewitt2024,
author = {DeWitt, Michael},
title = {International {Field} {Epidemiology} and {Tropical}
{Medicine} in {Peru}},
date = {2024-06-30},
url = {https://wakeforestid.com/posts/2024-06-30-international-field-epidemiology/},
doi = {10.59350/h6nf1-8ww98},
langid = {en}
}