The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) has launched a five-day, in-per­son train­ing work­shop un­der the Caribbean Re­gion­al Field Epi­demi­ol­o­gy and Lab­o­ra­to­ry Train­ing Pro­gramme (CR-FELTP) – Lev­el II, aimed at strength­en­ing pub­lic health re­sponse ca­pac­i­ty across the re­gion.

It runs from Mon­day through to Fri­day at the Kapok Ho­tel. The ini­tia­tive is be­ing deemed as a crit­i­cal part of CARPHA’s on­go­ing ef­forts to build re­gion­al re­silience against pub­lic health threats through work­force de­vel­op­ment.

This year’s FELTP Lev­el II co­hort in­cludes eleven (11) trainees from five CARPHA Mem­ber States—Ba­hamas, Grena­da, Guyana, Saint Vin­cent & the Grenadines, and Turks & Caicos Is­lands—rep­re­sent­ing key pub­lic health sec­tors, in­clud­ing epi­demi­ol­o­gy, sur­veil­lance, lab­o­ra­to­ry sci­ence, and en­vi­ron­men­tal health. Par­tic­i­pants will gain ad­vanced train­ing in dis­ease sur­veil­lance, out­break in­ves­ti­ga­tion, and epi­demi­o­log­i­cal da­ta analy­sis us­ing spe­cial­ized tools like Epi In­fo (a sta­tis­ti­cal soft­ware suite de­signed for epi­demi­o­log­i­cal da­ta analy­sis and dis­ease sur­veil­lance, de­vel­oped by the U.S. Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion - CDC).