Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP)
State and District Surveillance Officer
Two Week Course Content - 2008

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Week One

Day One

· Participative Session: Introduction to Surveillance

· Participative Session: Data and Central Tendency

· Participative Session: Measures of Disease Frequency

Day Two

• Participative Session: IDSP at the District Level
• Participative Session: Surveillance Data Collection
• Participative Session: Managing Surveillance Data
• Participative Session: Data Presentation

Day Three

• Participative Session: Analysis of Surveillance Data
• Exercise: Malaria in Darjeeling
• Practical: Analysis of surveillance data (Chikungunya in Kadapa)
• Practical: Table 1: Kadapa district 2001 census data
• Practical: Figure 1: Map of Kadapa district

Day Four

• Participative Session: Detection of Unusual Events
• Computer Practical: Analysis of surveillance data (Chikungunya in Kadapa)
• Preparation for Field Exercise

Day Five

• Field Exercise: Collection of Surveillance Data

Day Six

Field Exercise: Collection of Surveillance Data

Week Two

Day One

• Participative Session: Outbreak Investigation
• Participative Session: Laboratory Role in Investigations
• Outbreak Case Study #1: Outbreak detection
• Outbreak Case Study #2: Working with the laboratory on an outbreak

Day Two

• Practical: Review of the results of the analysis of the field exercise
• Outbreak Case Study #3: Hypothesis generation on the basis of time, place and person information (Computer practical)
• Outbreak Case Study #4: Hypothesis testing with analytical epidemiology
• Participative Session: Formulating Recommendations

Day Three

• Computer practical: Graphs
• Outbreak Case Study #5: Formulating recommendations
• Computer Practical: IDSP Data Entry
• Participative Session: Communicating Investigation Results

Day Four

• Outbreak Case Study #6: Communicating recommendations
• Computer Practical: IDSP Data Analysis
• Participative Session: Monitoring and Evaluation

Day Five

• Participative Session: Writing Papers and Reports
• Outbreak Case Study #7: Report writing
• Outbreak Case Study #8: Working with other sectors
• Laboratory practical

Day Six

• Participative Session: Summary of the course
• Participative Session: IDSP Finance Management

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