Designed to meet the needs of healthcare professionals and nurses working anywhere in the world, whether you’re relatively new to infection prevention and control or have just moved into a leadership role. One of many topics covered in the course are applied microbiology, decontamination, antimicrobial resistance antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention, and control practice, risk and patient safety.

It covers the fundamentals of Healthcare Administration, Medico-Legal Issues, Conflict Management, Healthcare Policies & Regulations, Hospital Enterprises Management, Quality Assurance, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Legislation, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Operations Management, Management of Hospitals, Healthcare Planning, Administration of Hospital, Health Management, Hospital Safety & Risk Management, and many more.

The MPH in Public Health Informatics program is focused on developing experts in the systematic application of information technology to public health practice, research, and learning.

It strengthen expertise in the management and utilization of health information, including electronic medical records, which is critical to the success of accountable care organizations and the health system in ensuring better health outcomes with increased cost-efficiency.

This degree focuses on equipping students on how to tackle major health problems at a global, national and local level, as well as understanding how to reduce health inequalities through coordinated actions.

It also encouraged students to take on a work placement to enhance experience in the professional and practical skills in the workplace.

It grant the opportunity to work with a local authority or NGO and work on an aspect of public health one is interested in, working on a research project at the same.

FETP is an in-service program focused on training district and national public health workers in public health emergency response and strengthening Sierra Leone’s public health surveillance system. The program integrates 25% didactic learning with 75% field work.

Course topics include M&E models and frameworks, indicators, design and deployment of M&E plans, quantitative and qualitative data collection, data verification methods, M&E assessment designs, and ethical considerations.

It capacitates participants with the required tools to develop an M&E framework tailored to the needs of their particular health program and the knowledge to apply it rigorously in field settings.

1. Hold district level discussions on IPC and WASH as well as contribute to review of standard operating procedures and training manuals for IPC, as needed
2. Quarterly assessments on status of IPC implementation in assigned PHUs and use findings to identify gaps and develop quality improvement plans accordingly
3. Outbreak investigations through active and passive case search for notifiable disease
4. Collect and analyze data obtained from interviews, surveys, and sample tests to determine the cause of a health problem
5. Traveling to sites to research, observe and study the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases
6. Interacting with people to collect disease-related data through field research, observation, questionnaires and studies
7. Organize programs to educate the public on ways to prevent disease contamination and spread
8. Utilize specialized statistical computer software in analyzing and interpreting epidemiological data
9. District health planning, including community participation, local government, and intersectoral coordination and collaboration in the implementation of Primary Health Care Services.
10. District health administration and the management of all community health programs.
11. Organizing surveillance for healthcare-associated infections, providing advice and leadership in outbreak investigation, developing and delivering training on IPC to healthcare workers, Auditing the quality and effectiveness of healthcare facility environmental cleaning, Auditing the quality and effectiveness of disinfection and sterilization practices, and Implementing local, national or international best-practice guidelines for the prevention of infection transmission in clinical care.
12. Facilitate Cross Border Surveillance meetings
13. Provide strategic and technical leadership on improving Surveillance activities in line with IDSR strategy

1. Providing technical guidance to implementing partners on the implementation of health care
activities
2. Working with sub grantees, district leaders and other community groups to ensure the proper
implementation of the sustaining health facility improvement project,
3. Coordinate district maintenance and preventive maintenance meetings regularly to review the health facilities maintenance and preventive maintenance issues,
4. Lead and guide the implementation of project related training and data quality management activities in line with project strategy, objective and activity plan,
5. Collaborating with the district leaders in adapting existing and developing new training curriculum on maintenance and preventive maintenance activities
6. Providing technical leadership and support for monitoring
7. Data collection and knowledge management of the project and monitoring and evaluating towards annual work plan, expected outputs, including selecting and monitoring progress in meeting indicator.

1. Conducting community visits, focus group discussion with beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries to receive feedback on project activities.
2. Consenting, collecting and managing baseline midline and endline quantitative and qualitative research data for the project.
3. Collection of data needed for project output and outcome and development of MEAL packages for the project.
4. Focal point for managing feedback received and ensuring timely and appropriate follow up on project activities.
5. Support Project MEAL coordinator and Project Managers with conducting assessments as needed.
6. Supporting project field staffs to ensure projects are carried out with participation from all affected communities (including children) and sheared the information with affected communities.
7. Work closely with field staffs to collect data and implement activities to support beneficiary accountability. 8. Support beneficiary accountability in the project in keeping with the accountability Framework, ensure prompt follow-up on feedback receive.
9. Lead on data entry and management related to the project (beneficiary data, distribution plans, distributions reports, and post-distribution monitoring data) and ensures all relevant documentation is properly managed.
10. Support the MEAL coordinator in ensuring evaluation is done in line with SCI standard for the project.
11. Ensure the documentation of program learning outcomes (case studies, photos, lessons learnt, etc.) with effective information management system.
12. Participate in the documentation and dissemination of this learning to ensure that good practice is understood and adopted and information exchanged.
13. Establishes clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and performance. Support committees to propose solutions to problems identified, and to implement and assess the progress of solutions.

1. Focal point for training rollout to VDC’s, CHW’s, PSSG’s and FMC’s in unison with PHU staff.
2. Focal point for the daily monitoring/supervision of organization’s Social Behavior Change activities.
3. Focal point for networking with key stakeholders to ease project implementation.
4. Focal support point in the planning, strategy conception and new program design processes.
5. Focal support point for the formation, restructuring and operations of community level structures.
6. Focal point for the identification of training needs in communities and Public Health Units. Focal point for the rollout of training on emergency preparedness.
7. Focal point for the preparation of an outbreak preparedness plan showing trigger measures, communication and community coordination reporting to the nearest PHU.
8.Focal point for the organization of weekly health sessions for community health workers with emphasis on the IDSR targeted diseases.
8.Focal point for identifying key informants, stakeholders in operational communities and organize community level BCC activities.
9.Focal point for providing psychosocial support to individuals admitted into health facilities and community care center’s