ICAP at Columbia University, a global health leader situated within the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, seeks residents for the Eastern Europe and South Caucasus FETP Intermediate program.
The FETP program will commence in May 2025, and will include residents representing the Ministries of Health (MOH) and Ministries of Agriculture (MOA) from Moldova, Armenia, and Ukraine as well as representatives of private health sector in Georgia. We expect to recruit up to four residents from each country, including two from the MOH and two from the MOA, where feasible, to embrace the OneHealth approach.
The program consists of five one or two-weeklong in-person didactic workshops conducted in various countries of the region and the fieldworks. The workshops include training courses on public health surveillance, basic and advanced epidemiology, public health communication, technical report writing, data analyses and presentation of the field study conducted as a group project and using statistical program for data entry and analysis. The fieldwork will include surveillance system assessments, investigation of outbreaks, review, and response to public health emergencies, and conducting routine epidemiological studies.
Participants are expected to continue with their full-time jobs during the program. The program will be conducted in Russian and English. All travel and accommodation will be coordinated by ICAP and funded by the EESC FETP-I program.
To view the full job description, please click the following link: 
FETP announcement for residents.docx
All interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications and upload all the required documents by February 15, 2025 through ICAP website.
This position is contingent upon funding availability.
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