Conference Abstract | Volume 8, Abstract ELIC2025358 (Poster 021) | Published: 30 Jul 2025
Isabel Inês Araújo1,2,3,&, Mohsin Sidat3,4, António Pedro Delgado1,3, Paulo Ferrinho1,3
1Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Cabo Verde, Praia – Cabo Verde, 2One Health Research Centre, Universidade de Cabo Verde, Praia, Cabo Verde, 3Global Health & Tropical Medicina, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 4Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Moçambique
&Corresponding author: Isabel Inês Araújo, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Cabo Verde, Praia, Cabo Verde, Email: iaraujo@unicv.cv
Received: 11 Apr 2025, Accepted: 09 Jul 2025, Published: 30 Jul 2025
Domain: Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Workforce Development
Keywords: Field Epidemiology, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe, One Health, National Health Systems
©Isabel Inês Araújo et al. Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health (ISSN: 2664-2824). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article: Isabel Inês Araújo et al., Scientific research in Field Epidemiology Training in Cabo Verde. Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health. 2025;8(Conf Proc 5):00165. https://doi.org/10.37432/JIEPH-CONFPRO5-00165
An Africa Europe consortium was awarded EDCTP funding to implement a Portuguese language Master in Field Epidemiology (MFE) at the University of Cabo Verde. Of the 15 successful applicants [6 from Cabo Verde (CV), 6 from Guiné-Bissau (GB) and 3 from São Tomé e Príncipe (STP)], all completed the theoretical and practical training, obtaining the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Field Epidemiology. All opted to continue their training to complete a Master’s degree in Field Epidemiology. The aim of this paper is to present the topics for their dissertations.
The research topics had to be relevant to field epidemiology, focused on the national health systems of the countries, emphasizing a One Health approach and giving priority to antimicrobial resistance. Topics were selected by the students from a list proposed by the MFE coordinators. Students were free to choose outside the list. Each student was allocated a tutorial team, preferably with one Capeverdian teacher and an international supervisor, preferably from the sudent’s country; at least one the tutors had to be a PhD holder.
The topics addressed: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and HIV/Aids in all countries; Information Systems/epidemiological surveillance and Vaccination in CV and GB; Vector borne diseases (VBD) in CV and STP; COVID-19 and international health regulations (IHR) in GB. All dissertations‘ proposals were discussed and approved during a seminar in CV, during September 2024. All were submitted to the respective national bioethical committees. Since then, 7 dissertations have been submitted to the Uni-CV: on Information Systems (CV and GB), IHR/COVID-19, HIV/Aids (CV), VBD (CV), vaccination (GB) and AMR (GB). The expectation is that all will be submitted and defended by July 2025.
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