The Role of the Global Health Development/Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network and the Eastern Mediterranean Field Epidemiology Training Programs in Preparedness for COVID-19

Mohannad Al Nsour   ¹ , PhD ;   Haitham Bashier   ¹ , PhD ;   Abulwahed Al Serouri   ² , PhD ;   Elfatih Malik   ³ , MBBS ;   Yousef Khader   ⁴ , SCD ;   Khwaja Saeed   ⁵ , MSc ;   Aamer Ikram   ⁶ , PhD ;   Abdalla Mohammed Abdalla   ⁷ , MPH ;   Abdelmounim Belalia   ⁸ , PhD ;   Bouchra Assarag   ⁸ , PhD ;   Mirza Amir Baig   ⁹ , MPH ;   Sami Almudarra   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Kamal Arqoub   ¹¹ , MD ;   Shahd Osman   ¹² , PhD ;   Ilham Abu-Khader   ¹³ , MPH ;   Dana Shalabi   ¹³ , MBA ;   Yasir Majeed   ¹⁴ , FETP

¹ Global Health Development/Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, Amman, Jordan

² Yemen Field Epidemiology Training Program, Sana’a, Yemen

³ University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

⁴ Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

⁵ Afghanistan Field Epidemiology Training Program, Kabul, Afghanistan

⁶ National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan

⁷ Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan

⁸ National School of Public Health, Rabat, Morocco

⁹ Pakistan Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Islamabad, Pakistan

¹⁰ Saudi Field Epidemiology Training Program, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

¹¹ Jordan Field Epidemiology Training Program, Amman, Jordan

¹² Sudan Field Epidemiology Training Program, Khartoum, Sudan

¹³ Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, Amman, Jordan

¹⁴ Iraq Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq