Core/Focus Areas of Applied Epidemiology Support for Disease Prevention & Control
[of HIV, STD, TB & Viral Hepatitis (non-enteric)]
 
  • Epidemiology Support for Prevention and Care Program Planning, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (incl. Epidemiologic data support for planning);
  • Design, Conduct, Interpretation, Summarizing/Reporting and Translation/Utilization (of Findings) of Studies on Monitoring of Disease Burden/Risk and Interventions, and Evaluation/ Assessment of Population-level Outcomes (Public Health surveillance: incl. surveillance of risk &/or behavioral factors; disease incidence, burden and progression; early outbreak detection linked to social network investigations/partner counseling and referral services (PCRS); linkage to prevention and care services) and other related  disease burden/risk assessment Epidemiologic research studies;
  • Design, Conduct, Interpretation, Summarizing/Reporting and Translation/Utilization (of Findings) of Disease Intervention Epidemiology Research and Development Studies:
    • Disease Control & Prevention Research: incl. population level research on biomedical (vaccines and drugs), behavioral and social interventions; linkage of early case finding to prevention and treatment/care for 'positives', e.g. voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) and partner counseling and referral services (PCRS); 
    • Health Services Research: Outcome evaluation of health intervention programs and health service delivery systems [incl. scale-up of HIV (& related disease) prevention and treatment (incl. antiretrovirals) programs]; assessment of health service needs and utilization; service gap analyses; assessment of health service quality; etc;
  • Statistics, Data Management, and Information Technology Methods Support for Surveillance (Disease Burden/Risk Assessment) and Intervention Epidemiology Research & Development Studies (incl. Outcome Evaluation and Health Services Utilization/Service Gaps);
  • Laboratory Support for HIV Surveillance (Disease Burden/Risk Assessment), Intervention Epidemiology (Interventions Research & Development Studies, incl. Vaccine, Drug, Outcome Evaluation and Health Services Utilization/Service Gap Studies), and HIV Screening & Diagnostics (Diagnostics Research & Development Studies)
  • Quality Assurance, Continuing Education, and Research Participants Protections through Peer-Review of Applied  Epidemiology work on the above-listed core/focus areas (Peer-Reviewed Journal, Institutional Review Board, etc)
  • Applied Epidemiology Capacity Development: Development of problem-based and in-service ("on-the-job") Applied Epidemiology training programs on the above-listed core/focus areas.
These core/focus areas in applied Epidemiology are shared by: 

-iHASE Collaboration Centers/Units/Groups,

-iHASE/jHASE Applied Epidemiology Fellowships/In-Service Training,

-jHASE Quality Assurance and Continuing Education through an International Open-Access Peer-Reviewed Journal