An Analysis of Interventions Presented at the 2015 CDC EIS Conference and the 2015 TEPHINET Conference

Global Field Epidemiology Training Programs, the Training Programs in Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET), and the American CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) programs are the premier training programs for epidemiology and evidence-based healthcare research in the developing world. They concentrate almost exclusively on observational epidemiology. Fields of health services research that concentrate on interventions such as randomized controlled trials or operations research are seldom taught and neither the CDC EIS Program nor TEPHINET have training modules in interventional epidemiology (nor economics) We believe this is a mistake; unless interventions are taught and subsequently performed, health and healthcare are not improved. We analyzed the oral presentations of the 2015 EIS Conference (2015 EISC) and the 2015 TEPHINET Conference (2015 TEPHINETC) to determine how frequently interventions were performed. Abdul Rauf Shirzad, S.A. Hussain, George Schmid