Rapid cultural, economic and technological developments have brought about dramatic changes to Saudi community with regard to causes and proportions of diseases as well as mortality rates. These developments have led to a change in the pattern of diseases from infectious diseases, which were previously prevalent to chronic diseases, malignant tumors, mental disorders, road accidents, in addition to the emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
The Ministry's Agency for Public Health seeks to continuously develop health services in line with global scientific developments. In this regard, .....
Health in Saudi Arabia
Due to the necessity of the Ministry of Health to support the preventive medicine divisions, either within the Ministry's Agency for Public Health departments or in health regions, with highly qualified and well-trained Saudi professionals in the field of epidemics detection and control who can lead in the development of preventive programs for communicable and non-communicable diseases.
What is Saudi FETP?
The idea of launching a program for post-graduate studies on epidemiology came into being in 1409 (1989). Thus, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and King Saud University in Riyadh initiated the Field Epidemiology Training Program, now affiliated to the Ministry's Agency for Public Health. So far, the program has graduated 28 batches of the field ......
