A guide for conducting Ebola disease outbreak case investigation and contact tracing in resource-limited settings

In this special supplement to the Pan African Medical Journal, we present another important set of case studies produced by the Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program (UPHFP), the capacity-building arm of the Uganda National Institute of Public Health (UNIPH). This edition brings out three (3) new case studies that guide epidemiologists to carry out case investigations and contact tracing during Ebola Disease outbreaks or other viral hemorrhagic fever epidemics in resource-limited settings. This set of case studies lays out a step-by-step process of conducting epidemiological investigations in real-life scenarios in Uganda. These case studies and other future ones prepared by the UNIPH can be accessed by public health professionals and epidemiologists' trainers including Field Epidemiology Training Programs in Africa and other resource-limited settings.