{"id":210841,"date":"2025-10-22T20:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-field-epidemiology-is-crucial-for-public-health-emergencies\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:11:01","slug":"mozambique-field-epidemiology-is-crucial-for-public-health-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-field-epidemiology-is-crucial-for-public-health-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Field Epidemiology Is Crucial for Public Health Emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Maputo \u2014 Sofia Viegas, Deputy Director-General of Mozambique&#8217;s National Health Institute (INS), believes that field epidemiology plays a crucial role in strengthening the country&#8217;s preparedness and response to public health emergencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">According to Viegas, who was speaking on Tuesday at the opening of the 3rd Scientific Conference on Epidemiology Training Programmes (FETP), in Maputo, field epidemiology is crucial as the world faces increasingly complex challenges in the health sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;We live&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510220546.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Sofia Viegas, Deputy Director-General of Mozambique&#8217;s National Health Institute (INS), believes that field epidemiology plays a crucial role in strengthening the country&#8217;s preparedness and response to public health emergencies. According to Viegas, who was speaking on Tuesday at the opening of the 3rd Scientific Conference on Epidemiology Training Programmes (FETP), in Maputo, field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7774,11457,39524,6160,5731,4704,682,257,5751,254],"class_list":["post-210841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crucial","tag-emergencies","tag-epidemiology","tag-field","tag-health","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}