Public Health Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding COVID-19: The Impact of the Field Epidemiology Training Program in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Sahar Sami   ¹ , MPH, MD ;   Faris Lami   ² , PhD ;   Hiba Abdulrahman Rashak   ³ , MSc ;   Mohannad Al Nsour   ⁴ , MD, MSc, PhD ;   Alaa Eid   ¹ , MD ;   Yousef Khader   ⁵ , SCD ;   Salma Afifi Sr   ¹ , MD, MPH ;   Maisa Elfadul   ⁶ , MD ;   Yasser Ghaleb   ⁷ , MSc ;   Hajer Letaief   ⁸ , MD ;   Nissaf Ben Alaya   ⁹ , PhD ;   Aamer Ikram   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Hashaam Akhtar   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Abdelaziz Barkia Sr   ¹² , MPH ;   Hana Ahmad Taha   ⁴ , PhD ;   Reema Adam   ¹³ , MAES ;   Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed Sr   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Sami Almudarra   ¹⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Mohamed Hassany   ¹ , MD ;   Hanaa Abu El Sood   ¹ , MD, MSc ;   Fazal ur Rahman   ¹⁶ , FCPS ;   Falah Abdul-kader Saaed   ¹⁷ , MD ;   Mohammed Sameer Hlaiwah   ¹⁷ , MD

¹ Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt

² University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

³ Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq

⁴ Global Health Development|The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network, Amman, Jordan

⁵ Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan

⁶ Public Health Institute, Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan

⁷ Ministry of Public Health and Population, Sanaa, Yemen

⁸ National Observatory of New and Emerging Diseases, Tunis, Tunisia

⁹ Tunisia Field Epidemiology Training Program, Tunis, Tunisia

¹⁰ National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan

¹¹ Yusra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

¹² Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco

¹³ Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan

¹⁴ Afghanistan Field Epidemiology Training Program, Kabol, Afghanistan

¹⁵ Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

¹⁶ Medical Unit 1 Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

¹⁷ Al-Rusafa Health Directorate, Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq