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Welcome to our New ProMED-EAFR Moderators

20th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

He is a researcher and senior lecturer at Somali National University (SNU) in Mogadishu since 2016. His research area mainly focuses on the theme of animal infectious diseases particularly zoonoses and antimicrobial resistant.

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Epidemiology Terms: A Glossary of Epidemiological Words

Gideon

Specifically, prevalence data was used by global health experts and epidemiologists to track the overall number of cases and understand how the disease was spreading. As of 2016, the mortality rate for HIV/AIDS was 38%. During the COVID pandemic, we saw these metrics used in practice all over the world.