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Table 2 Employment of MPH graduates of the South Africa Field Epidemiology Training Program

From: South Africa field epidemiology training program: developing and building applied epidemiology capacity, 2007–2016

Location

MPH Graduates

Population*

FETP Trained Epidemiologists

n

%

(in millions)

(per 200,000 population)

South Africa

59

89

55.6

0.212

 National-Governmental

21

32

55.6

0.076

 Provincial Health Agency - All

17

26

NA

 

 Northern Cape

2

3

1.2

0.333

 Limpopo

4

6

5.8

0.138

 Eastern Cape

4

6

7.0

0.114

 Free State

1

1.5

2.8

0.071

 North West

1

1.5

3.7

0.054

 Mpumalanga

1

1.5

4.3

0.047

 Western Cape

1

1.5

6.3

0.032

 Gauteng

2

3

13.4

0.030

 KwaZulu-Natal

1

1.5

11.1

0.018

 Subtotal: National or Provincial Health Agency

38

58

55.6

0.137

 NGO

18

27

NA

 

 Academia

3

5

NA

 

Outside South Africa

7

11

NA

 

Total

66**

100

  
  1. NGO Non-governmental Organization
  2. *2016 populations estimates from Statistics South Africa (http://www.statssa.gov.za/)
  3. **Includes only employed MPH graduates as of May 2017