Poster Session Title: Pediatric Vaccines
Central Asia Advanced Field Epidemiology Training Program, Kyrgyzstan
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Gulzada Dadanova is an epidemiologist at the Republican Center for Immunoprophylaxis of the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic. She graduated from the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy in 2009 with a Bachelor's degree in Medical and Preventive Medicine. In 2022, she was accepted into the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Central Asia Region Field Epidemiology and Training Program in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and completed her Master's degree in Applied Epidemiology at the S.D. Asfenov Kazakh National Medical University. S.D. Asfendiyarov.
After graduation, she worked as an epidemiologist at the Talas Regional Center for Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance. Since 2017, she has been working as an epidemiologist at the Republican Center for Immunoprophylaxis of the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Conducted activities to prevent and control outbreaks of a number of infectious diseases, including measles, rubella. She conducted trainings and seminars for medical workers, media briefings, and organized field visits to regional medical facilities. She was also the technical coordinator of the Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform project. Thanks to this project, more than 80% of vaccination rooms across the country were equipped with specialized cold chain equipment for vaccine storage.