In Kenya, diarrheal diseases resulting from contaminated food, water, and environmental conditions, cause more than 17,000 deaths among children under 5 years of age annually. Surveillance activities to detect and investigate enteric outbreaks in resource-limited rural western Kenya have been hampered by inadequately trained and coordinated epidemiology, environmental health, and laboratory workforces. To bridge this gap, we trained in-service frontline officers on enteric disease outbreak investigation and response.
