Branch Outbreak Response Team (BORT) Training package 2022

Audience: Branch staff and senior volunteers

Session Length: 1h

Overall purpose: To convey the importance of cholera as a disease of health risk and economic disruption, and the rationale behind a response team aimed at interrupting cholera transmission in resource poor environments.

Objectives: By the end of the session participants will understand:

• How a branch cholera transmission interruption team responds to outbreaks alongside health facilities and district health authorities.
• The rationale behind the Branch Outbreak Response Team
• How the locations of intervention are prioritized, and how the BORT will assess risk and interrupt transmission.
• How the responsibilities of the team are designed into the structure of this training course.
• The health structure in your country and how the RC fits into it