Second year
Central Asia Field Epidemiology Training Program, Uzbekistan
Mr. Yunis Tursinov graduated from Nukus Medical Institute. After this, he worked with the Ministry of Health’s Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Karakalpakstan and also with the Republican Television Agency. In 2021, he joined the Central Asia Advanced Field Epidemiology Training Program based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. As an FETP resident he supported with several outbreaks investigations, including measles, rubella, Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever and others. Mr. Tursinov was on the team that rolled out COVID-19 vaccination in Uzbekistan. He was also the epidemiologist the interviewed the country’s first COVID-19 patient.