Emergency response	“Being fit for the field, i.e. not everyone who has completed the program should be in the field”
	“Specific things like bioterrorism and natural disasters and hurricane response”
	“Critical skills to data analysis and collection during an emergency, rarely having a denominator, working with dirty data, working with MoH's [Ministry of Health] without statistical packages”
	“Did not learn enough about the different approaches and methods that are/should be used in an emergency setting vs a regular ongoing surveillance or outbreak response setting”
	“Thinking systems in the middle of an emergency”
	“A session on the realities of an emergency situation would be useful”
	“There was minimal relevant to emergency response or low resource settings”
Response structure	“How humanitarian responses are structured—what is happening around you in such a response and concrete feedback about where epi skills and information can serve those components
	“There were no emergency response topics covered in my epi training… no mention of IHR [International Health Regulations]” “
Roles and responsibilities	Role of Field Epidemiologist during Humanitarian crisis still confuses me”
	“Even at the advanced level and despite being "on the ground", does not have the capacity of those trained in the roles of the epidemiologist in emergency situations or health crises, in rapid interventions”
	“In a situation with an environmental disaster (e.g. air pollution), the epidemiologist has no preparation on his role in such an event. Other areas: Mass casualty, major water contamination, exposure to chemicals due to explosions, etc... responders are prepared, but the epidemiologist is not”