The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 require that all countries have the ability to detect, assess, report, and respond to public health events. Ensuring the health security of Zambia and the world at large depends on a skilled public health workforce in line with the IHR 2005, the Africa We 33 Want and the African Union’s Health Strategy 2016-2030. One of the core elements WHO Joint External Evaluation measures capacity to comply with the IHR 2005, is having a field epidemiology training program; specifically having one field epidemiologist per 200,000 populations. The main aim of the Zambia Field Epidemiology Training Program (Zambia FETP), within the pillar, is to strengthen field epidemiology capacity and effectively contribute to addressing epidemics and other major public health problems in Zambia. The Zambia FETP is an applied epidemiology training program designed to strengthen public health capacity within ZNPHI and the Ministry of Health. Zambia is currently running Frontline and Advanced FEP. Frontline FETP’s focuses on district-level health security while the Advanced FETP focuses on national level health security. This mirrors the public health surveillance system in Zambia. The mandate is facilitated through the following functions performed by the cluster which involve to;