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Johan Giesecke - ECDC, Chair of ESCAIDE Scientific Committee
Professor Johan Giesecke is Chief Scientist at the ECDC since 2005 and heads the disease programmes of the Centre in the Office of the Chief Scientist. From a background as infectious disease clinician, his research interests include: epidemic modeling, HIV/STIs and late sequelae of acute infections. He has published some 150 scientific papers, has written a textbook on infectious disease epidemiology and co-edited another. |
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Lorenzo Pezzoli – President of the EPIET Alumni Network (EAN)
Lorenzo holds a Degree in Veterinary Medicine and a PhD from the University of Turin. Between 2006 and 2008, as an EPIET Fellow (Cohort 12), he was based at the Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections in London. He currently works as an epidemiology consultant for different international organizations in the area of monitoring and evaluation of vaccination activities mainly in low- and middle-income countries. Since 2009 Lorenzo has been the President of the EPIET Alumni Network (EAN), one of institutions co-organizing ESCAIDE and the EPIET Seminar before that. |
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Aftab Jasir - ECDC/EUPHEM
Aftab is an associate professor, expert public health microbiologist and chief scientific coordinator of European Public Health Microbiology training programme (EUPHEM) at ECDC. In addition to many years professional work as a university teacher and coordinating European projects, Aftab has worked in many public health bodies/organisations (Lund University hospital, Sweden; Health Protection Agency, UK; German Streptococcal Reference Laboratory, Aachen; and CDC, US). Specialisations include health care associated infections and antibiotic resistance, epidemiology of infectious diseases, monitoring and evaluating QA/QC systems, molecular typing, and vaccine and antimicrobial drug development. Aftab is a member of many scientific societies and international advisory boards. |
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Ines Steffens - ECDC
Ines is the Editor-in-Chief of Eurosurveillance journal. Ines joined ECDC in 2006 as Managing Editor for Eurosurveillance, and between 2007-2011 set up ECDC’s Scientific Communication Section. Before Joining ECDC, Ines was Editor-in-Chief for Germany’s national epidemiological and public health bulletin, the Epidemiologisches Bulletin at Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. Ines is a trained internist, with broad clinical experience and expertise in infectious diseases. She holds a masters degree in public health, and has a special interest in communication-related issues. |
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Howard Needham - ECDC
Howard is the Scientific Liaison Officer at the ECDC. Since 2008, Howard has been coordinator of the ESCAIDE conference and scientific programme under the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee. Howard has a background in biological sciences and has held policy roles in the UK Government and the European Commission in animal health issues and zoonoses, including notably transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and avian influenza. Howard joined the ECDC as the influenza programme coordinator in 2006, and took up his current position in 2008. |
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Andrea Ammon - ECDC
Andrea Ammon, MD, MPH is the Deputy to the Director and Head of Resource Management and Coordination Unit at the ECDC. Prior to joining ECDC, Dr Ammon served in several roles at the Robert Koch-Institute, in Berlin, Germany, most recently as Head of Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles related to her work. |
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Panayotis T. Tassios – University of Athens, Greece (ESCMID representative)
P.T. Tassios is Assistant Professor in Molecular Microbiology at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research focuses on the molecular typing of bacterial strains and their antimicrobial drug resistance mechanisms, to assist epidemiological investigations and infection control. He is also active in lifelong teaching, on his scientific interests as well as on scientific writing, aided by his experience as Associate Editor of several journals. Panayotis represents the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) on the Scientific Committee. |
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Mira Kojouharova - NCIPD, Bulgaria (AF Representative)
Mira is the Deputy Director of the National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Head of the Department Epidemiology and Communicable Disease Surveillance. Mira’s professional domain of expertise focuses on Epidemiology and the prevention and control of communicable diseases, She holds a professorship, and leads research and teaching in the field of post-graduate education in epidemiology, surveillance and control of communicable diseases and practical work related to the surveillance of communicable diseases in Bulgaria. Mira’s research interests are particularly focused on influenza and acute respiratory diseases in adults and children, poliomyelitis and viral hepatitis. Mira is an ECDC Advisory Forum (AF) member, and represents the ECDC Advisory Forum in the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee. |
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Arnold Bosman - ECDC
Arnold is a Public Health Specialist, trained in the Netherlands, focused on providing specialised training in Intervention Epidemiology to public health professionals. He is a member of the EPIET Scientific Conference committee. Currently he is a manager of Public Health Training at ECDC aiming to establish an effective network of training in applied public health (e.g. epidemiology, public health microbiology) in order to strengthen the work force in the EU. |
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Thea Kølsen Fischer – SSI (NMFP representative)
Thea is a public health virologist in the Dept. of Microbiology Diagnostics and Virology at the Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Denmark. She heads the Virology Surveillance and Research Unit at SSI and is an associate Professor at the Department of International Health and Immunology at the University of Copenhagen.
Thea specialised in epidemiology and laboratory outbreak management in Puero Rico (norovirus), Jamaica (rotavirus) and Angola (Marburgvirus) while completing the Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS) training program (2003-2005) at CDC, and has been involved in population-based studies of common viruses such as rotavirus and HIV in Africa and Asia. She holds a medical research doctoral degree (DMSc) within public health virology (combining epidemiology, molecular profiling and vaccinology).
Thea represents the ECDC National Microbiology Focal points (NMFP) in the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee. |
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Andreas Jansen – ECDC
Andreas is a medical doctor who worked as an infectious disease clinician and HIV specialist in Germany. From 2005-2006 he was a FETP fellow at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, and he joined ECDC in 2009. He is currently the Head of the Scientific Advice Coordination Section, responsible for scientific advice procedures and methodologies, and for evidence-based public health. |
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Yvan J Hutin – ECDC/EPIET
Yvan is the Chief Coordinator of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET). After an MD and a residency in hepato-gastroenterology, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) of the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As part of his public health career, he worked in Burkina Faso, Uganda and at the World Health Organization in Geneva, India and China. His areas of expertise include epidemiology and prevention of viral hepatitis and Field Epidemiology Training Programmes (FETPs) |
Andrew Amato- ECDC
Andrew is deputy head of Surveillance and Response Support Unit and Head of Surveillance at ECDC. Andrew was formally
Head of the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology of the University of Malta Medical School, and prior to joining ECDC, had extensive experience working in the international public health field with UNAIDS, WHO, the World Bank, UNICEF and UNDP, mainly focusing on working on HIV/AIDS/STI issues in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. |
Katharina Alpers - RKI, Germany (TEPHINET representative)
Katharina is the Coordinator for German PAE (Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE) (German Field Epidemiology Training Programme, FETP) and is based at the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI) in Berlin. She is also the European Regional Director of TEPHINET (Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network), a global network of field epidemiology training programs. Katharina represents TEPHINET in the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee. |
Fortunato (Paolo) D’Ancona – ISS, Italy (ETSF representative)
Paolo is a Doctor and Communicable disease epidemiologist at the National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion at the Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy. Among several activities, Paolo leads the Italian Network on the surveillance of Antimicrobial resistance, and is project leader for the VENICE II project that support vaccine programmes in the EU. Paolo is also training site supervisor for the EPIET programme at Instituto Superiore di Sanita, and is Chair of the EPIET Training Site Forum (ETSF). Paolo represents the ETSF in the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee. |
Marc Struelens - ECDC
Marc is the Chief Microbiologist at ECDC. He is former President of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and Professor of Medical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. Marc has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 20 book chapters across many disciplines, including molecular epidemiology and control of nosocomial infections, and antimicrobial resistance. He has served as editor of several international scientific journals, been a member of several national and international advisory boards, European Union (EU)-supported research and public health networks, and has served as consultant to the WHO and EU. |
Frank Van Loock – European Commission
Frank is a policy officer in the Health Threats Unit (C3) within DG SANCO at the European Commission. Frank has a long standing interest and involvement in communicable disease prevention. He was one of the founders of the EPIET training programme, and remains professionally engaged in policies and activities to address EU health threats, preparedness and health security. | |
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