2014, the topic of the conference was HIV and Viral Hepatitis: Challenges of Timely Testing and Care, and the main objectives were to provide the fields of HIV and viral hepatitis with the opportunity to learn from each other and to reflect on their experiences.
On the 13-14 October 2014, the first Coordination Committee meeting for ECDC’s Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses (FWD) Network took place in Stockholm.
ECDC Director Marc Sprenger addressed MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety regarding the ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa.
2014, the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) took place at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in the heart of the city.
Location:Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center, Stockholm, Sweden
The ECDC annual meeting of the European Influenza Surveillance Network (EISN) prepared in collaboration with the EISN Coordination Committee, brought together epidemiological and virological surveillance contact points and representatives from reference laboratories from the 31 EU/EEA Member States as well as participants from EU pre-accession countries, Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and involved international institutions.
ECDC hosted observers from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and the European Society for Clinical Virology (ESCV) for a week-long programme of seminars, activities and events under the ECDC Observership programme.
The meeting, which brought together National Focal Points for Microbiology and for Surveillance, allowed to review proposals for the second edition of the ECDC roadmap for integration of molecular typing into outbreak investigation and EU surveillance.
The ECDC National Microbiology Focal Points and National Surveillance Focal Points from EU/EEA countries convened to discuss the integration of genomic epidemiology into EU level surveillance.
ECDC is supporting a large number of targeted External Quality Assessment (EQA) schemes with voluntary participation by reference or primary laboratories, which are active members of EU surveillance networks