During their two-year fellowship, ECDC Fellowship Programme fellows are placed in different training sites.
Training sites selected to host a fellow are those with responsibilities for communicable disease surveillance, epidemiology, and public health advice. Selection criteria include an assessment of the training site’s potential for the practice of intervention epidemiology or public health microbiology and the quality of training supervision available for the fellows.
On 17 January 2024, an online training on the EpiPulse platform was organised as part of the ECDC Accession Support to the Western Balkans and Türkiye.
On 23 November 2023, ECDC organised the first face-to-face MediPIET Alumni Network meeting, which took place during the annual European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) in Barcelona, Spain.
Rubella is a mild febrile rash illness caused by rubella virus. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets (the virus is present in throat secretions). It affects mainly, but not only, children and when pregnant women are infected, it may result in malformation of the foetus. Humans are the only reservoir of infection.
The eighth ‘Exchange of Experts’ programme visit for public health experts from the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) partner countries took place on 28 and 29 November 2023 at the Public Health Agency of Sweden.