Looking at finished and ongoing modelling projects sponsored by ECDC and other EU funders such ad DG Research and the Public Health Programme.2) Discussing what European Union mechanisms for communicable disease modelling networking would be useful in the future.
The chikungunya virus outbreak that occurred in 2007 in northern Italy (Emilia-Romagna region) prompted the development of a large scale monitoring system of the population density of Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894), comparable at the provincial and municipal levels. In 2007, egg density data presented an aggregated distribution (VMR >1) and Taylor's power law was applied to calculate the minimum number of ovitraps needed to obtain the prefixed precision levels: D=0.2 in the areas where the chikungunya epidemic occurred and D=0.3 in all the other urban areas >600 ha.
A pre-EUPHA conference workshop aimed at presenting results of ECDC works on socio-economic determinants and its impacts on infectious diseases control and prevention.
This EUPHEM Module gave opportunity to EUPHEM fellows to get familiar with roles and responsibilities of a European organization involved in infectious disease control and to identify activities related to epidemiological surveillance, including protocols, data analysis and reports developed to set up surveillance systems, evaluation schemes and results of surveillance data analyses.
The fifth European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) was be held on 6-8 November 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden, at the newly opened conference centre in the centre of the city: Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre.
A new cohort of fellows started the European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training (EUPHEM) fellowships. ECDC is releasing a new website dedicated to EUPHEM.
According to the available epidemiological and entomological information, and the arriving winter season, the intensity of malaria transmission in Evrotas, Lakonia in Greece is believed to be very low and is expected to cease shortly.
The World Health Summit, which took taking place from 23 to 26 October in Berlin, was one of the world’s foremost gatherings of leaders from academia, politics, industry and civil society to jointly develop strategies and take action to address key challenges in medical research, global health and health care delivery with the aim of shaping the political, academic and social agendas.