In a report released today, ECDC outlines key strategic and operational considerations to inform preparedness planning around the design and implementation of Public Health and Social Measures (PHSMs) in the EU/EEA for health emergencies and pandemics.
In 2020, 11 124 (12.7%) of patients staying in an intensive care unit (ICU) for more than two days presented with at least one ICU-acquired healthcare-associated infection (HAI) under surveillance (pneumonia, bloodstream infection, or urinary tract infection).
A team of scientific coordinators from the MediPIET training program recently took part in site visits to Montenegro and Serbia. These visits, held from 29 February to 1 March in Montenegro and from 4 to 5 March in Serbia, aimed to assess the progress and impact of the program in these respective countries.
ECDC is gearing up for a dynamic year of training sessions, capacity-building, and collaboration with European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) partner countries through its annual work programme for 2024.
This is a self paced e-learning course to be taken by participants in an asynchronous fashion with the objective of transmitting basic knowledge about how ECDC conducts its EI activities.
An e-learning course aimed at understanding and addressing online vaccination misinformation. It is designed to support public health practitioners and risk communicators in fighting the spread of vaccination misinformation on social media and other digital platforms.
This course focuses on antimicrobial stewardship as an approach to address healthcare-associated infections (HAI) resulting from multi-drug resistance organisms in acute care settings.