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.
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.
The workshop “Detection and assessment of public health threats in the European Union” was part of capacity building component within the ongoing technical cooperation framework for the EU Candidate Countries and Potential Candidates (CC/PC) , ECDC organised a training workshop for public health experts in CC/PCC to support capacity of these countries to participate in the ECDC activities.
Strengthening public health capacities in a diverse European setting has become a major issue in an enlarged European Union. Migration within the Member States and incoming migrants from neighbouring countries is influencing national and regional public health policies. The importance of strengthening and building up new public health capacities in a time of increased migration is going to be discussed at the workshop organised by the ECDC at the 14th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG).
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) is organising the 24th ESICM LIVES Annual Congress in Berlin on 1-5 October 2011. This congress is one of the major meetings, gathering numerous well-known international experts in the field of intensive care medicine.
Location:Berlin
Organized by:European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
At a special joint session combining experts from the National Microbiology Focal Points and ECDC's Advisory Forum, ECDC Director, Dr. Marc Sprenger, set out his vision for the agency’s role in strengthening public health microbiology across Europe: By 2016, ECDC will foster the development and facilitate the operation of an efficient public health microbiology system capable of providing timely and reliable information for infectious disease prevention and control at Member State and EU levels