From 8 to 10 October, senior public health professionals from 19 European countries participated in the third ‘training of trainers’ workshop organised by ECDC in Stockholm on “Development of public health programmes for prevention and control of seasonal influenza”.
The objective of this expert consultation was to guide, harmonize and enhance the surveillance and prevention of tick-borne diseases in EU Member States, with special emphasis on Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis.
The objective of the meeting was to give a strategic and functional view on how the European Influenza Surveillance Network should implement the molecular surveillance of human influenza in Europe in detail and at what level.
Topics covered includeed: Human seasonal influenza programme planning; Surveillance systems and epidemiological studies; Laboratory issues; Human seasonal influenza policy; Vaccination; Targeting priority groups; Communication; Evaluation and research of human seasonal influenza and Action planning.
On 15-16 June, ECDC and WHO European Regional Office will jointly host the Annual Tuberculosis Surveillance Network meeting at the WHO Regional office in Copenhagen.