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 11 – 15 December 2023, MediPIET Cohort 5, EPIET, EUPHEM and PAE fellows attended the annual Time Series Analysis (TSA) module hosted by Instituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS) in Rome, Italy.
On 12-13 December 2023, ECDC organised a simulation exercise on the serious cross-border threat posed by the spread of antimicrobial resistance, in collaboration with WHO.
Campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis were the most frequently reported zoonotic diseases in humans in the EU in 2022. For West Nile virus, an increase of the number of infections was observed.
We talked to Cornelius Bartels after a three-day training on bio-risk awareness and mitigation organised by ECDC, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health, and Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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.