28 Jan 2010 28 January 2010 was the last working day for Zsuzsanna Jakab as Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the Stockholm based EU agency she has led since it started up in 2005. On 1 February Zsuzsanna Jakab started work in Copenhagen as the new Regional Director for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO). 28 Jan 2010 On 28 January 2010 the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) launched their annual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks for 2008. 28 Jan 2010 The European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) provides training and practical experience in intervention epidemiology at the national centres for surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the European Union (EU). In 2010 ECDC will have funding for up to 18 EPIET fellows. Applicants are invited to apply for a fellow position in the EPIET cohort 16. Deadline for applications is February 07, 2010 CET 24:00.
Apply for a fellow position 26 Jan 2010 Margot Wallström, Vice President of the European Commission took time out of her schedule to visit ECDC on Monday, 25 January. She was briefed on the Centre's work by Director Zsuzsanna Jakab, Chief Scientist Johan Giesecke and Karl Ekdahl, Head of the Health Communication Unit. 25 Jan 2010 ECDC hosted the launch of the European Reference Laboratory Network for Tuberculosis (ERLN-TB) on 25 January 2010 at its first annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. Reference laboratories representatives from EU/EEA Member States and candidate countries will engage in an unprecedented initiative in the field of tuberculosis control in the EU. 20 Jan 2010 Update of the threat assessment of 22 December 2009 on anthrax among drug users in Scotland, following the report of an additional case by Germany. 16 Dec 2009 Following the kick-off meeting in September 2009, VBORNET started its activities. VBORNET is a network of medical entomologists and public health experts, funded by ECDC. Its aim is to support ECDC activities in terms of arthropod vector surveillance within the European Union and consequently to improve preparedness towards vector-borne diseases. 14 Dec 2009 Eurovaccine 2009, the first European conference on vaccination and immunisation organised and fully funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 11 December 2009. 03 Dec 2009 On 1 December ECDC, together with the Swedish Presidency, organised a scientific seminar at the European Parliament to mark World AIDS Day. The event was co-hosted by Mr Jo Leinen MEP, Chair of the ENVI Committee, and Ms Marina Yannakoudakis MEP. The seminar aimed at briefing policy makers on the HIV/AIDS situation in Europe with a special focus on men who have sex with men, one of the main risk groups for HIV in the European Union. 02 Dec 2009 At the EPSCO Council in Brussels on 1 December ECDC Director Zsuzsanna Jakab gave EU health ministers an update on the state of the (H1N1) influenza pandemic in the European Union.
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