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Training Sites available to host EUPHEM EU-track fellows, cohort 2015
The second round of the EUPHEM selection process is complete. Candidates selected to participate in the third round interviews will have the opportunity to meet representatives of the available Training Sites.
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ECDC highlights its training resources in the area of infection control and hospital hygiene, in support of the WHO “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” campaign
Each year on 5 May, the “SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands” campaign takes place as part of a major global effort led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to improve hand hygiene in healthcare settings. The campaign was launched in 2009 as an extension of the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: “Clean Care is Safer Care”. The focus of this year’s campaign is on improving hand hygiene practices in all surgical services, from surgical wards to operating theatres, to outpatient surgical services.
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Acute respiratory pandemics: how to plan for and manage
This practical course will cover outbreak investigation, pandemic planning, recent developments in respiratory pathogen biology and therapy, and will focus around two practical scenarios in which participants will gain experience in managing an acute epidemic. Research during an epidemic and ethical aspects will also be covered.
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ERS Training Course: Acute respiratory pandemics: how to plan and manage
This practical course will cover outbreak investigation, pandemic planning, recent developments in respiratory pathogen biology and therapy, and will focus around two practical scenarios in which participants will gain experience in managing an acute epidemic.
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Course on “Control of multidrug-resistant micro-organisms (MDROs) in health care settings”
The main objective of the planed course is to strengthen capacity in EU Member States for control of healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in acute health care settings and to promote the broadest possible implementation of appropriate methods.
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ECDC Summer School 2018
The goal of the Summer School is to strengthen the mentoring and technical skills of both ECDC experts and experts within ECDC networks, such as supervisors of the Fellowship programme, by providing an opportunity for networking and scientific exchange.
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ECDC organises laboratory training course on bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections
Applications are invited for the European Network for sexually transmitted infection (STI) Surveillance microbiology training course on bacterial STI laboratory methods. The one week course will be delivered on 7 – 11 June 2010 by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in London, United Kingdom. Deadline for registration: 20 April 2010.