EUPHEM is celebrating 15 years of providing state-of-the-art training in public health microbiology and enabling its fellows to apply microbiological and epidemiological methods to a wide range of public health problems in Europe.
European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) is a European health initiative coordinated by ECDC. It provides a platform and support for national campaigns on the prudent use of antibiotics in the EU/EEA and take place each year across Europe on 18 November.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has previously raised the alarm on the increasing threat of antimicrobial resistance, estimating that over 35 000 people die annually from infections resistant to antibiotics in the European Union (EU), Iceland, and Norway.
The seventh ‘Exchange of Experts’ programme meeting for European Neighbourhood Policy partner countries took place on 14-15 November 2023 at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In this episode we sit down for a chat with Gianfranco Spiteri - ECDC's Group Leader in the Epidemic Intelligence team and look at the recent AI developments and what the new tools can bring to ECDC's work.
On Friday 13 October 2023, a team of experts from the European Commission (EC), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), two EU Member States (Spain and Finland), the Integrated Quality Laboratory Services (IQLS), and Epiconcept finished a joint one-week visit to Kosovo* on One-Health approaches against AMR.
From 25 September to 13 October 2023, ECDC delivered a three-week introductory course for ECDC Fellowship programme (EPIET and EUPHEM paths), MediPIET and Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE) fellows.