During their two-year fellowship, ECDC Fellowship Programme fellows are placed in different training sites.
Training sites selected to host a fellow are those with responsibilities for communicable disease surveillance, epidemiology, and public health advice. Selection criteria include an assessment of the training site’s potential for the practice of intervention epidemiology or public health microbiology and the quality of training supervision available for the fellows.
ECDC monitors social media for epidemic intelligence purposes. This is done by monitoring a list of predefined users using Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS) and monitoring a list of predefined users on social media platforms.