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.
Joaquin Baruch who was part of the ECDC Fellowship Programme for epidemiologists - EPIET - talks to us about his experiences as a fellow in Malta, as well as doing field work in places such as Western Sahara, Algeria and Mozambique.
ECDC Head of the Fellowship Programmes - Adam Roth used the occassion of the September course to talk to an EPIET alumni, fellowship facilitator and RKI expert - Ute Rexroth.
Charlotte Salgaard Nielsen, EPIET fellow, went on a GOARN deployment to support the Greater Horn of Africa drought and food insecurity emergency response.
From 19–23 June, ECDC hosted the 2023 edition of the Rapid Assessment and Survey Methods (RAS) module for EPIET/EUPHEM, PAE, and MediPIET fellows in Stockholm, Sweden.
This manual provides a detailed overview of the ECDC Fellowship Programme’s intended learning outcomes, training activities (modules, field and international assignments), supervision and coordination of the training course.
Fanny Chereau, EPIET fellow from cohort 2016, was deployed with GOARN (Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network) to support the response to the plague outbreak in Madagascar, on October 2017.