You will find course material that you may use to offer a training for your target audience. Your target audience could include epidemiologists, microbiologists, and bioinformaticians, who are expected to collaborate in using whole-genome sequencing for public health and pathogen surveillance.
Audience: Facilitators of interdisciplinary county teams to stimulate their collaboration to interpret integrated analysis and visualisation of WGS data to inform infectious disease prevention and control.
Objectives:
Learning objectives of the training material include:
- Enhancing participants’ knowledge and skills in genomic epidemiology and bioinformatics;
- Furthering participants’ knowledge and use of open source tools for integrated analysis and visualisation of WGS and epidemiological data;
- Supporting participants’ deeper understanding of how the interdisciplinary interpretation of such integrated results can inform infectious disease prevention and control;
- Promoting the collaboration of interdisciplinary well integrated teams within the public health institutions.
Access: These course materials are open for public, regardless of people intending to teach the topic or learn form the materials in a self-study modality.
You will find course material that you may use to offer a training for your target audience. Your target audience could include beginners in bioinformatics or public health professionals, who are expected to have a future role in using whole-genome sequencing for public health and pathogen surveillance
Audience: Trainers in introduction to Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Bioinformatics.
Objectives:
Learning objectives of the training material include:
- Process sequencing data (from raw data to genomes)
- Critically evaluate data quality at all steps of the process
- Write basic python/bash scripts, to extract relevant information from processed data
- Write a basic processing pipeline
- Understand the importance and underlying principles of good coding practice, code documentation and code sharing
- Perform basic analysis supporting epidemiological investigations, including interaction with public databases
Access: These course materials are open for public, regardless of people intending to teach the topic or learn form the materials in a self-study modality.
You will find course material that you may use to offer a training to your target audience. Your target audience could include public health professionals with International Health Regulations (IHR) and/or working in the field of preparedness and response to infectious diseases outbreaks.
Audience: Trainers in the field of preparedness.
Topic areas:
- International Health Regulations (IHR)
- Simulation Exercises (SimEx)
- In(tra)- and After-Action Reviews (IAR/AAR)
- Risk Communication
- Recovery
- Chemical incidents
Access: These course materials are open for public, regardless of people intending to teach the topic or learn form the materials in a self-study modality.
These training materials may be used to offer a
training for, e.g., health communicators with an interest in antimicrobial
resistance and prudent use of antibiotics.
👥 Audience: Trainers who wish to organise a training on the development,
implementation and evaluation of campaigns to raise awareness about prudent use
of antibiotics.
🎯 Objectives: The learning objectives of these training materials are to:
- Understand and explain the rationale, key elements and steps required to develop behaviour change communication campaigns on prudent antibiotic usel;
- Understand and apply basic social marketing concepts in the development implementation and evaluation of behaviour change communication campaigns on prudent antibiotic use;
- Design and implement behaviour change communication campaigns on prudent antibiotic use;
- Identify and select appropriate indicators, methods and tools for evaluation of behaviour change communication campaigns on prudent antibiotic use;
- design and implement an evaluation work plan for behaviour change communication campaigns on prudent antibiotic use.
These training materials may be used to offer a training for, e.g., the national coordinators for the ECDC point prevalence survey (PPS) 2016-2017 and other potential trainers for short courses at national level in EU/EEA countries.
📅 Start date: 2017
👥 Audience: Trainers who wish to organise a training on the ECDC PPS
🎯 Objectives: The learning objectives of these trainings material are to:
- Appreciate the aims, objectives & methodology of the ECDC PPS;
- Identify healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) using standard ECDC PPS case definitions;
- Understand the concept of reliability in the context of the ECDC PPS;
- Enter EU PPS data in and export data from the HelicsWin.Net software package;
- Describe the best approach, organisation and training techniques to deliver a short course on the ECDC protocol for PPS targeting hospital staff / data collectors;
- Describe and discuss the principles of and approaches to training with adult learners and the importance of learning styles;
- Critically evaluate the training approaches for working with groups, including questioning strategies to ensure engagement and understanding;
- Identify and utilise approaches to evaluation of training.
You will find training material that you may use to offer a training for your target audience. Your target audience could include senior epidemiologists working in surveillance and outbreak investigation of VPDs. The expectation is that the course materials will improve the capacity of the participants to become trainers in vaccinology.
👥 Audience: Trainers in the field of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD)
🎯 Objectives: The objectives of this training material are to:
- Become familiar with interactive and adult learning methods, e.g. case studies;
- Be able to lecture on surveillance, outbreak investigation and applied epidemiological research of VPD;
- Be able to facilitate case studies in these areas
- Be able to define the target audience and to adjust material/contents;
- Mobilise resources (human, budget, etc.) to organise training in this area.