ECDC Virtual Academy (EVA)

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.

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Learning objectives of the training material include:

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.

You will find course material that you may use to offer a training on threats to human health caused by Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) agents. Your target audience could include:

• Field epidemiology program fellows and supervisors;
• Public Health professionals working in CBRN incidents or Generic Preparedness and Response at national institutions;
• Mid-career and senior public health professionals in position of cascading training in-country;
  
• Public health epidemiologists working at the national, regional or local level.

👥 Audience: Trainers in the field of response to CBRN threats to human health.

🎯 Objectives: Learning objectives of the training material are to:

●       Understand the nature of emergencies caused by chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incidents versus conventional terrorist acts, and be familiar with the main CBRN agents and diseases

●       Assist in creating, monitoring and evaluating preparedness plans

●       Get familiar with a sustainable framework for effective interagency cooperation for chemical or biological incidents in peace times and during cross-border CBRN incidents

●       Understand the International Health Regulations (IHR) role in detecting and reporting of a chemical or a biological incident

●       Build awareness for early recognition of events caused by deliberate or accidental release of chemical, biological or radionuclear agents

●       Be familiar with the main sources of information and event based surveillance of CBRN incidents

●       Understand the principles and main steps of risk assessment (beforehand, then during CBRN events), risk management and response during CBRN events

●       Understand the principles of primary site management and management of exposed people during/following a CBRN-incident

●       Be familiar with principles of infection control (quarantine, isolation, standard hygiene / droplet / airborne precautions, barrier nursing) 

●       Be familiar with different methods for diagnosis and microorganism typing, including molecular testing, and their respective value in outbreak investigations and understand how to interpret the main laboratory tests related to CBRN incidents

●       Acquire knowledge and skills of taking clinical and environmental samples of critical substances and of their appropriate transportation following international standards

●       Understand the basic principles of risk communication, including its necessary consistency, during a CBRN incident targeting different audiences: social media, general public, professional networks and policy makers and contexts: Intra-country, inter-country, intersectoral, inter-institutions, etc.

●       Understand of principles of occupational health and safety for healthcare workers

●       Know the different types and levels of Personal Protective Equipment and be able to give a situation adapted recommendation to involved professionals

●       Be familiar with usage of PPE Level C (donning, doffing, avoidance of cross-contamination, waste management, etc.)

●       Acquire knowledge of principles of organisation, delivery and evaluation of a simulation exercise related to the response to an acute health threat




Note: These materials are not open publicly. Access is provided upon request.

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.