Methods and tools for evidence-based public health with a focus on infectious disease epidemiology, prevention, and control (two courses offered in 2024).
Duration: 24th – 27 September 2024 (4 days).
Location: In person courses at ECDC, Stockholm.
Audience: The workshops are offered to ECDC staff and colleagues of different professional backgrounds and levels working at national and sub-national public health institutions in the EU/EEA countries, and especially recommended to experts involved in the development and provision of public health risk assessments, and public health guidelines/guidance documents. The workshop is targeted at beginners in the field of evidence-based practice, and prior knowledge in in this field is not needed. However, basic knowledge in epidemiology (e.g., different study designs) has proven to be helpful to fully benefit from the workshop.
The 4-day in person courses include in addition plenty of tips and examples, mainly taken from the area of ECDC’s remit, i.e. infectious disease epidemiology, prevention and control, as well as practical exercises in small groups and Q&A sessions.
Objectives: At the end of the workshop the participants will:
- Understand the meaning and implications of evidence based public health (EBPH) and evidence-based decision-making (EIDM) and be able to give an own definition;
- Be able to describe different review types as well as the characteristics and key elements of a systematic review incl. the differences between systematic reviews and meta-analyses;
- Have performed all relevant steps of a systematic review themselves;
- Have enhanced their critical appraisal and risk of bias assessment skills;
- Know how to get from evidence to recommendations, assess and grade the level of evidence and the strength of recommendations, and develop evidence-based guidelines/guidance;
- Have been equipped with plenty of hands-on tips and a set of checklists, tools and information sources for further reading and study.
Participation: Selected partipants only.