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In-action and after-action reviews 2024

The EU Initiative on Health Security aims to strengthen partner countries’ capacities to assess, detect, respond and prevent threats from communicable diseases, as well as enhance regional cooperation. 

This training on in-action (IAR) and after-action reviews (AAR) is part of the initiative’s efforts to address preconditions for efficient public health systems.  IAR and AAR are qualitative, structured reviews of actions taken in response to a public health event, as a means of identifying and documenting best practices, gaps, and lessons. They enable improvements and strengthening in preparedness and response planning.


Dates and duration: TBD (Q3, 2024)


Audience: The training is designed for professionals working in ministries of health and public health institutes who are involved in preparedness, response, and recovery related to outbreaks of infectious diseases. 


Objectives: After completing this training, participants should be able to:

  • Explain the importance of conducting post-event reviews during or following a public health emergency as good practice and for resilience purposes
  • Discuss the in-action (IAR) and after-action review (AAR) requirements, methodologies, and outcomes
  • Discuss the use of evidence in advice- and policymaking


Participation:  This training is not open for self-enrolment. Participation is through invitation only.


Category: 2024 Catalogue
Climate change and infectious disease in the southern neighbourhood 2024

The EU Initiative on Health Security aims to strengthen partner countries’ capacities to assess, detect, respond and prevent threats from communicable diseases, as well as enhance regional cooperation. 

This training on climate change and infectious disease  is part of the initiative’s efforts to address preconditions for efficient public health systems.  The impacts of climate change on infectious disease transmission are increasingly well documented. From a One Health perspective, this training will focus on assessing the current knowledge on the topic and identifying good practices for climate change adaptation oriented around anticipating and responding to the direct and indirect threats from climate change.


Dates and duration: TBD (Q2; 2024)


Audience: The training is designed for senior professionals and policy-advisors working in public health from the EU Southern ENP partner countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine1, and Tunisia), food safety, animal health, and environmental authorities. 1 This designation shall not be construed as recognition of a State of Palestine and is without prejudice to the individual positions of the Member States on this issue.


Objectives: After completing this training, participants should be able to: 

  • Communicate the latest scientific knowledge surrounding climate change and infectious disease as it pertains to Southern Neighbourhood Policy countries
  • Identify and prioritise the direct and indirect threats that climate change poses to the control of infectious disease
  • Discuss regional preparedness strategies for augmenting threat anticipation, early warning, and response in relation to climate change and infectious disease


Participation: This training is not open for self-enrolment. Participation is through invitation only.


Category: 2024 Catalogue
Introduction to designing in- and after-action reviews e-learning course

This course on after-action reviews (AARs) and in-action reviews (IARs) is part of a broader plan by ECDC to raise awareness of the importance of planning for public health emergencies, as well as improve the methodology of analysis to advance this important field of research. It is designed as a non-moderated, self-paced course divided into eight modules, and takes approximately 90-120 minutes to complete. This course is tailored to any public health expert interested in improving their methodological understanding of AARs. It is also suitable for anyone not familiar with AARs but interested in pursuing one.


Duration: 90-120 minutes.


Audience: General preparedness experts.


Objectives: On completing of the course, participants will be able to: 

  • Explain most important characteristics and phases to construct a good quality AAR;
  • Differentiate the methodologies and designs for AARs;
  • Select a methodology coherent with the scope of an AAR;
  • Understand the importance of a stakeholder analysis select/develop relevant trigger questions; and
  • Assess lessons learned through the AAR process.


Participation: This course is open for public enrolment.


  
Introduction to Infectious Disease Preparedness micro learning

 This course aims to outline the preparedness cycle as applied to infectious diseases. It intends to present, in a light and engaging manner, the various areas of work of the preparedness cycle at large and explain how they relate to one another. Each work area is further described, providing access to useful tools and asking a few questions along the way to ensure learners' understanding.


Duration: 30 min.


Audience: This course is intended for people who need to interact with infectious diseases preparedness teams, as well as for those who have a basic understanding of what preparedness is and wish to learn more, such as health professionals, policy-makers, communicators, academics, and local community leaders, among others.


Objectives: On completing the course, participants will be able to:

  • Define what preparedness is, and its related concepts;
  • ​Identify the different stakeholders involved in preparedness; and
  • Identify assessment tools to facilitate preparedness.


Participation: This course is open for public enrolment.

  

 

Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19 response

This e-learning course is non-moderated and self-paced. You can decide when to start it, interrupt and resume to continue at any time. In total, the course is designed to take approximately 2 hours to complete.


Duration: 2 hours.


Audience: Public health professionals.


Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain to decision makers the importance of contact tracing as public health measure in the context of COVID-19;
  • Adapt to the local context the processes of contact tracing for COVID-19;
  • Identify ways to scale up contact tracing and reflect on how to adapt them to the local context;
  • Understand the benefits and risks of using mobile applications to undertake contact tracing;
  • Identify indicators to measure the efficacy and effectiveness of contact tracing operations;

  • Recognise the importance of contact tracing data analysis.


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Understanding Vaccine Acceptance & Strategies to Increase Vaccine Uptake

This e-learning course, developed in November 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, aims at increasing understanding of the drivers of vaccine acceptance and design targeted strategies to increase vaccine uptake. 

⏳ Duration: 30 minutes

👥 Audience: Healthcare workers, health promoters/health promotion managers, civil society organisations working at national and sub-national levels working on vaccination or in vaccination programs. Public health and risk communication professionals may also be interested in the concepts and strategies introduced.

🎯 Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the 5C model and advocate for its use in diagnosing barriers to vaccine acceptance and uptake, and in designing adapted strategies.
  • Describe why diagnosing the barriers to vaccine acceptance and uptake is essential, and recognise the data collection tools that may be used.
  • Understand the need to evaluate behaviour change interventions, and describe how this may be done considering the complexity of causality in behavioural interventions.
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