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European Legionnaires’ disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet) training for EpiPulse TALD domain

This training will be delivered partly as a online webinar and partly as a self-paced online training, including some aspects of case reporting in TESSy.


Dates and duration: 2024 quarter 1.


Audience: This training is designed for professionals who are part of the European Legionnaires’ disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet).


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

  • Use the new platform EpiPulse TALD domain to perform ELDSNet TALD Surveillance.


Participation: TBD.


Category: 2024 Catalogue
GenEpi-BioTrain - Virtual training 06: Introduction to SARS-CoV-2 wastewater analysis

This virtual training workshop is part of the Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics Training Programme (GenEpi-BioTrain). It's organised as part of Wave 1 dedicated to Influenza and SARS-CoV-2. 

The aim of this virtual training is to introduce participants to theoretical and practical aspects of analysing SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. Participants will get insights into the laboratory work, the interpretation of SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater and the variant analysis with examples from the Danish SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance.


Duration: Two half-days on 24 and 31 January 2024 from 12:30 to 16:00 (CET)


Location: Online - Find the link after enrolment. 


Audience: Public health microbiologists and bioinformaticians interested in discussing concepts of wastewater surveillance, data quality control, measuring viral concentrations in wastewater and normalising and interpreting levels of SARS-CoV-2. 


Objectives:  

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the concept of wastewater surveillance.
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance.
  • Describe the laboratory workflow for measuring viral concentrations in wastewater, including relevant quality control measures.
  • Describe how wastewater samples can be prepared for sequencing.
  • Discuss how SARS-CoV-2 levels in wastewater can be normalised and interpreted.
  • Have a basic understanding of the analysis steps (including quality control) to investigate lineage abundance from sequencing data using bioinformatic command line tools.
  • Discuss how wastewater analysis can complement other types of surveillance.

Participation: This course is open for public enrolment from 10 to 24 January 2024.

Category: 2024 Catalogue
Improving usage of ECDC surveillance data
Here ECDC presents four tools to help improve Surveillance of infectious diseases in the EU/EEA


Duration: 4 x 20 minutes 


Target audience: Surveillance experts working with infectious diseases data at national level in the EU/EEA. 


Learning objectives: 

  • Explain the purpose and overall function of the ECDC mapping tool (EMMa).
  • Explain the purpose and overall function of the ECDC Surveillance Atlas.
  • Explain the purpose and overall function of the ECDC Hepatitis B and C database.
  • Explain the purpose and overall function of the ECDC HIV modelling platform. 


Participation:  Thise instructional videos are open for public. 

Wastewater surveillance: a magic bullet or a piece of the puzzle? (from ESCAIDE 2023)
Wastewater surveillance: a magic bullet or just one piece of the puzzle?


Duration: 90 minutes


Audience: general public 


Participation:  This session is open to the public.

ECDC HIV Modelling Tool

The ECDC HIV Modelling Tool is a tool developed by ECDC in collaboration with international partners to provide estimates of the number of people living with HIV, including those not yet diagnosed. The tool can also estimate the annual number of new HIV infections, the average time between infection and diagnosis, and the number of people in need of treatment according to CD4 counts. To achieve all of this, the tool needs only routinely collected HIV surveillance data. Nearly all countries in the European region report annual HIV and AIDS diagnoses to the TESSy database hosted at ECDC.

Given that almost all countries in the European region annually report HIV and AIDS diagnoses to the TESSy database hosted at ECDC, the materials provided in this module aim to guide users through precise steps in preparing the data. This guidance ensures that the HIV Modelling Tool runs smoothly, ultimately providing accurate estimates for each country.


Duration: Self-paced


Audience: The training is designed for professionals in HIV surveillance specialist, including modelers, statisticians, data scientists, and epidemiologists actively working in the field of HIV.


Objectives: After completing this training, the participants will be able to:

  • Prepare diverse data types (case-based, aggregated) for the ECDC HIV Modelling Tool. This includes adept navigation of the tool's interface, successful data uploads, and effective mapping, with a focus on nuances such as defining migrant variables. 
  • Apply quality assurance techniques for ensuring the accuracy and reliability of data uploaded to the tool. 
  • Understand the multiple imputations for missing data adjustment.


Participation:  This training material will be open without enrolment.

Training materials for a train the trainers course on Epidemiological aspects of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD)

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.

Category: Course Packages
Influenza sentinel surveillance training, by WHO
⏳ Duration: 14 hours 

👥 Audience: This course is for public health practitioners and laboratorians. 

🎯 Objectives: Participants learn what kinds of data to collect from influenza patients and patient specimens, and the methods of collecting these data. Participants also learn how to analyse, summarise, report, present, and interpret data collected within a sentinel influenza surveillance system.


 Photo credits: WHO

Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR), by WHO
⏳ Duration: 15 hours 

👥 Audience: This course is for public health professionals 

🎯 Objectives: This course is comprised of seven units that will provide you an opportunity to practice using the skills and knowledge included in the Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in the African Region, and provide you with additional information and resources to effectively conduct IDSR activities 


 Photo credits: WHO

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