⏳ Duration: 1,5-2 hours

👥 Audience: Front-line managers of institutions hosting or serving people who are medically or socially vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19

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

This online course aims to improve skills in writing and reviewing scientific abstracts. The examples used will have a field epidemiology focus, such as outbreak investigations. Training methods include online lectures and exercises. Because this is a self-paced course, participants can decide on the distribution of time they wish to invest on each module of the course. 

⏳ Duration: 2 hours

👥 Audience: Public health professionals in the domain of disease prevention and control

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

• Explain the importance of writing a good abstract,
• Identify the key components of an abstract,
• Outline the steps in writing an abstract,
• Outline the steps in reviewing someone else's abstract

Watch the video below to get a taste of what you can find in this course.

⏳ Duration: 26th & 27 April, 2022 

👥 Audience: Epidemiologists working at the national or subnational level in an EU/EEA country.

🎯 Objectives: The objective is to strengthen skills in writing, reviewing and editing scientific abstracts, with a focus on field epidemiology topics.

What is infectious disease surveillance and its goals? How does a surveillance system look like? Why was ECDC established and what roles does ECDC play regarding surveillance for health security? To answer these questions, please explore the different lessons in this 30-minute e-learning course.

The course is designed for any person who is new to surveillance in Europe, including students, decision-makers, communicators, or any citizens with an interest in this topic. 

⏳ Duration: 30 minutes

👥 Audience: People new to Surveillance in Europe

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

• Understand the main concepts of infectious diseases surveillance.
• Identify the main elements of a surveillance system.
• Describe the role of ECDC in surveillance and health security.
• Understand the role of EpiPulse as a surveillance platform for ECDC and the EU Member States.

This information on the migration from EPIS, TESSy and TTT to EpiPulse is information to read before taking the e-learning for EpiPulse users, and takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. 

Upon completion of reading this information, you will be able to:

• Understand the migration from previous surveillance systems to EpiPulse 
• Understand which changes have been made in reporting of information
• Understand who has which permissions

This information will be especially useful to former users of EPIS, TESSy and TTT who will be using EpiPulse in the future.

This EpiPulse e-learning course is available only to EpiPulse users.

It is a follow up course after the first resource (from EPIS and TESSy to EpiPulse), and takes approximately 3 hours to complete. It's self-paced meaning that you can advance at your own pace. The course is divided in different modules which means that you can pause in between or leave and come back later. The course also contains reference material such as video tutorials and FAQ. You can always come back later to look at this or to take a module again. 

Upon completion of this e-learning course you will be able to:

• Understand what EpiPulse is and why it should be used
• Contextualise EpiPulse in the current European regulatory environment
• Understand the functionalities of EpiPulse

This course is available only to users of EpiPulse.

This webinar series is a complement to the e-learning on EpiPulse. Webinars will be an hybrid between demonstration of key functionality of EpiPulse and questions from the audience.

⏳ Duration: 45-60 minute webinars (From April 2021)

👥 Audience: This webinar series is available only to users of EpiPulse.

🔑 Participation: This webinar is <open/not open> for public enrolment. < details on participation if the course is not open e.g. Participation is through invitation by... >. By enrolling in this series you will be automatically subscribed to the announcements board for this webinar series.

🎯 Objectives: The overall objective of the webinars is to create a space for the users of EpiPulse to see demonstrations of EpiPulse key functionality and enable them to ask questions. Each webinar will have specific objectives.

The workshop aims to support Enlargement countries in raising awareness on the risks and prevention measures of Legionnaires' disease in the tourism sector for commercial accommodation sites. This train-the-trainers workshop will provide a practical training for national experts working on Legionnaires’ disease to enable them to facilitate and deliver an information seminar in their country’s language and legislative setting. 

⏳ Duration: 2 days

📌Location: Montenegro 13 and 14th September 2023

👥 Audience: The participation in this course will be based on the ongoing framework of ECDC Technical EU Pre-accession. Through this framework, ECDC will invite 3-4 designated representatives from EU enlargement country. The invited participants will have previous experience in:

Legionnaires’ disease epidemiology and preferably nominated for ECDC EPIS ELDSNet access; Environmental sampling, laboratory testing or control of Legionella bacteria; Communication, training or prevention awareness activities; Implementing local/regional level action in responding to Legionella cases/outbreaks or site investigations.

🔑 Participation: This course is not open for public enrolment and participation is through invitation. 

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

This four hour course will provide public health and communication experts with strategies, knowledge, and hands-on skills to recognise, monitor and increase capacity to address online vaccine misinformation. 

This self-paced e-learning course consists of 6 modules which will introduce you to basic concepts of misinformation, social listening, health and vaccine literacy, prebunking and debunking techniques to counter misinformation, and evaluating interventions that aim to address online vaccine misinformation.

⏳ Duration: 4 hours  

👥 Audience: Risk communication and public health experts at national and regional levels in the EU/EEA. 

🎯 Objectives: The course aims to provide learners with a broad understanding of what online vaccination misinformation is, and what steps can be taken to address it. Through this, it aims to improve the capacity of EU/EEA countries to counter vaccine misinformation in an evidence-based manner.

This course focuses on antimicrobial stewardship as an approach to address healthcare-associated infections (HAI) resulting from multi-drug resistance organisms in acute care settings.

⏳ Duration: 2 hours

👥 Audience: Healthcare professionals working with healthcare-associated infections

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

This online course introduces you to the methodology of PRECEPT (Project on a Framework for Rating Evidence in Public Health), with a special focus on communicable diseases. 

The PRECEPT methodology helps to assess and grade evidence in a more systematic, transparent and reproducible way. It can be applied for example when developing systematic reviews or guideline documents. 

⏳ Duration: 2-3 hours

👥 Audience: Public health professionals from all career levels with limited or no experience with evidence-based methods

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

• Understand, name and explain the different steps and domains of PRECEPT,
• Identify and frame relevant questions in the different domains,
  
• Understand the concept of study validity and apply quality appraisal for different study designs in different domains,
  
• Apply the GRADE approach to different domains to determine the strength of a body of evidence.
  

⏳ Duration: 4 days (postponed)

📌Location: Instructor-led web-based

👥 Audience: Professionals with public health background working at local, regional or national level

🔑 Participation: This course is not open for public enrolment and participation is through invitation.

🎯 Objectives: Validation and analysis of health threats and Identifying Epidemic Intelligence tools and platforms

⏳ Duration: 4 days (postponed)

📌Location: Instructor-led web-based

👥 Audience: Professionals with public health background working at local, regional or national level

🔑 Participation: This course is not open for public enrolment and participation is through invitation.

🎯 Objectives: Validation and analysis of health threats and Identifying Epidemic Intelligence tools and platforms

⏳ Duration: 4 days (April 2022)

📌Location: Instructor-led web-based

👥 Audience: Professionals with public health background working at local, regional or national level

🎯 Objectives: Validation and analysis of health threats and Identifying Epidemic Intelligence tools and platforms

🔑 Participation: This course is not open for public enrolment and participation is through invitation only.

This course is an introduction on clinical and analytical validation methods. The course gives a detailed description of how analytical and clinical validation is performed in a laboratory and why is so important especially in light of a new pathogen emergence/epidemic.

⏳ Duration: TBD

📌Location: Web-based

👥 Audience:  This course is designed for laboratory experts working on development of new assays and/or diagnostics. 

🔑 Participation: This course will be open for enrolment. 

🎯 Objectives: After completing this course, the participants will be able to: To understand the need for analytical and clinical validation studies and to incorporate them into their daily work.

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.

The program is designed to strengthen capacity in EU Member States and the European Economic Area (EEA) in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in acute healthcare settings and to promote the broad implementation of appropriate measures in the EU. The course will be delivered using blended learning, with pre-course activities and three days face-to-face course. As pre course activities, a self-paced e-learning on Antibiotic Stewardship which aim is to strengthen the capacity regarding healthcare-associated infections due to MDRO in acute care settings and to promote the implementation of appropriate measures is included. Additionally, a self-paced video lecture to help participants understand the drivers and modifiers of antibiotic prescribing and infection prevention and control practices in healthcare settings will be provided. The course will be delivered in English.

⏳ Duration: 4 days (half days) 

📌Location: Instructor-led web-based

👥 Audience: The target audience are healthcare professionals from EU/EEA member states with current or future responsibility for prevention and control of HAIs working at national or local level.

🔑 Participation: This course is not open for public enrollment and participation is through invitation. 

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

• Introduction to MDROs from microbiological and epidemiological perspectives
• Laboratory investigations and methods (identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing, good laboratory practice);
• Antibiotic stewardship (antibiotic policies, measures for improvement of prescribing)
• Infection control principles (evidence-based practice, effective infection control interventions and measures);
• Surveillance of HAIs
• Application to practice (application of interventions to control MDROs in healthcare settings, transparent reporting of outbreaks and interventions).

The following aspects of WGS of M. tuberculosis will be covered: - Overview of NGS data analysis; -WGS data interpretation based on WHO mutation catalogue V2; -Use of NGS web-tools and software for WGS analysis of MTBC sequence data; -Guide for interpreting the phylogenetic tree;

⏳ Duration: 3-5 days

📌Location: OSR in Milan, Italy

👥 Audience: People from EU/EEA actively involved in TB WGS implementation

🔑 Participation: This course is not open for public enrollment and participation is through invitation. 

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

This introductory e-learning course aims to provide the participants with a basic understanding of the practical aspects of the legislation that applies to cross-border sharing of public health data. During the course, participants will acquire adequate skills to begin applying the concepts of data protection in their daily work as public health (PH) professionals. The course is particularly useful to PH professionals working in communicable disease surveillance, data collection, data administration and clinical research. While the focus is on EU legislation, the concepts presented may also be relevant in other legal systems.

⏳ Duration: 3 hours

👥 Audience: Non-legal health professionals 

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

• Describe the current legal framework that guides data protection within the EU and globally.
• Describe the data protection reforms currently taking place in the EU.
• Apply the basic principles of data protection in a cross-border data sharing.
• Identify the basic concepts of intellectual property rights. 

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This interactive video lecture focuses on the topic of social behavioural aspects related to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). The aim of this lecture is to strengthen the capacity in the EU/EEA regarding healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) due to MDROs in acute care settings and to promote the implementation of appropriate measures. 

The lecture is interactive, with questions and exercises, and self-paced, meaning you can rewind, advance, pause, and continue at any time, open to all users.

⏳ Duration: ~30 min

📅 Start date: 5 May 2022

👥 Audience: Healthcare professionals with responsibility for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) working at national or local level within the EU/EEA countries. 

🎯 Objective: After following this lecture, learners will be able to utilise the Theory of Planned Behaviour to understand antibiotic stewardship and infection prevention & control (IPC) practices relevant to MDRO control.

This course on after-action reviews (AAR) and in-action reviews (IAR) is part of a broader plan of ECDC to raise awareness to 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 AAR. It is also suitable for anyone not familiar with AAR but interested in pursuing one.

⏳ Duration: 90-120 minutes

👥 Audience: General preparedness experts

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