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e-Learning for front-line managers on COVID-19 prevention and response to vulnerable populations (V2) | COVID-19 e-learning | 21 Mar 2022 | e-Learning for front-line managers on COVID-19 prevention and response to vulnerable populations (V2) This e-learning course is designed for front-line managers of institutions hosting or serving people who are medially or socially vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19. It is a non-moderated and self-paced course. You can decide when to start it, interrupt and resume to continue at any time. In total, the course is designed to take from 1.5 to 2 hours to complete. The version 2.0 of this course, from March 2022, introduces vaccination to the course and contains revised Infection Prevention and Control measures and contact tracing practices aligned with the most recent ECDC guidance. ⏳ 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:
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Essentials of Writing and Reviewing Scientific Abstracts: a field epidemiology focus | self-paced | 17 May 2019 | Essentials of Writing and Reviewing Scientific Abstracts: a field epidemiology focus 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:
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Peer feedback on Writing and Reviewing Scientific Abstracts: a field epidemiology focus 2022 | self-paced | 8 Apr 2022 | Peer feedback on Writing and Reviewing Scientific Abstracts: a field epidemiology focus 2022 This course is based on participation in a peer-review assignments and participation in forum discussions. The course is moderated and partially self-paced. The only elements that have a fixed timeframe are the deadlines for the peer-review assignments (writing and reviewing an abstract). This is a synchronous course, certain deadlines for some assignments are important to meet in order to complete the course. The course will involve three (3) live sessions and two (2) self-paced activities. ⏳ 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. | ||||||||||
(Coming soon) Introduction to Infectious Disease Surveillance - e-learning course | self-paced | 1 Mar 2022 | (Coming soon) Introduction to Infectious Disease Surveillance - e-learning course 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:
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1. Migration to EpiPulse | EpiPulse training | 30 Nov 2020 | 1. Migration to EpiPulse 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:
This information will be especially useful to former users of EPIS, TESSy and TTT who will be using EpiPulse in the future. | ||||||||||
2. e-learning for EpiPulse users | EpiPulse training | 1 Jul 2019 | 2. e-learning for EpiPulse users 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:
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3. EpiPulse Webinar series | EpiPulse training | 30 Nov 2020 | 3. EpiPulse Webinar series 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. | ||||||||||
A Cross-sectoral biorisk awareness and mitigation training (4th Edition) (2022) | 2022 catalogue | 4 Oct 2022 | A Cross-sectoral biorisk awareness and mitigation training (4th Edition) (2022)
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A Train-the-trainer workshop for Western Balkans on raising awareness for prevention of Legionnaires’ disease associated to touristic accommodation sites (2022) | 2022 catalogue | 20 Nov 2015 | A Train-the-trainer workshop for Western Balkans on raising awareness for prevention of Legionnaires’ disease associated to touristic accommodation sites (2022) 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:
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Active Tuberculosis (TB) case finding in migrants - Online Workshop | 2020 catalogue | 13 Oct 2020 | Active Tuberculosis (TB) case finding in migrants - Online Workshop
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Active Tuberculosis (TB) case finding in migrants | 2020 catalogue | 20 Jan 2020 | Active Tuberculosis (TB) case finding in migrants
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Ad hoc training (on need-basis) during emergencies (pandemic clause)- Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Immunisation Programmes (VPI) | 2020 catalogue | 31 Dec 2020 | Ad hoc training (on need-basis) during emergencies (pandemic clause)- Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Immunisation Programmes (VPI)
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Addressing Online Vaccination Misinformation e-Learning | self-paced | 1 Jan 2022 | Addressing Online Vaccination Misinformation e-Learning 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.
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Advanced training on epidemic intelligence | 2021 catalogue | 11 Dec 2020 | Advanced training on epidemic intelligence
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Antimicrobial Stewardship e-learning course | self-paced | 1 Feb 2021 | Antimicrobial Stewardship e-learning course 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:
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Assessing and grading evidence in public health e-learning course (PRECEPT) | self-paced | 29 Apr 2019 | Assessing and grading evidence in public health e-learning course (PRECEPT) 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:
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Basic Training on Epidemic Intelligence and Rapid Risk Assessment (French edition) | 2022 catalogue | 17 Jan 2022 | Basic Training on Epidemic Intelligence and Rapid Risk Assessment (French edition) This course will combine the steps from the early detection of a signal through to the assessment of a public health event. The course will focus on understanding the process of early detection, validation and analysis of health threats, in identifying Epidemic Intelligence tools and platforms and cite examples of best practices on epidemic intelligence among the experts in prevention and control of communicable diseases. The course will also focus on the basics in deciding, planning, conducting, and generating rapid risk assessments through the introduction of concepts, principles and succession of actions. At the end of the course, the participant should have sufficient knowledge and basic skills to be involved in a team producing rapid risk assessments for public health event caused by infectious diseases. The course will consist of a theoretical part and a group exercise from early detection to producing the essential parts of a rapid risk assessment based on a real-life event. ⏳ 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 | ||||||||||
Basic Training on Epidemic Intelligence and Rapid Risk Assessment (Russian edition) | 2022 catalogue | 17 Jan 2022 | Basic Training on Epidemic Intelligence and Rapid Risk Assessment (Russian edition) This course will combine the steps from the early detection of a signal through to the assessment of a public health event. The course will focus on understanding the process of early detection, validation and analysis of health threats, in identifying Epidemic Intelligence tools and platforms and cite examples of best practices on epidemic intelligence among the experts in prevention and control of communicable diseases. The course will also focus on the basics in deciding, planning, conducting, and generating rapid risk assessments through the introduction of concepts, principles and succession of actions. At the end of the course, the participant should have sufficient knowledge and basic skills to be involved in a team producing rapid risk assessments for public health event caused by infectious diseases. The course will consist of a theoretical part and a group exercise from early detection to producing the essential parts of a rapid risk assessment based on a real-life event. ⏳ 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 | ||||||||||
Basic Training on Epidemic Intelligence and Rapid Risk Assessment | 2022 catalogue | 26 Apr 2022 | Basic Training on Epidemic Intelligence and Rapid Risk Assessment This course will combine the steps from the early detection of a signal through to the assessment of a public health event. The course will focus on understanding the process of early detection, validation and analysis of health threats, in identifying Epidemic Intelligence tools and platforms and cite examples of best practices on epidemic intelligence among the experts in prevention and control of communicable diseases. The course will also focus on the basics in deciding, planning, conducting, and generating rapid risk assessments through the introduction of concepts, principles and succession of actions. At the end of the course, the participant should have sufficient knowledge and basic skills to be involved in a team producing rapid risk assessments for public health event caused by infectious diseases. The course will consist of a theoretical part and a group exercise from early detection to producing the essential parts of a rapid risk assessment based on a real-life event. ⏳ 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. | ||||||||||
Catalogue 2022 - All | test_ed | 20 Sep 2021 | Catalogue 2022 - All | ||||||||||
Coming soon - Analytical and clinical validation of laboratory tests | COVID-19 e-learning | 1 Sep 2022 | Coming soon - Analytical and clinical validation of laboratory tests 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. | ||||||||||
Comp assigned Courses | Miscellaneous | 20 Sep 2021 | Comp assigned Courses | ||||||||||
Competency assessment tool | Miscellaneous | 29 Mar 2022 | Competency assessment tool | ||||||||||
Contact tracing in the context of COVID-19 response | COVID-19 e-learning | 19 Jul 2019 | 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:
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Control of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in healthcare settings | 2020 catalogue | 16 Nov 2020 | Control of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in healthcare settings
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Control of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in healthcare settings | 2022 catalogue | 1 Jan 2022 | Control of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in healthcare settings 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:
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Course on advanced WGS of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 2022 catalogue | 1 Jan 2022 | Course on advanced WGS of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 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:
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Course restoration in progress copy 4 | 2022 catalogue | Course restoration in progress copy 4 | |||||||||||
Course restoration in progress copy 5 | 2022 catalogue | Course restoration in progress copy 5 | |||||||||||
COVID-19 Background Information | Background for COVID-19 | 13 Feb 2020 | COVID-19 Background Information | ||||||||||
Cross-border sharing of public health data e-learning course | self-paced | 13 Jan 2020 | Cross-border sharing of public health data e-learning course 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:
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Current issues on Legionella – October 2021 | 2021 catalogue | 2 Jul 2021 | Current issues on Legionella – October 2021
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Design and conduct of an In-action review to consider the response to COVID-19 | 2020 catalogue | 1 Oct 2020 | Design and conduct of an In-action review to consider the response to COVID-19
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Draft - iprnewtool | test_ed | 20 Nov 2015 | Draft - iprnewtool Write here a short description of the course objectives. This will be visible to participants even before they are enrolled in the course. | ||||||||||
Drivers and modifiers of antibiotic prescribing and infection prevention & control practices in healthcare settings | self-paced | 5 May 2022 | Drivers and modifiers of antibiotic prescribing and infection prevention & control practices in healthcare settings 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. | ||||||||||
e-Learning course on introduction to designing in- and after-action reviews | self-paced | 21 May 2021 | e-Learning course on introduction to designing in- and after-action reviews 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:
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e-Learning on Migration and Health for Health Professionals (24 languages) | e-learning from ECDC partners | 25 Feb 2020 | e-Learning on Migration and Health for Health Professionals (24 languages)
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e-Learning on Migration and Health for Law Enforcement Officers (24 languages) | e-learning from ECDC partners | 25 Feb 2020 | e-Learning on Migration and Health for Law Enforcement Officers (24 languages)
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e-Learning on Migration and Health for Social Workers (24 languages) | e-learning from ECDC partners | 25 Feb 2020 | e-Learning on Migration and Health for Social Workers (24 languages)
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e-Learning on Migration and Health for Trainers and Coaches (24 languages) | e-learning from ECDC partners | 1 Nov 2019 | e-Learning on Migration and Health for Trainers and Coaches (24 languages)
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