26 Sep 2022 – 14 Oct 2022
Spetses, Greece
MediPIET
The first module for the fifth MediPIET Cohort “ECDC Fellowship Introductory Course 2022” was organised from 26 September – 14 October in Spetses, Greece. The MediPIET fellows stayed in Spetses until 7 October, whereas EPIET/EUPHEM/PAE fellows stayed until 14 October.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/medipiet-cohort-5-introductory-course
A total of 58 fellows from 30 countries attended the induction course, including new Cohort 5 MediPIET fellows from Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Kosovo*, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, North Macedonia, Palestine **, Serbia, and Tunisia.
The training aimed to provide the fellows with an introduction to field epidemiology, public health microbiology, risk assessment and outbreak investigations.
During the 2-week long introductory course participants learned how to:
- Analyse surveillance data
- Propose public health control measures and recommendations based on investigation or research findings
- Apply simple statistics to analyse epidemiological and laboratory data
- Analyse associations between exposures and outcomes, with consideration of bias, confounding and effect modifications
- Develop a detailed protocol for an applied public health research project
- Communicate relevant public health information to various stakeholders (e.g., scientists, press, public, decision makers), and
- Design and evaluate a public health learning event
