Discover how integrating human, animal, and environmental health can address complex global challenges.
You will learn to apply the One Health Theory of Change to design effective and collaborative strategies for holistic health and gain tools to drive sustainable initiatives and promote a positive impact on our interconnected world.
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Audience: EU/EEA Member States Animal Health, Environmental Health and Public Health professionals who would like to collaborate with other sectors using a One Health approach or further structure and formalise their multisectoral collaboration activities when it comes to communicable disease prevention, surveillance, control or preparedness.
Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the One Health approach, its local implications, global interconnectivity and how it affects health conditions in the population.
- Describe the changing nature, key factors and resources that shape One Health to influence actions (emergency preparedness planning and response) at the local and international levels.
- Cite examples of multisectoral evidence-based guidelines and systems for surveillance, prevention and control of diseases and other acute public health events.
Participation: This course is free and open to all, thanks to EU funding. You can browse the content as a guest, but you must log in and enrol to receive a certificate of completion.
Explore the concepts of social and behavioural theories, models and frameworks in the context on infectious disease prevention.
You will learn how theories and models underpin frameworks to help understand the behaviour change process, demonstrate how they are integrated and discover and apply the World Health Organization's principles and steps for applying a behavioural perspective to Public Health.
Duration: 60-90 minutes.
Audience: Public Health professionals from European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries working in the field of infectious diseases prevention and control and interested in developing behavioural and/or social sciences interventions.
Objectives:
- Define and distinguish the concepts of behavioural theories, models and frameworks.
- Explain the key components of the World Health Organization’s principles and steps for applying a behavioural perspective to public health, as well as the advantages of using this framework in the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions for behaviour change.
- Explain how models and theories are important for underpinning frameworks to help understand the behaviour change process and their potential role in the context of infectious disease prevention and management.
- Demonstrate how theories, models and frameworks can be integrated and applied to prevention and control of infectious disease.
Participation: This is a PILOT, once completed, the course will be open for public enrolment.
This two-half-day training course introduces participants to participants to the major pathotypes of the diverse pathogenic E. coli, and to the genetic virulence factors that characterise them.
The course includes an exercise to reinforce practical understanding.
Dates: 3 and 10 March 2026.
Duration: Two half-days 09:00-12:30 CET.
Location: Online - Find the link after enrolment.
Audience: Microbiologists, clinicians, and epidemiologists with basic bioinformatics skills
Objectives:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the biological diversity within the E. coli pathotypes and the significance for their virulence.
- Perform quality control and assembly of whole‑genome sequencing (WGS) data.
- Analyse and interpret the different sub-typing methods, including MLST, cgMLST, and serotyping of E. coli.
- Perform virulence profiling and typing using simple bioinformatics tools and determine/suggest the resulting pathotype by employing various virulence gene databases.
- Identify real-life challenges in tracing emerging clones of pathogenic E. coli.
Participation: This course is open for public enrolment. It's made available for free, thanks to EU funding.
The aim of this virtual training workshop is to provide participants with insights from research and public health experts involved in the surveillance of diverse viral and bacterial pathogens that are known to mutate and escape established immunization methods over time. The training also includes a practical hands-on experience of bioinformatic tools used for the detection of the whooping-cough agent’s antigens and tracking of strain evolution. Finally, the course offers a forward-looking perspective on pandemic preparedness, exploring how emerging approaches—including AI-driven antigen prediction—could enable faster and more adaptive responses, particularly in vaccine development.
Dates: 23 and 25 March 2026.
Duration: Two half-days 09:00-12:30 CET.
Location: Online - Find the link after enrolment.
Audience: Public health microbiologists, epidemiologists, or bioinformaticians interested in learning about antigen evolution and novel immunization strategies.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Explain the genetic and evolutionary mechanisms underlying antigenic variation and immune escape in bacterial and viral pathogens.
- Describe how genomic surveillance supports the detection and monitoring of antigenic evolution, vaccine escape, and reduced vaccine effectiveness.
- Interpret examples of antigen-driven pathogen evolution using case studies from SARS-CoV-2, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and Bordetella pertussis.
- Apply bioinformatic tools to detect antigen variants and track strain evolution, using pertussis as a practical use case.
- Recognise emerging approaches in pandemic preparedness, including the role of AI-driven antigen prediction and accelerated vaccine development pipelines.
Participation: This course is open for public enrolment.
Explore the critical role of behavioural and social research in understanding, controlling, and preventing infectious diseases.
You will learn about the methodologies that can be used and the insights that can be gained through quantitative and qualitative research approaches, learn to craft a comprehensive research project and discover how to choose the most effective data collection methods. .
Duration: 45-60 minutes.
Audience: Public Health professionals from European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries working in the field of infectious diseases prevention and control and interested in developing behavioural and/or social sciences interventions.
Objectives:
- Explain the importance of conducting behavioural and social research for understanding, controlling, and preventing infectious diseases.
- Compare quantitative and qualitative behavioural and social research approaches.
- Describe the specificities of behavioural and social science research projects or protocols, including research questions formulation, research designs, sampling strategies, and ethical considerations.
- Select data collection methods for different purposes.
Participation: This is a PILOT, once completed, the course will be open for public enrolment.
This training programme aims at increasing the capacities of European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) Member States, West Balkans, and Türkiye to prepare for and respond to health threats. A central focus is on promoting cooperation in emergency preparedness and response in the context of serious cross-border threats to health (SCBTH).
Duration:The programme includes eight modules delivered over five months, beginning on 10 February 2026. The total workload is approximately 112 hours. The programme includes a five- and a two-day in-person workshop. These are complemented by 16 weeks of online activities and self-studies, averaging around four hours per week.
Location: The training will be delivered through a mix of online and in-person components:
Online delivery:
- Modules 1 and 3–7 will be conducted through webinars and self-study.
In-person workshops:
- Module 2: Stockholm, Sweden – 23-27 February 2026
- Module 8: Stockholm, Sweden – 9-10 June 2026
Audience: The programme is primarily intended for mid-level health professionals, working in public health organisations and Ministries of Health in EU/EEA Member States, EU candidate and potential candidate countries, who would like to develop their role in Emergency Preparedness and Response.
Objectives: After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Explain key principles of public health emergency preparedness and response.
- Apply key principles of public health emergency preparedness and response in your national context and in coordination with neighbouring countries in cross-border settings.
- Effectively communicate and transfer acquired knowledge and best practices to peers within your own organisations.
Participation: The training programme is only available for selected participants nominated by National Focal Points.
Keywords: Preparedness cycle, European Union preparedness plan, anticipation, response, recovery.
This webinar will provide an overview of the serological studies and their use in the surveillance of influenza and respiratory viruses, as well as in the response and risk assessment of emergent respiratory viruses.
The course will be conducted by the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Portugal, partner of the consortium “AURORAE - lAboratory sUppoRt fOr influenza and coRonA for Europe”, under contract of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). AURORAE has the objective to support countries in building capacities in the areas of diagnosis, detection, identification and characterisation of primarily influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.
Duration: 2-hour webinar on 12th March 2026, 13:00-15:00 CET.
Audience: This Webinar is designed for learners of all levels of expertise in the field of serological studies and laboratory assays for influenza. It is aimed for individuals involved in the influenza and respiratory virus’s diagnosis and/or virological surveillance; anyone interested in serosurveillance and/or in learning more about the applications of serological studies in the surveillance, prevention and control of respiratory viral diseases.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this training, participants should be able to:
- Understand the importance and applicability of the serological studies in the surveillance and response to emerging respiratory viruses;
- Design a protocol for implementing a population serological study for influenza. Understand representativeness, sample size calculation and data collection;
- Recognise the advantages and limitations of the laboratory assays for the detecting antibodies against influenza.
Participation: This training is open for public enrolment. It's made available for free, thanks to EU funding.
The course will be conducted by the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Portugal, parter of the consortium “AURORAE - lAboratory sUppoRt fOr influenza and coRonA for Europe”, under contract of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The development of INSaFLU-TELEVIR and the expansion of its computational capacity have been co-funded by INSA and various projects promoted by the European Union, namely TELEVIR, GENEO and DURABLE.
Duration: 2-hour webinar on 22nd January 2026, 14:00-16:00 CET.
Audience: The Webinar is designed for beginner to advanced learners in the field of clinical metagenomics. The target audience are individuals involved in the diagnosis and/or microbiological surveillance of viral pathogens; beginners in NGS data analysis and bioinformatics; and/or everyone interested in learning more about bionformatics for viral metagenomic detection.
Objectives: After completing this training, the participants should be able to:
- Understand the workflow of INSaFLU-TELEVIR platform for viral metagenomics detection (TELEVIR).
- Describe the steps to analyse and confirm the presence of viruses in a metagenomics sample through the INSaFLU-TELEVIR, from raw next- and third-generation sequencing data to the interpretation of the viral metagenomics report
- Recognise advantages and limitations of the tool.
Tools and Files: The INSaFLU-TELEVIR (https://insaflu.insa.pt/) platform is a free, versatile and user-friendly bioinformatics platform for virus next- and third-generation sequencing data analysis. Various tools (including INSaFLU-TELEVIR) and their respective documentation are already available within the page of this webinar, under "Prepare for the Webinar" section, for you to explore.
Participation: This training was open for public enrolment. Recordings are available for free, thanks to EU funding, to all visitors of the Learning Portal.