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Courses tagged with "Response"

EUIHS Basic training on Epidemic Intelligence & Rapid Risk Assessment 2025

This training aims to equip public health professionals with the skills to conduct Epidemic Intelligence and Rapid Risk Assessment using the ECDC approach.

Duration: 3 days, 8-10 April 2025.

Audience: The training has been designed for public health professionals in the national public health institutes and ministries of health. Those who actively work in epidemic intelligence, risk assessment, preparedness and response to public health emergencies and who wish to reinforce their knowledge and practice in epidemic intelligence and rapid risk assessment approaches.

Objectives:

· Understand the principles of EI and RRA

· Recognise steps in EI process and RRA production

· Summarise the reasons for doing EI and RRA

· Identify and apply EI and RRA methodology and tools

· Contribute to a team working on EI process and RRA production

· Promote dialogue and exchanges among countries

Participation: The participants are nominated by ECDC National Correspondents from the EU Eastern Neighbourhood Policy partner countries

Category: 2025 catalogue

Infodemic management during infectious disease outbreaks 2025

This workshop aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to implement infodemic management in national settings during infectious disease outbreaks. It fosters regional collaboration by exploring challenges, opportunities, and benefits while providing practical tools and strategies to detect, track, and manage infodemics during public health emergencies.

Duration: 2 days, 19-20 February 2025.

Audience: The workshop is designed for staff who might have a role in overseeing or implementing infodemic management activities and for professionals working in public health institutions in roles relating to emergency communication preparedness and response.

Objectives:

Gain a deeper understanding of infodemics, their impact on public health, and their management during health emergencies.
Learn to detect and track infodemics using various tools and technologies, with a focus on social listening and mapping information ecosystems to identify vulnerable communities.
Explore the behavioural and socio-cultural factors influencing the acceptance and spread of false information, and apply these insights to national contexts.
Examine practical interventions to counter false narratives online, emphasising the role of intersectoral collaboration in managing infodemics.
Develop national infodemic management plans through group exercises and peer evaluations.

Participation: The participants are nominated by ECDC National Correspondents from the EU Neighbourhood Policy partner countries

Category: 2025 catalogue

Introduction to designing in- and after-action reviews e-learning course

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

Duration: 90-120 minutes.

Audience: General preparedness experts.

Objectives: On completing of the course, participants will be able to:

Explain most important characteristics and phases to construct a good quality AAR;
Differentiate the methodologies and designs for AARs;
Select a methodology coherent with the scope of an AAR;
Understand the importance of a stakeholder analysis select/develop relevant trigger questions; and
Assess lessons learned through the AAR process.

Participation: This course is open for public enrolment.

Introduction to Infectious Disease Preparedness micro learning

This course aims to outline the preparedness cycle as applied to infectious diseases. It intends to present, in a light and engaging manner, the various areas of work of the preparedness cycle at large and explain how they relate to one another. Each work area is further described, providing access to useful tools and asking a few questions along the way to ensure learners' understanding.

Duration: 30 min.

Audience: This course is intended for people who need to interact with infectious diseases preparedness teams, as well as for those who have a basic understanding of what preparedness is and wish to learn more, such as health professionals, policy-makers, communicators, academics, and local community leaders, among others.

Objectives: On completing the course, participants will be able to:

Define what preparedness is, and its related concepts;
Identify the different stakeholders involved in preparedness; and
Identify assessment tools to facilitate preparedness.

Participation: This course is open for public enrolment.

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:

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.

Participation:

Understanding Vaccine Acceptance & Strategies to Increase Vaccine Uptake

This e-learning course, developed in November 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, aims at increasing understanding of the drivers of vaccine acceptance and design targeted strategies to increase vaccine uptake.

⏳ Duration: 30 minutes

👥 Audience: Healthcare workers, health promoters/health promotion managers, civil society organisations working at national and sub-national levels working on vaccination or in vaccination programs. Public health and risk communication professionals may also be interested in the concepts and strategies introduced.

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

Describe the 5C model and advocate for its use in diagnosing barriers to vaccine acceptance and uptake, and in designing adapted strategies.

Describe why diagnosing the barriers to vaccine acceptance and uptake is essential, and recognise the data collection tools that may be used.
Understand the need to evaluate behaviour change interventions, and describe how this may be done considering the complexity of causality in behavioural interventions.

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