Epidemiology

Is Zika epidemic a lose-lose game for WHO?

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 09:02

Declaring an emergency is a dirty work, but someone has to do it. When facing a serious threat to global public health, even if complete evidence is lacking, someone has to take the responsibility to push the red button that activates a chain of coordinated actions (such as cooperation among states and research on vaccines). Choosing to do this, the risk of giving a false alarm is unavoidable.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Media, Prevention
Tags: 
zika, H1N1, risk communication, Risk perception, WHO, gender issues, CDC

Looking at Zika from a gender perspective

Monday, January 25, 2016 - 16:32

The Zika virus has been recently identified in Europe after having spread in Brazil, where its first infection was confirmed in March 2015. Despite being relatively mild, this virus is now making headlines, as it could be responsible of a large increase of microcephaly among infants. A connection that pushed Brazil to declare Zika a public health emergency.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender
Tags: 
zika, outbreak, gender issues

Intensive Care Units are a canary in a coal mine

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 17:54
H1N1 Influenza Virus Particles

During the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic, the issue of how many deaths were associated to the emerging virus was one of the main causes of misunderstanding between authorities and the general public, which ended in a worrying lack of trust. The pandemic, initially presented as a potential serious threat, in the end was no more severe than a common seasonal flu. Unfortunately, even nowadays, it is difficult to ascertain if and how much H1N1 pandemic was different from any other seasonal flu, based on official data.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Microbiology, Prevention
Tags: 
H1N1, flu, influenza, Surveillance

17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 09:00

The 17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID) will encompass all aspects of infectious diseases with particular attention to the major challenges in the South Asia region (such as HIV, tuberculosis, pneumonia and the enteric infections typhoid fever and diarrhea) and a focus on disease prevention and vaccination. In addition, the significant challenges of neglected tropical diseases will be discussed.

For further information visit the site. 

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
infectious disease, Event

EPIDEMICS 5: 5th International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 09:00

Epidemics 5 will bring together international delegates for three days of intense dialogue on ideas, data, insight, models and methods in the field of infectious disease dynamics. Invited plenary speakers will lead a topical programme supplemented by around 80 contributed oral presentations and lively and stimulating poster sessions. A short course "Using genomic data to uncover the dynamics of infectious diseases" will take place on December 1, in advance of the main conference.

Topics include:

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
epidemiology, Event

Incidence, Severity, and Impact of Influenza 2016

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 09:00

This meeting is organized by The International Society of Influenza and Respiratory Viruses (isirv). It aims to bring together more than 150 international scientists, health care professionals, and public health officials to discuss the assessment of the impact of epidemics of influenza and other respiratory viruses, including the incidence of infections, the clinical severity of infections, and the consequent burden of morbidity and mortality.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
influenza, Event

High-level meeting on refugee and migrant health

Monday, November 23, 2015 (All day)

Ministers and senior representatives of Member States in the European Region will meet to discuss the numerous public health challenges posed by large-scale movements of refugees and migrants to transit and destination countries. These range from management of communicable and noncommunicable diseases to the impact of large-scale migration on health systems. Given the inter-regional relevance of this topic, ministers from the main countries of origin and of transit of refugees and migrants – in the Eastern Mediterranean and African regions – are also invited.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Human Rights, Policy
Tags: 
migrants, refugees, WHO

The European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE)

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 (All day)

The 2015 ESCAIDE conference will take place on 11-13 November 2015. It will be hosted at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, in the heart of the city. The ESCAIDE programme will offer a huge range of exciting presentations, posters, seminars and workshops on all aspects of infectious disease prevention and control.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Microbiology, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Epidemics, infection, Surveillance, public health

Mathematics and epidemiology in Erice

September 17, 2015

From August 30 to September 5, the “Ettore Majorana” Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice hosted the “Mathematical and Computational Epidemiology of Infectious diseases” international conference. Aim of this event was to illustrate the major areas of research in mathematical and computational modelling of the spread of infectious diseases, and the huge variety of tools and approaches that are currently employed.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Policy, Prevention, Vaccination
Tags: 
mathematics, Video

Tackling diseases through the Net

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 12:52

Monitoring health on a large scale through Big Data or using social networks to modify behaviour and risk factors are two relevant examples of how cutting edge technology may provide new and powerful tools against infectious diseases.

Many public and private agencies and bodies gather data from social networks and search engines to try and identify health emergencies and solve the problem: the most common approach is to analyze the search strings used by Google and the texts of blogs, forums and other pages on the Net.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Social Media
Tags: 
Social media, technology

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