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TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR INTERVENTION EPIDEMIOLOGY IN EUROPE

The European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training started in 1995. The programme is funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and by various EU member states as well as WHO, Switzerland and Norway. Subject to agreement for another round of funding, the fourteenth cohort of fellows is planned, starting in September 2008. The programme invites applications for up to sixteen fellowships for this 24-month training programme in communicable disease field epidemiology.

Fellowships 

Applicants for the fellowship of the 2008 cohort must be nationals of a EU member country, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway and should have experience in public health, a keen interest in fieldwork and be pursuing a career involving public health infectious disease epidemiology. They should have a good knowledge of English and of at least one other official language of the European Union, and be prepared to live abroad for a period of 24 months.

Aim of the Training

The aim of the training is to enable the fellow to assume service responsibilities in communicable disease epidemiology. The in-service training will focus on outbreak investigations, disease surveillance, applied research, and communications with decision makers, the media, the public and the scientific community.
Fellows will attend a three-week intensive introductory course and then be located in a host institute in one of the 25 participating European countries, Switzerland and Norway. Further training modules are organised during the two-year programme, normally in one of the participating national institutes with responsibility for communicable disease surveillance.
Detailed information about the EPIET programme can be obtained from the EPIET programme website at www.epiet.org. Vacancy notice for application can be found on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control at http://ecdc.europa.eu/Recruitment.html Applications must be submitted electronically by 10 February 2008 24:00 CET to ecdc.epietfellow@ecdc.europa.eu.