Apply to the fellowship programme
Description
The European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) is a fellowship programme, which provides training and practical experience in intervention epidemiology at the national and regional centres for surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the European Union (EU). The programme is aimed at EU medical practitioners, public-health nurses, microbiologists, veterinarians and other health professionals with previous experience in public health and a keen interest in epidemiology. The programme is integrated at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control as of November 2007.The EPIET fellowships last two years. Up to ten percent of the time is taken up by formal training courses and the remainder by a placement at a training site in a European country different from the fellow's country of origin.
Read more about the programme.
Requirements and desirable qualities of candidates for the fellowship
The following criteria are used to choose 8 -16 fellows from the more than 150 applicants who have so far applied every year to the EPIET programme:A. Formal requirements In order to be an eligible candidate you need to have a set of formal requirements. These requirements are:
- A level of post-secondary education attested by a diploma in public health or a related subject, preferably at the level of a Master degree or equivalent;
- At least one year practice in public health or epidemiology;
- To have a thorough knowledge of at least two official languages of the European Union;
- To be a national of a Member State of the European Union or Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway;
- To be entitled to his or her full rights as citizen;
- To have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws concerning military service;
- To meet the character requirements for the duties involved;
- To be physically fit to perform the duties linked to the tasks.
- Proven experience in public health and/or epidemiology;
- Good scientific skills and a basic knowledge of epidemiology;
- Strong commitment to continue field epidemiology in EU after the two-year EPIET fellowship;
- Good command of English; oral and written;
- Basic computer skills.
- Good organizational skills;
- Ability to work under pressure and manage responsibilities.
- Sense of independence and inventiveness which would enable a personal input into the programme;
- Sufficient international exposure to interact cautiously with the different cultures, laws and requirements in the Member States;
In order to fulfil the requirements of the EPIET fellowship, applicants need to have a level of education corresponding to completed university studies of at least 3 years attested by a diploma.
Selection Process
All applications are received at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, in Stockholm, Sweden. View Advert For applications to be valid, you must submit by email-
A detailed curriculum vitae in
European format
(available in http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu ) - A letter of motivation
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The eligibility and selection
criteria grid completed
(see the vacancy notice at http://ecdc.europa.eu/Recruitment.html)
A joint ECDC/EPIET selection committee forwards all applications to the applicants' respective countries of origin in the EU or Norway. Using standardised criteria each country advices the panel about candidates and returns a final ranking of its national candidates to the joint ECDC/EPIET selection committee which selects the candidates for the next recruiting step.
All selected candidates receive a list of host fellowship training sites and are asked to express their choice of training site. The training sites then receive a list of applicants who wish to be placed with them and the applicants' curricula vitae.
Face to face interview with selected candidates and training sites supervisors is then organised in Stockholm. All selected candidates are interviewed by the joint ECDC/EPIET selection committee. Finally, the joint ECDC/EPIET selection committee consults the members of the EPIET executive board and the training programme coordinators, before making a final list of candidates for each training site. The process aims at achieving the optimal spread of involvement among participating countries. Read more about the selection process.
The successful applicants will be required to take up their fellowship on 16 September 2008 when the programme starts. No later starting date is foreseen.
The programme is advertised at ECDC website, the EPIET website and through the EPIET network. View Advert.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact ex-EPIET fellows, current EPIET fellows, and the site supervisors, to obtain additional information about the training sites.
Please contact Anna Bohlin (anna.bohlin@ecdc.europa.eu) to get the contact list. EPIET coordinators can also be contacted for further information regarding the training programme. Applications preferably in the working language of the Centre, which is English, should be sent by e-mail in Word or PDF format to ecdc.epietfellow@ecdc.europa.eu clearly indicating the vacancy reference (ECDC/CA/II/2008/FEF) and your family name in the Subject line. The application will be rejected if the dossier is incomplete.
Due to the large volume of applications only applicants selected for interviews will be notified.
Closing date for the submission of applications is 10 February 2008, at 24.00 CET.