Epidemic Intelligence eTutorial: A tool to learn more about the detection and assessment of public health threats

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) promotes the implementation of Epidemic Intelligence (EI) activities at EU and national level. EI can be defined as the process to detect, verify, analyse, assess and investigate public health events that may represent a threat to public health.

During the last meeting of the Competent Bodies for Threat Detection of the EU Member States held in Stockholm on the 17-18 February 2011, the ECDC Epidemic Intelligence group presented an open electronic tutorial on Epidemic Intelligence activities. This tutorial aims to illustrate the various Epidemic Intelligence steps in a European context and highlights the role both of EU Member States and of the Centre in promoting health security at the EU level. Please click on the Related Url to access the tutorial.

• Primary Source

ECDC: Epidemic Intelligence tutorial http://external.ecdc.europa.eu/EI_Tutorial/course.htm

ECDC: About us: Competent bodies http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/aboutus/Competent%20bodies/Pages/Competent_bodies.aspx

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