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ECDC: On Air

ECDC: On Air

By European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

A peek behind the scenes at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - the EU agency that aims to identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health posed by infectious diseases in Europe.

Hear from our experts on a wide range of topics as they discuss the things that matter, and give you a crash course in Epidemiology 101.

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Episode 1 - Andrea Ammon - The Director's Insights

ECDC: On AirAug 04, 2021

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Episode 50 - Carlos Carvalho - The Power of Digital Health Data
Mar 27, 202432:54
Episode 49 - Nick Bundle - Why Monitoring Respiratory Viruses Matters
Mar 21, 202425:20
Episode 48 - Otilia Mårdh - Let's Talk About (Safe) Sex
Mar 07, 202422:51
Episode 47 - Ines Steffens - Eurosurveillance
Feb 27, 202422:42
Episode 46 - Special Feature - Five Scientists - One Health

Episode 46 - Special Feature - Five Scientists - One Health

Today's episode is special one, and is hosted by James Ramsey, Head of the Communication Unit at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He is joined by experts from ECDC, EFSA, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Environment Agency (EEA), and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to discuss the One Health prespective.

Our well-being depends on the health of animals, plants and our environment. What affects one affects all the others, and increasingly so.

A One Health perspective is about joining forces to find integrated solutions to common challenges such as climate change and antibiotic resistance. Join us to hear from experts at five EU scientific agencies about how we can put One Health into practice. Whether safeguarding access to life-saving medicines or combating the next pandemic, a One Health approach will be essential to how our society navigates the future.  

Host: James Ramsay, Head of the Communication Unit at EFSA

Guests:

Mike Catchpole, Chief Scientist at the ⁠European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)⁠

Carlos das Neves, Chief Scientist at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

Dario Piselli, Expert in environment and health at the European Environment Agency (EEA)

Wim De Coen, Head of Hazard Assessment at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)

Steffen Thirstrup, Chief Medical Officer at the European Medicines Agency (EMA)


EFSA's Science on the Menu podcast

ECHA's Safer Chemicals podcast

For more information in general please visit ⁠⁠ecdc.europa.eu⁠⁠ or follow us on ⁠⁠social media⁠⁠.

Feb 15, 202423:56
Episode 45 - Theresa Enkirch - A Closer Look At Viruses
Dec 20, 202316:32
Episode 44 - Anastasia Pharris - World AIDS Day 2023

Episode 44 - Anastasia Pharris - World AIDS Day 2023

Every year World AIDS Day⁠ is marked on the 1st of December. Beginning in 1988 as the first-ever international day for global health, it is now in its 35th year.

We sat down with Anastasia Pharris, Principal expert in Communicable Diseases, to discuss the latest joint ECDC-WHO Europe HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe report to take stock of where Europe stands with the latest developments, challenges, and achievements.

As a part of World AIDS Day, ECDC will host a digital event on ⁠HIV: Towards zero stigmaon the 6th of December 2023. The event is open to the public and will focus on the recent insights on HIV stigma in Europe, how it is perceived in different contexts, and examples of good practices to ensure that the goal of zero stigma is achieved.


You can find more information on the surveillance report ⁠here⁠.  

For more information in general please visit ⁠ecdc.europa.eu⁠ or follow us on ⁠social media⁠.

Dec 01, 202316:16
Episode 43 - Gianfranco Spiteri - Artificial (Epidemic) Intelligence

Episode 43 - Gianfranco Spiteri - Artificial (Epidemic) Intelligence

Is the artificial intelligence going to take our jobs? Or will it change the daily work of the ECDC experts looking for epidemic signals? Perhaps it already does?

In this episode we sit down for a chat with Gianfranco Spiteri - ECDC's Group Leader in the Epidemic Intelligence team to take a look at the recent AI developments and what the new tools can bring to his daily work.

Find more information about ECDC's work on our portal here: ecdc.europa.eu

Nov 15, 202319:30
Episode 42 - Joaquin Baruch - Epidemiology in the Field
Sep 08, 202327:42
Episode 41 - Gaetano Marrone - Statistically Speaking
Jul 05, 202316:06
Episode 40 - Vanja Nikolac Markic, Francois-Xavier Lamy & Jenny Mohseni Skoglund - SOHO
Jun 14, 202312:26
Episode 39 - Georgios Theocharopoulos - ECDC4AfricaCDC
Jun 09, 202318:41
Episode 38 - Orla Condell - A Health Emergency Task Force
May 30, 202316:59
Episode 37 - Diamantis Plachouras - All (Clean) Hands on Deck
May 05, 202317:48
Episode 36 - Bruno Ciancio - End of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Apr 28, 202316:15
Episode 35 - Piotr Kramarz - The Solidarity of Vaccination

Episode 35 - Piotr Kramarz - The Solidarity of Vaccination

European Immunization Week (EIW) is marked across Europe every year in the final week of April. It aims to raise awareness of the importance of immunisation for the general health and well-being of the European and wider population.

To mark the start of EIW, we have invited the ECDC's Deputy Chief Scientist - Piotr Kramarz to talk about the importance of vaccination, the hurdles and current issues we need to overcome.

You can find ECDC's information on vaccines here.

For general information about ECDC, please visit ⁠ecdc.europa.eu⁠, or follow us on ⁠social media⁠.

Apr 24, 202315:50
Episode 34 - Senia Rosales-Klintz - Yes! We Can End TB!
Mar 24, 202326:01
Episode 33 - Andrea Ammon - A Strengthened ECDC Mandate
Mar 20, 202320:14
Episode 32 - Cornelia Adlhoch - Avian Flu: Spilling Over?
Mar 13, 202319:42
Episode 31 - Erik Alm - New SARS-CoV-2 Mutations – Should We Worry?
Mar 03, 202329:19
Episode 30 - Joana Gomes Dias - The Answers in Numbers
Jan 31, 202312:24
Episode 29 - Barbara Albiger - The Endangered Science
Dec 22, 202242:31
Episode 28 - Liselotte Diaz-Högberg - The Emptying Medicine Cabinet
Nov 18, 202215:19
Episode 27 - Laura Espinosa - There's Something in the Baltic Sea
Oct 25, 202210:16
Episode 26 - Cornelia Adlhoch - Preparing For the Flu Season
Oct 19, 202211:25
Episode 25 - Catalin Bercaru & Niklas Bergstrand - Ukraine: Emergency Response & Communication
Sep 20, 202229:40
Episode 24 - Svetla Tsolova - How Do We Prepare Communities?
Aug 12, 202221:44
Episode 23 - Paul Riley - Bioterrorism & biosecurity: how to make sure we stay safe?
Jul 27, 202217:30
Episode 22 - Agoritsa Baka - What Do You Know About Monkeypox?
Jul 06, 202212:42
Episode 21 - Erika Duffell - An Unsolved Hepatitis Mystery
Jun 10, 202221:54
Episode 20 - Lara Payne-Hallström - Risk in the Mist
May 31, 202218:10
Episode 19 - Johanna Takkinen - Signs of Serious Salmonella
Apr 15, 202215:08
Episode 18 - Piotr Kramarz - Aiding Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
Apr 08, 202220:29
Episode 17 - Rob van Hest - Tuberculosis Capture-Recapture for Dummies

Episode 17 - Rob van Hest - Tuberculosis Capture-Recapture for Dummies

In recognition of World Tuberculosis day on March 24th, we will be hearing from Rob van Hest, Public Health TB Control Physician and Epidemiologist in the Regional Public Health Service of Groningen, Netherlands. Rob has extensive experience in TB screening and treatment, especially among urban risk groups such as the homeless and high-risk drug users, as well as asylum seekers. You will hear Rob discussing capture/recapture analysis, a method of measuring the impact of TB, its spread and control, and how to combat under-reporting.

This recording was made before the covid-19 pandemic began.

You can find more information about TB here.

For more information about ECDC, please visit ecdc.europa.eu, or follow us on Social Media.

Dr Rob van Hest's PhD on Capture-recapture methods in surveillance of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.

Eurosurveillance article on the Completeness of tuberculosis (TB) notification: inventory studies and capture-recapture analyses, six European Union countries, 2014 to 2016.

Dr. Rob van Hest (MD, MSc, PhD) works as a Public Health TB Control Physician and Epidemiologist in the Regional Public Health Service of Groningen. He has extensive experience in TB screening and treatment. In 2007 he completed a PhD thesis on the use of capture-recapture techniques for the surveillance of TB and other infectious diseases.

Mar 23, 202215:35
Episode 16 - Laura Espinosa - Tweet-Based Epidemiology
Mar 09, 202219:56
Episode 15 - Cornelia Adlhoch - Avian Flu and the Cathedral of Silence
Feb 23, 202217:16
Episode 14 - René Niehus - Mathematical Super Models
Jan 25, 202219:18
Episode 13 - Julien Beauté - Disease Data Hub
Jan 12, 202216:42
Episode 12 - Jordi Borrell Pique - 27 Cases of Pneumonia

Episode 12 - Jordi Borrell Pique - 27 Cases of Pneumonia

The 31st of December 2019 began as normal for Jordi Borrell Pique, the Epidemic Intelligence Officer on duty for ECDC. Soon, media reports began to arrive of patients showing signs of a ‘pneumonia of unknown etiology’ linked to a wet market in Wuhan. For this episode, we sit down with Jordi to recount those early days of COVID-19 at ECDC and remember how quickly things changed. For more information about COVID-19 and ECDC, please visit us at ecdc.europa.eu or follow us on social media.

Dec 15, 202122:49
Episode 11 - Teymur Noori - World AIDS Day - Achieving Zero Deaths in Europe
Dec 01, 202131:40
Episode 10 - Olivier Briet - Mosquito-borne Diseases and Their Spread in Europe
Nov 17, 202114:33
Episode 9 - Pasi Penttinen - Everything You Wanted to Know About the Flu (But Didn't Ask)
Oct 13, 202127:05
Episode 8 - Andrea Ammon - Community Engagement for Health Emergencies
Sep 29, 202134:05
Episode 7 - Tarik Derrough - Bringing Vaccination Experts Together
Sep 22, 202117:45
Episode 6 - Adam Roth - The Disease Detectives

Episode 6 - Adam Roth - The Disease Detectives

September 7th is World Field Epidemiology Day so we sat down with Adam Roth, Head of Fellowship Programmes at ECDC to talk about what field epidemiology is, and about the fellowship pathways, EPIET and EUPHEM, that ECDC offers.

"This is intervention epidemiology, it should make a difference."

More information on TEPHINET is available here.

Sep 07, 202117:58
Episode 5 - John Kinsman - Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation
Sep 01, 202127:11
Episode 4 - Piotr Kramarz - Giving the Immune System a Boost
Aug 18, 202118:45
Episode 3 - Agoritsa Baka - How Prepared Can We Be?

Episode 3 - Agoritsa Baka - How Prepared Can We Be?

For this episode, we look into how well prepared can we be for public health threats with Dr Agoritsa Baka - public health preparedness expert at ECDC. 

"You need to be able to talk and engage with your community"

Aug 04, 202119:52
Episode 2 - Thomas Mollet - Looking for Signals

Episode 2 - Thomas Mollet - Looking for Signals

For the second episode, we look at epidemiological signals with Dr Thomas Mollet - group lead for the ECDC Epidemic Intelligence team, and how important these signals can be in detecting outbreaks. 

"We are basically hunters of information.”

Aug 04, 202124:16
Episode 1 - Andrea Ammon - The Director's Insights

Episode 1 - Andrea Ammon - The Director's Insights

To begin this audio series, we chat with the ECDC Director, Dr Andrea Ammon on ECDC's past, present and future and what the current pandemic can bring into the European overview of infectious diseases. 

"Like building an aeroplane while you're flying."

Aug 04, 202122:58