From the EAN Board

Submitted by floX on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 08:44

ESCAIDE
EAN is involved in the organization of the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) also this year. ESCAIDE will take place from 26-28 October 2009 (Monday to Wednesday). The conference venue will be the München Bryggeriet which is centrally located in Stockholm. The call for abstracts was opened and the deadline is 3rd July 2009. Make sure to submit your abstracts online at www.escaide.eu.

The Outreach Project for ESCAIDE
The Outreach project has been launched by the EAN for the upcoming ESCAIDE (see Spring 09 Newsletter or contact eanboard@gmail.com for details). 11 target countries have been identified; 8 member states and 3 accession countries. One has already been contacted and has responded positively.
Letters, encouraging abstract preparation and submission and offering supervisory and travel grant support, will shortly be sent out to further contacts in all 11 countries. Thanks to ECDC for support with the contact details for this initiative.
Recruiting new members The EAN is growing. We have now 209 members. Many external epidemiologists and alumni of the European field training programs are joining the EAN. All epidemiologists from European Training programs can automatically join the EAN and external applicants are also welcome. External applications need to be endorsed by 2 EAN members. Anyone interested in becoming a member should contact eanboard@gmail.com.

EAN membership fees
The yearly membership fee is €20. New fellows are exempt from this for the first year of their fellowship. Starting from the second year of fellowship every member should pay the fee.
We kindly ask you to contact Gianfranco (gfspiteri@gmail.com) and/or Chris (kitwilliams@doctors.org.uk), the EAN Treasurers, in case you want to get information on your membership payment. You should all have received a reminder about this: so please, make arrangements for overdue payments if you have not already done so. We also
encourage you to pay for more than one year so to secure your membership for a longer period of time and avoid duplicating banking costs. Please contact Gianfranco before the transfer & indicate your name and membership year as reference.

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