From the EPIET Program

Submitted by humbleservant on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 17:23

The selection of the 15th cohort of EPIET fellows has started. The applications have been scanned for basic eligibility and made available to the EPIET Training Site Forum or Competent Bodies for Training in the countries of origin of the candidates. The score of these "sending countries" will be taken into account in the decision of the EPIET Selection Panel to invite the candidate to the interview round in Stockholm. The interviews with the EPIET Selection Panel will take place from May 11-13, the interviews with the training sites on May 14.
Marie-Anne Botrel from INVS, France and Katharina Alpers from RKI, Germany have recently joined the EPIET coordinating team.
Marie-AnneMarie-AnneMarie-Anne is an epidemiologist with a veterinary background who worked for about 15 years at the French Food Safety Agency before joining the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance last January. She now works part time for EPIET and part time for PROFET (French Field Epidemiology Training Programme).

KatharinaKatharinaKatharina has been the coordinator of the Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE, German FETP) since September 2007 and as such has started to collaborate more closely with EPIET. She is a specialist in medical microbiology and tropical diseases and an EPIET alumna (cohort 6).
Please find more news on the EPIET program at the EPIET website:
http://www.epiet.org/news/index.html