From the EPIET Program

Submitted by floX on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 09:29

Selection of Cohort 15
The selection of the 15th cohort of EPIET fellows has been conducted in Stockholm between 11 and 14 May 2009. The face-to-face interviews for the selection of cohort 15 took place in an airport hotel in Stockholm, Sweden from May 11-14, 2009. The candidates were first interviewed by the EPIET/ECDC selection committee that ranked all candidates that were short-listed during the first rounds. EAN was represented by Barbara Schimmer (cohort 10 and EAN President) in the EPIET/ECDC selection committee.
After the first face-to-face round with the selection committee on Monday and Tuesday, most candidates went on to the next face-to-face round with the institutes. First on Wednesday morning there was an informal information market where host sites got the opportunity to present their activities to the candidates. On Wednesday afternoon, the candidates got interviews with host sites representatives and had to submit their ranking of their preferred host institutes. Based on all the rankings, such as the ranking of the selection committee, the ranking of the institutes by the candidates and the ranking of candidates by the institutes, the matching meeting took place on Thursday morning to match the candidates with a host institute. Also a waiting list of candidates that could not be placed was made. The final list of selected fellows will be published in the next EAN newsletter. We look forward to welcome the new cohort!

EPIET is under evaluation
EPIET was created in 1995 by the European Commission (DG-Sanco) and EU Member States and provides training and practical experience in intervention epidemiology at the national centres for surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the European Union (EU).
It has been almost 15 years already since the program started and it is time to see how we are doing. For this reason, ECDC launched a tender to Evaluate Epiet. The main purpose is to evaluate in an independent and external approach if the established objectives and programme of work has a relevant contribution to the field epidemiology workforce strengthening in the EU. The evaluation should also identify possible shortcomings and possible improvements necessary to its structure, management and working practices. The application closed on the 3rd of June and we are very curious to see who will take this great task on their shoulders.
More info at:
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Procurement/Competitions/PROC_2009_015/Default....