Call for Applications for the 2025 EPIET and EUPHEM Cohort
The Fellowship Programme of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) offers specialized training with a focus on Field Epidemiology (EPIET) and Public Health Microbiology (EUPHEM). Over the course of the two-year programme, participants will have the opportunity to deepen their expertise in key areas. The core competency areas include, among others, infectious disease surveillance, outbreak management, public health esearch, laboratory investigations, communication, teaching, statistical analysis, laboratory quality management, and handling biological hazards.
The application deadline is October 22, 2024, and the programme starts on September 15, 2025. The Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE) at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) works closely with these programmes as an EPIET-associated programme.
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The Robert Koch Institute is the public health institute in Germany. Around 1,500 people including 700 scientists work here. Learn more about the tasks and projects of the institute’s departments and units.
Robert Koch – who was he and what does the Robert Koch Institute do today? The RKI informative film provides an overview over the institute in two and a half minutes – in German, English and French.
The Robert Koch Institute is a global health hub. The institute cooperates closely with partner countries and institution from all over the world in order to investigate pathogens, tackle outbreaks, provide reliable diagnostics, train staff and more.
Especially in the cold season, respiratory viruses are circulating in the population, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza, RSV and various cold viruses. RKI provides regular information on the current situation in Germany and recommendations.
Robert Koch Institute's federal health reporting continuously informs about the health status of people in Germany - in various reports as well as in the Journal of Public Health (available also in English).
The German Centre for Cancer Registry Data at RKI combines, checks and analyses data from the population-based cancer registries of the German federal states.
