1 / 6

Update on EpiNorth

Update on EpiNorth. Olga Klimenko Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Norwegian Institute of Public Health at EpiTrain V, Vilnius, October 26 2007. EpiNews News on conferences, institutes, Eurosurveillance issues etc. EpiNorth Journal EpiNorth Data

justice
Télécharger la présentation

Update on EpiNorth

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Update on EpiNorth Olga Klimenko Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Norwegian Institute of Public Health at EpiTrain V, Vilnius, October 26 2007

  2. EpiNews News on conferences, institutes, Eurosurveillance issues etc. EpiNorth Journal EpiNorth Data Annual notification figures on 43 diseases from 8 countries and 7 Russian regions EpiVax Tables of vaccination schedules in the countries in the region EpiTrain Annual one-week training course in infectious disease epidemiology EpiLinks Links to institutes and other resources in the region Current modules

  3. EpiWatch – a new module • Epidemic intelligence from Northern Europe • Russia: At least weekly scan of relevant web sites • ”Rosbotrebnadzor” national + regional • ProMed-Rus • Internet newspapers as needed • Nordic and Baltic countries • Web sites of institutes • Links to Google Maps www.epinorth.org

  4. EpiWords A glossary of epidemiological and infectious diseases terms and concepts in English and Russian Started as a translators’ tool Currently 757 terms Readers invited to improve EpiTheses Bilingual summaries (250 words) of new doctoral theses in infectious disease epidemiology from all universities in the region EpiPapers Bilingual abstracts of relevant articles from the region from medical journals (not in Pubmed) Geographical expansion Ukraine Belarus More Russian regions (Komi, Pskov) Overhaul of EpiLinks, EpiVax and EpiTrain Update Planned news in 2007-2008

  5. Challenges Few articles Not in Medline Not known Improvements Managing editor to support chief editor Actively soliciting articles Improved editing, peer review and translations Collaboration with Arkhangelsk public health school Collaboration with Eurosurveillance and ECDC Future of EpiNorth Journal

More Related