Course announcement: Epidemiology of food hygiene, Helsinki, Finland, 23 May 2016

On behalf of: Maria J Vilar,
Doctoral Program in Food Chain and Health

Venue: Seminar room 11-12, EE Building (2nd floor), Viikki Campus, University of Helsinki, Agnes Sjöbergin katu 2, Helsinki.

Course organizers: Dr Maria J. Vilar and Prof. Hannu Korkeala, Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki.

Description of the course content:
The course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts on the epidemiology of foodborne pathogens: Risk Analysis, Quantitative Risk Assessment, Outbreak studies. All the topics will consist in conceptual and practical aspects. The students will be expected to study some background scientific articles. Reading papers and practical guide will be provided before the course.

Course program and further information.

Post doc in Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology at University of Copenhagen

A 1½ year position as postdoc in Veterinary Epidemiology with special emphasis on analysis of clustered on-farm biosecurity is available from 1 August 2016 at the Department of Large Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Please read more here.

The position will soon be announced online at the job-portal; http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/

where applications also need to be uploaded before 25 April 2016.

Best wishes,

Liza Nielsen (liza@sund.ku.dk)

NOSOVE course 2016, 18-20 July in Turku, Finland

NOSOVE organizes an international course 
to veterinarians, epidemiologists,

medical doctors, biologists, media representatives, 
and others interested in the topics.

Time: Monday 18.07.2016 – Wednesday 20.07.2016

Venue: Koulu, Eerikinkatu 18, Turku, Finland

http://www.visitturku.fi

Participation fee:

250 € for the whole course, including lunches, coffees, course dinner, and diploma.

Or 80 € for Monday only, including lunch, afternoon coffee, and diploma.

Language of the course: English.

Preparations for the course: Voluntary pre-reading will be suggested, bringing a laptop is useful.

Deadline for registration: 15.05.2016.

Register by sending an email to brian.lassen@gmail.com with the following information:

First name

Last name

Email-address

Phone number

Affiliation

Special dietary requests

Do you register for the whole course or for Monday only

Anything else you wish to tell the organizers

The course is organized if the minimum number of participants is exceeded. The number of participants is limited, and priority is given to those attending the whole course and those registering early.

The registrations will be confirmed by 20.05.2016, with instructions regarding paying the participation fee. The deadline of the payments will be 15.06.2016.

Teachers: 

Arvo Viltrop

Prof.

Estonia

Ruska Rimhanen-Finne

DVM, PhD, Adjunct prof.

Finland

Viktor Zöldi

MSc, PhD

Hungary

Francesca Latronico

DVM

Italy

Pikka Jokelainen

DVM, PhD

Finland

Brian Lassen

MSc, PhD

Denmark

NOSOVE course 2016, Turku, Finland

Monday 18.07.2016

11:45 – 12:00                          Gathering at the venue (PJ)

Lunch                                     

13:00 – 14:30                          Welcome to the course (PJ)

African swine fever in the Baltic area – update, epidemiology and lessons learnt, from the Estonian perspective (AV)

Coffee

15:00 – 17:00                          African swine fever, continued

Tuesday 19.07.2016

08:30 – 10:00                         Zoonosis surveillance and outbreak investigations at the National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland (RRH)

Coffee

10:30 – 12:00                          Parasitic outbreaks in Finland (VZ)                           Surveillance of human parasitic infections                 in Finland (FL) 

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30                          Case-study on trichinellosis (VZ, FL, RRH)

Coffee

15:00 – 17:00                          Case-study continued

19:00 –                                    Course dinner

Wednesday 20.07.2016

08:30 – 10:00                         Foodborne zoonotic parasites – parasites from the environment (BL) and tissues (PJ), with emphasis on One Health epidemiology

Coffee

10:30 – 12:00                         Workshop on the officials-media-research balance of zoonotic parasites, using a multicriteria ranking approach (PJ, BL)

Lunch

13:00 – 14:30                         Workshop continues

Wrap-up and take-home-messages

Coffee

14:45 – 17:00                          NOSOVE General Assembly Meeting                       followed by NOSOVE Board Meeting

Course announcement: Genetic Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Livestock

Genetic Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Livestock
NOVA PhD course of 3 ECTS, organised by Dirk Jan de Koning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
Preliminary dates and location: 7-11 June 2016 in Uppland, Sweden.

https://www.nmbu.no/en/students/nova/students/phd-courses/phd-2016/node/23527

Conference announcement: The first conference in aquatic animal epidemiology, Oslo, Norway, September 20th - 22nd, 2016

[On behalf of AquaEpi organisers]

Welcome to the first conference in aquatic animal epidemiology, Oslo, Norway, September 20th - 22nd, 2016
Link to course website

The conference aims to bring together leading scientists, researchers and research students from all parts of the world to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Aquatic Animal Epidemiology. It will also provide a platform for discussion about how to meet the research needs of aquaculture industry and facilitate interaction with stakeholders, industry and regulatory agencies for fruitful collaborations.

The conference will provide in-depth coverage of current and future epidemiological tools and their practical implications to aquaculture. Topic-focused sessions will cover but not limit to:
·          optimizing use of epidemiology data
·         design and evaluation of risk factor studies
·         molecular epidemiology
·         spatial and temporal patterns in prevalence and risk mapping
·         diagnostic misclassification
·         design and evaluation of surveillance and control
·         risk analysis

First announcement of 2016 NOSOVE course - save the date

Interested in epidemiology, outbreaks, zoonoses, parasites?

Save the date

The next NOSOVE course will take place

18.-20. July 2016

(right before EMOP XII)

in Turku, Finland

The Nordic Society for Veterinary Epidemiology (NOSOVE) is an informal organization

with the vision of advancing veterinary epidemiology.

http://nosove.blogspot.fi/

https://www.facebook.com/TheNOSOVE/

One Health International Summer Course in Copenhagen 2016

We are happy to offer the One Health International Summer Course again for the third time in Copenhagen in 2016. We welcome course participants with a wide spectrum of backgrounds to encourage the training of transdisciplinary systematic approaches and intersectorial collaboration to improving health at the human-animal-environment interface locally as well as globally.
A bachelor degree is required to be accepted for the course.

Find more about the course contents, online application form etc. here:
http://healthsciences.ku.dk/education/summercourses/one-health/

Application deadline is 1 April 2016.
The course starts 9 May 2016 with a 5-week elearning part followed by one week on campus in Copenhagen in 16-23 August 2016.

Best wishes,
the course coordinators
Tine Hald and Lars Erik Larsen (Technical University of Denmark)
Maria Vang Johansen and Liza Rosenbaum Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)