On 21 -25 May, 2017, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania took place the Grants Management Training for GHSA and Influenza Grantees. This was a CDC training, supported by TEPHINET.
Two representatives from SECID were invited to attend this training course.
In the framework of the fourth year of Project "Surveillance and Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza by National Health Authorities of Countries of South East Europe" on 29.05.2017 took place ILI/ARI/SARI meeting in Podgorica, Montenegro. The aim of the meeting was a general overview of the surveillance, analyzing the system and the data, picking up the problems that need to be solved and organizing activities and other meetings.
The most important discussions were:
From 17th to 19th of May 2017 a study visit on influenza surveillance took place in Germany, in Robert Koch Institute, Berlin. Serbia was a participatory country involved in this study visit.
In the framework of the Project “Surveillance And Response To Avian And Pandemic Influenza”, funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), specialists from Romania participated in a workshop organized in Germany with theme:
Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis: A Practical Introduction (Quality Control, Read Mapping, Visualization and DNA Variant Analysis).