According to the work plan of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and pandemic Influenza by National Health Authorities of Countries of South East Europe”, the Annual Influenza season Meeting (two days), was held on December 2015.
The participants, 30 in total, were from sentinel Sites, Epidemiologists, Infectologists, and Pediatricians, specialists from IUC and Pulmologists and GP-s.
SECID, at the Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania with the technical support of ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden has organized on 17 -18 September 2015, in Podgorica, Montenegro the Training on How To Report Influenza Data Through The European Surveillance System (TESSy). This activity has been organized in the framework of the project “Surveillance And Response To Avian And Pandemic Influenza”, with Grant Nr. 5U51IP000841-02 and it is funded by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Within the framework of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and pandemic Influenza by National Health Authorities of Countries of South East Europe”, following activities were implemented during period March – July 2015.
a) Meeting with sentinel ILI sites
The final in a series of three cross border One Health workshops supported by CORDS in the SECID network, took place in Samobor (nearby Zagreb), Croatia on 29-30 June 2015.
The workshop was attended by representatives of Human and Animal health sectors from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia (around 27 participants).
The workshop was chaired by Dr Iva Pem Novosel, Epidemiologist Service, Croatian Institute of Public Health.
Annual Influenza Meeting of Vet and IPH was held in the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro on 16 June 2015.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Institute of Public Health of Montenegro, representatives of Veterinary Institutes, Clinic for Infectious Diseases KCCG, Specialized Veterinary Laboratory, IPHs-influenza coordinators, epidemiologist and specialists of infectious disease.
The Institute of Public Health of Serbia ’’Dr Milan JovanovicBatut’’ organized Annual Influenza Meeting, on June 3rd, 2015 aiming at improving epidemiological, epizootiological and virological influenza surveillance, as well as to point out a multisectorial collaboration in terms of assessment of influenza activity.
Within the framework of the second year implementation of Flu project, on 23.06.2015 in the town of Tryavna was held the workshop for Regional PH and Vet Authorities.
In relation to the Flu project activities, on 09 May 2015 in the town of Velingrad took place the annual influenza meeting.
In collaboration with the South East European Centre for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases (SECID) and with technical input from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, the WHO Regional Office has been organizing a workshop on outbreak investigation and response (OIR) in Budva, Montenegro on 8-9 July 2015 for the countries of South-eastern Europe.
The overall aim of the workshop was to improve OIR capacities in SEE countries by
SECID in collaboration with and suported by CORDS (Conecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance), organized a risk assessment and communication workshop, that took place on 6-7 July 2015 in Budva, Montenegro.
The overall aim of this two days workshop was to clarify the conditions that need to be in place for risk management in the areas of risk assessment, risk communication and notification in order to better comply with the IHR (2005).
This workshop aimed to better understand: