The ECDC Collaborative Network for Travel and Tropical Medicine
How does it grow ?
&
Perspectives
Philippe PAROLA
Project Coordinator
EuroTravNet 2nd Annual Meeting Hamburg May 26th, 2010
(July 2008) December 2009- July 2010 CONTRACT
(July 2008) December 2009- July 2010 CONTRACT
(July 2008) December 2009- July 2010 CONTRACT
www.eurotravnet.eu
May 2010
50
EuroTravNet
Members
15 Core Sites
+
35 Network
Members
in
20 countries
EuroTravNet in ECDC Website
The objectives of WP 1 are to
hold a single Network secretariat
responsible for :
• the overall administration of the
EuroTravNet project (including
financial oversight),
• the maintenance of a directory of
the network members and their
expertise,
• the organisation of meetings of
the Steering Committee and
annual meetings of the network
members,
• and the preparation and update
of documents/deliverables for
dissemination on the ECDC
website.
Project kick-off meeting of the EuroTravNet
Steering Committee, Marseille, January 9-10,
2009.
The first EuroTravNet Annual Meeting was
organized at ECDC in Stockholm 23-24 April
2009. About 30 Core Sites and Network
Members attended the meeting and many
projects have been discussed together and with
the ECDC staff.
2nd SC comittee meeting
Verona Italy, September,
2009
Financial administration
Université de la
Méditerranée and
Protisvalor
Year 1 aknowledged by
ECDC
ECDC will ask EuroTravNet for advice (risk assessment) on a situation (event).
EuroTravNet may have to collaborate with the ECDC if they need to send a
response team. Each “event” must be followed by a summary of lessons
learned. EuroTravNet will make a first draft of the lessons learned for the ECDC
to review and use as they see fit.
Illustrated during H1N1 spread
SCIENCE WATCH
MEMBERS
&
PARTNERS
EuroTravNet does not need to complete a full review of each disease every month.
EurotTravNet should report on and give interpretation of groundbreaking
information and new developments. The ECDC would like a grassroots approach
to the research.
It is more important for EuroTravNet to provide a summary of groundbreaking
developments obtained through communication within the EuroTravNet network
rather than a systematic keyword search on Pubmed
SCIENCE WATCH : COMMENTS
From EuroTravNet coordination:
All sites are invited to propose articles –
events !
From ECDC:
it would be useful for us if you could give
some more critical comments on the public
/travel health importance of the articles
From members:
Any comments from the audience ?
Subtask 1: Updated inventory of travel
medicine resources (infrastructure and
functions) in Europe by country
Subtask 2: Updated inventory of global
travel medicine resources (infrastructures
and functions) of international
organizations and main Organizations
outside Europe such above
Subtask 3: Updated inventory of global
travel medicine products issued on a
regular basis by travel medicine
professionals to assess and manage the
risks to health associated with travel to
any country in the world
Subtask 4: Make a review of the current
guidelines used in Europe (EU Member
States, Associated, Candidate and
EEA/EFTA countries) for giving pre-travel
advice on the main preventable travelrelated communicable diseases
Coordinators: Dr Ph. Gautret, Pr Ph. Brouqui, Pr. F. Simon, Dr Ph. Parola, Marseille
3 Philippes
1 Fabrice
[email protected]
+33 6 85 XX XX XX
SITES – MEMBERS
PARTNERS
[email protected]
ECDC will prepare the first draft of the report and EuroTravNet will review it and
provide data and short paragraphs of comments and discussion.
EuroTravNet will be expected to have relevant specialists from the network review
the sections within their specialty.
EuroTravNet will be contacted in February or March to review relevant parts of the
draft. There is no authorship on the document.
The last 2010 example include the phone
conference about the outbreak of Q fever in The
Netherlands that has been organised with Pr D.
Raoult, the world expert of Q fever, through the
EuroTravNet system
EuroTravNet is asked to share information but is not required to
provide data in a routine basis.
If EuroTravNet learns about a case that is considered to be
“important or very suspicious”, it is expected to report the case to
the ECDC (even if the case is just a rumor). The rumors should be
considered credible and the ECDC only needs to be informed if
the information implicates a European response.
All such information transmitted to the ECDC will be considered
confidential information. If an event is monitored by ECDC, ECDC
can request EuroTravNet to provide a summary of the situation in
Europe: Number of cases reported in Europe through the Network
and places of possible source of infection , for instance.
August
13rd
2009
The epidemic intelligence team has picked-up in the last month 2
imported cases of Trypanosomiasis (Promed report below). Would it be
possible for you to provide us with a general overview of imported cases
of Trypanosomiasis in Europe (excluding Chagas) in the recent years. For
instance we would be interested in knowing the number of cases
reported, the origin etc.
Thank you in advance for your collaboration.
Programme Officer - Emerging and Vector-borne Diseases Preparedness
and Response Unit
ECDC
August 21st, 2009 submitted. Published in EuroSurveillance September 10
EPIS will be up and running in 2010.
A travel medicine and risk assessment forum will be established on an EPIS network.
Information can be posted on this password-secured website to avoid distributing
information via email (which is not deemed reliable). Core sites will be given access to
EPIS. Any user will be able to initiate discussion. Special forums will be developed for
specific topics or diseases. Different levels of forums will be established and the ECDC
will control who has access to certain forums. EuroTravNet is not required to use EPIS
for discussion unless there is a critical event.
EuroTravNet / Geosentinel plateform
EuroTravNet Director
European site level access to the
GeoSentinel on-screen report
generator and diagnosis frequency
report in order to view aggregated
data from all European sites (this will
be available within 1 month)
may make unlimited requests to the
GeoSentinel director do a rapid onscreen query to the entire worldwide
database
Geosentinel Health Map
EuroTravNet / Geosentinel plateform
17228 Patients 1997-2007
GeoSentinel gives the EuroTravNet Director an annual
data download of all European patient records for an
annual publication
EuroTravNet / Geosentinel plateform
Under review at
BMC Infect Dis
2009 data release: June 1st , 2010
Proposed leading team and author: S. Odolini, Brescia
Italy
EuroTravNet / Geosentinel Plateform
Alerts to Members - Partners – ECDC
Submission for publication
5 cases of
Acquired in Comoros (4), and Zanzibar in travellers returning to Marseille
and Paris (France) and Stockholm (Sweden).
All cases but one (haemorrhagic) were non-complicated dengue.
Two patients were viremic and infected by DENV-3.
Given the presence of Aedes albopictus in South Europe, early detection
of viremic travellers is critical. Returning travelers serve as sentinels for
local outbreaks of dengue fever in endemic areas
EuroTravNet / Geosentinel Plateform
Alerts to Members - Partners – ECDC
Submission for publication
OTHER ON GOING ISSUES
SPECIFIC SURVEYS
Perspectives in the context of
the new ECDC tender
180.000 euros / year
All tasks are maintained
The Travel Medicine Inventory is now included in WP1 as an update to be provided
every year
A NEW TASK:
Question from EuroTravNet:
Which level of detail is requested for this task, taking into account
the risk for duplication with existing information for travellers?
Public Answer:
The purpose of this task is to ensure that EU travellers have easy
access to the correct and most up-to-date information on the
geographic risk for communicable diseases and on the appropriate
preventive measures to be taken.
Therefore, if such information is available in a comprehensive
manner, and of high quality, from recognised national or
international sources, it is enough to complement the ECDC
factsheets by providing the direct link to this recognised source.
However, in case such information is not available, or of
insufficient quality, it is expected to be developed by the contractor.
Core sites have been asked if they want to take the
responsability of this tasks, with the support of all members
The proposed coordinating team:
• Gerd-Dieter Burchard, Germany
• Francesco Castelli, Italy
• Frank von Sonnenburg, Germany
• Patricia Schlagenhauf, Switerland, overall Coordinator
All members will be welcome to participate
THANK YOU
www.eurotravnet.eu
The ECDC Collaborative Network for Travel and Tropical Medicine
Extra Tasks
SPECIFICS SURVEYS
Philippe PAROLA
EuroTravNet 2nd Annual Meeting Hamburg May 26th, 2010
OTHER ON GOING ISSUES
SPECIFIC SURVEYS
ENIVD SURVEY ON DEN & CHIK
www.enivd.org
[email protected]
Molecular tools to diagnose Acute
Schistosomiasis. GD. Burchard
Surveillance of imported S.aureus
infections, P. Zanger
THANK YOU
www.eurotravnet.eu
The ECDC Collaborative Network for Travel and Tropical Medicine
CONCLUSIONS
Philippe PAROLA
Project Coordinator
EuroTravNet 2nd Annual Meeting Hamburg May 26th, 2010
Money !
EuroTravNet at NECTM
EuroTravNet symposium Friday 28 May 08:00-08:45,
Networking with EuroTravNet and the European CDC: an open
discussion
for all people who would like to get information to join the network
Symposium - Rapid Surveillance Systems
- News from the GeoSentinel network
- EuroTravNet – the European Travel Medicine
Network
- Health map
2011 EuroTravNet Annual Meeting
Will depend on New Tender results !!!!
The annual network meeting will take place in ECDC,
Stockholm unless one of participating institutions provides a
facility for organising the meeting free of charge.
Somewhere in Southern Europe in April ?
Remember : CISTM12–12th ISTM Congress May 812, 2011 Boston, USA
One possibility: close / during the European
Congress on Tropical Medicine and International
Health 2 - 6 October 2011, Barcelona, Spain
Email to [email protected] for suggestions !
THANK YOU
Specials:
Gerd-Dieter Burchard for his help to organize this
meeting at BNI
www.eurotravnet.eu