22nd August to 6th September 2018, Gothenbrug, Sweden.

The European Course in Tropical Epidemiology ECTE is a 3-week intensive course on basic epidemiology and biostatistics. The course is suitable for a wide range of health professionals, including medics, nurses, biologists and anthropologists working in the health sector. The course is intended for staff working in low and middle income countries as health programme managers or with an interest in public health in tropical settings. Emphasis is on methods and the practical application of epidemiological tools in high burden-countries. ECTE is a collaborative venture of various European centres of Tropical Medicine and Public Health and is held annually at different venues. Although this is a basic course, some understanding of basic concepts of statistics would allow you to better appreciate the close relationship between epidemiology and medical statistics.

The course is well established and is run at full capacity in most years. We recommend applying early to secure a place.

Lecturers and facilitators for ECTE come from:

• Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain
• Centre for Tropical Diseases, Sacro Cuore – Don G. Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy
• Copenhagen School of Global Health, University of Copenhagen
• Gothenburg University, Sahlgrenska Academy, Health Metrics, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Germany
• Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
• Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
• Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Published in GI-Mail 06/2018 (English edition). Sign up for GI-Mail here.  

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