European Training in Infectious Disease Emergencies
Aim To produce a training programme and training materials specifically to meet the requirements of front line health professionals in emergency care (including nurses and other HCW) and local laboratories, to deal with the recognition and management of infectious disease emergencies.   General Objectives: To enhance European capacity to recognise and respond effectively and in a coordinated fashion to infectious disease emergencies, whether natural, accidental or deliberate in origin.
Specific Objectives To develop a common European core curriculum in English for emergency care clinicians, nurses, other health care workers and laboratorians on the management of infectious disease emergencies, covering: • specific high threat pathogens • biosafety including sampling handling and transport • infection control and transmission prevention • laboratory diagnosis • major incident planning and response, including psychological aspects, risk assessment & management, communication and surge capacity
The project will produce 5 training modules: 1. An interdisciplinary foundation module 2. A specialised IDEM training module for emergency care clinicians 3. A specialised IDEM training nurses and other health care workers 4. A specialised IDEM training module for laboratorians 5. An interdisciplinary training module on simulations, including scenario planning and evaluation and a basic, walk through simulation
Members ETIDE partners are respected as experts and come from a variety of different fields (clinicians, epidemiologists and public health experts). All have experience in dealing with different aspects of infectious disease emergencies.   Italy   National Institute of Infectious Diseases Dr Giuseppe Ippolito   Azienda Ospedaliera e Azienda ULSS di Padova – Veneto           Dr Giovanni Putoto Dtt.ssa Alessandra Zampieron United Kingdom   Royal Free Hospital Dr Barbara Bannister Health Protection Agency Dr Nick Gent Dr Graham Lloyd Dr Tim Brooks Greece   Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control Dr Helena Maltezou Germany   Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet Prof Hans-Reinhard Brodt Dr Stefan Schilling Public Health Office, Frankfurt am Main Dr René Gottschalk   Sweden   National Board of Health & Welfare Dr Martin Holmberg France   INSERM Dr Marie Claude Georges
Coordination Team and Co-opted experts The Coordination Team is based in Rome, Italy, at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani”,  the Italian national referral centre for infectious disease emergencies and bioterrorism-related pathogens.   Below is a list of members of  the Coordination Team:   Project Leader Giuseppe Ippolito Scientific Coordinators Enrico Girardi   Vincenzo Puro   Gabriella De Carli Project Coordinator Anna Prygodzicz Consultants Carla Nisii Project Secretary Ramona Iacovino   Contacts  Anna Prygodzicz (Project Coordinator) etide.course@inmi.it  Ramona Iacovino (Project Secretary) etide.course@inmi.it