Transcript Update on EpiNorth

Update on EpiNorth
Olga Klimenko
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
at
EpiTrain V, Vilnius, October 26 2007
Current modules
EpiNews
• News on conferences,
institutes,
Eurosurveillance
issues etc.
EpiNorth Journal
EpiNorth Data
• Annual notification
figures on 43
diseases from 8
countries and 7
Russian regions
EpiVax
• Tables of vaccination
schedules in the countries
in the region
EpiTrain
• Annual one-week training
course in infectious
disease epidemiology
EpiLinks
• Links to institutes and
other resources in the
region
EpiWatch – a new module
• Epidemic intelligence from Northern
Europe
• Russia: At least weekly scan of relevant
web sites
– ”Rosbotrebnadzor” national + regional
– ProMed-Rus
– Internet newspapers as needed
• Nordic and Baltic countries
– Web sites of institutes
• Links to Google Maps
www.epinorth.org
Planned news in 2007-2008
EpiWords
• A glossary of
epidemiological and
infectious diseases terms
and concepts in English and
Russian
• Started as a translators’ tool
• Currently 757 terms
• Readers invited to improve
EpiTheses
• Bilingual summaries (250
words) of new doctoral
theses in infectious disease
epidemiology from all
universities in the region
EpiPapers
• Bilingual abstracts of
relevant articles from the
region from medical journals
(not in Pubmed)
Geographical expansion
• Ukraine
• Belarus
• More Russian regions (Komi,
Pskov)
Overhaul of EpiLinks, EpiVax
and EpiTrain
• Update
Future of EpiNorth Journal
Challenges
• Few articles
• Not in Medline
• Not known
Improvements
• Managing editor to
support chief editor
• Actively soliciting articles
• Improved editing, peer
review and translations
• Collaboration with
Arkhangelsk public health
school
• Collaboration with
Eurosurveillance and
ECDC