Highlights
 | COVID-19: Potential impact on asthma patients
Guy Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium), Antonio Spanevello (Milan, Italy), Stephanie Ayre (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
Tuesday, 05 May 2020
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 | Interview on COVID-19: Team briefing and psychological support
Anita Simonds (London, United Kingdom), Branka Zei (Geneva, Switzerland)
Friday, 24 April 2020
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 | COVID-19: Q and A
Prof. Tobias Welte (Hannover , Germany), Prof. Eva Polverino (Barcelona, Spain), Prof. Chen Wang (Beijing, China), Prof. Bin Cao (Beijing, China)
Saturday, 28 March 2020
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 | Health Policy of COVID-19 management
Prof. Chen Wang (Beijing, China)
Saturday, 28 March 2020
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 | Diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19
Prof. Bin Cao (Beijing, China)
Saturday, 28 March 2020
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 | SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): research response
Lennie Derde (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Friday, 6 March 2020
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 | Interview on Coronavirus COVID-19 management experience in China
A. Simonds (London. United Kingdom), Nanshan Zhong (Guangzhou, China)
Wednesday, 4 March 2020. Please watch Prof Zhong's presentation, then see this Q&A session, for futher exploration and discussion of this unique experience in China'
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 | Perspectives of the management of COVID-19 infection in China
Nanshan Zhong (Guangzhou, China)
Tuesday, 3 March 2020
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 | Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) outbreak in China and globally
Pasi Penttinen (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)
Monday, 24 February 2020 - Recorded 10 days earlier
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 | Advancing preparedness for clinical research during infectious disease epidemics
Nina Gobat, John Amuasi, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Louise Sigfid, Hugh Davies, John-Paul Byrne, Gail Carson, Christopher Butler, Alistair Nichol, Herman Goossens
ERJ Open Research 2019 5: 00227-2018
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Acute respiratory pandemics: how to plan for and manage
Educational aims
Have greater knowledge of respiratory pathogens
Understand the investigation and management of an epidemic/pandemic
Work in teams during an acute escalating epidemic event
Improve their communication skills with regards to an epidemic
Engage in research during an acute epidemic
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Reaching out: A meeting to advance clinical research preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks
Clinical research is vital to influence health outcomes and save lives in an infectious disease outbreak. To be effective, clinical research must be fast, flexible and integrated with the front line response. Globally, progress is being made to improve preparedness and deliver clinical research as a core part of outbreak response. However, there remain many challenges to rapid research deployment.
This meeting examined bottlenecks to (rapid) deployment of clinical research in an infectious disease outbreak and what we can do to overcome them.
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 | A systematic review of clinical guidelines on the management of acute, communityacquired CNS infections
Louise Sigfrid, Chelsea Perfect, Amanda Rojek, Kajsa-Stina Longuere, Sam Lipworth, Eli Harriss, James Lee, Alex Salam, Gail Carson, Herman Goossens & Peter Horby
BMC Medicine 2019; 17: 170
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PREPAREing for (Re-)Emerging Arbovirus Infections in Europe, Bucharest 2018
The aim of the course was to improve the participant’s knowledge of identification and management of arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) infections and outbreaks at local and European levels.
Course topics included a review of arboviruses of importance to Europe, including endemic and travel-imported viruses, an overview of symptomatology, diagnostics and interpretation of laboratory results and an update on prevention, vaccine and treatments for these viruses.
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e-learning material in Dutch, French, German and English: information from GRACE trial and on aspects of antibiotic use
The Belguim federal public service has developed a number of e-learning courses on various themes concerning health. All courses are accessible to everyone. .
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ESWI Influenza Conference, Riga 2017
The conference programme consists of the following main scientific topics:
- Influenza is a moving target and a secret killer
- Addressing influenza in practice: who’s involved?
- Implementation of vaccination policies: success stories and hurdles;
- Influenza preparedness: what can we learn from other virus outbreaks?
- Reaching out to people at risk; Influenza prevention in developing countries: a global responsibility
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Influenza news from the frontline: what's happening?
Throughout December 2017 and January/February 2018, there have been widespread alarming media reports of escalating cases of seasonal influenza. Yet, the European Union research initiative PREPARE (the Platform for Preparedness Against (Re-)Emerging Epidemics), which monitors the response to outbreaks, reports that the current influenza threat to Europe is limited and concludes that based on available information, there is no evidence for an overall increase in severity in this flu season compared to previous years. Is that the case globally, and how can we reconcile these views, including the personal experiences of frontline respiratory teams managing high numbers of cases? Chief Editor Anita Simonds explains what's happening on the frontline of the flu season.
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PREPARE annual meeting 2017
 | Mermaids ARI trial
Frank van Someren Greve
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 | Multi-centre EuRopean study of MAjor Infectous Disease Syndromes
Louise Sigfried
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 | Randomized, Embedded, Multifactorial Adaptive Platform trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Lennie Derde
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 | Solving ethical, administrative, regulatory and logistical problems in implementing clinical trials during severe infectious disease outbreaks
Nina Gobat
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Anfectious disease challenges in community-acquired pneumonia and tuberculosis: improving your clinical practice, Milan 2017
Have greater knowledge of respiratory pathogens
Understand the investigation and management of an epidemic/pandemic
Work in teams during an acute escalating epidemic event
Improve their communication skills with regards to an epidemic
Engage in research during an acute epidemic
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ALIC4E Recruitment Training
We are about to launch season 2 of the ALIC4E Trial as we are nearing the beginning of this year’s flu season. Here is a reminder for everyone involved in the recruitment of participants into the trial what they need to do.
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Zika Virus Case Report Forms
Research tools have been developed by an international collaborative effort led by ISARIC, an international consortium that aims to support rapid research during new and emerging disease outbreaks.
The CRFs are available for any researchers to use in English, Spanish and Portugese through the Global Health Networks platform: https://zikainfection.tghn.org/research-tools-and-resources/crfs together with up-to-date latest evidence. You can register for updates on the website.
The PREPARE education and training needs syllabus covers 6 domains:
This education resource site for PREPARE contains a variety of multimedia educational materials on pandemic medicine, with information on the PREPARE trials and emerging infections.
The Virtual Learning Platform enables you to:
- Check out upcoming EVENTS.
- Tailor educational reources to your individual requirements via MY RESOURCES.
- Visit the DOMAINS of the PREPARE syllabus as listed below.
- See details of CURRENT PREPARE TRIALS, including aims, protocols, recruitment details and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Examines the activities and goals of the PREPARE WORKPACKAGES.
- Use the FORUM for discussion.
- Access relevant PUBLICATIONS and webLINKS.
Workpackage 5 protocols
The primary objective of this REMAP is, for patients with severe CAP who are admitted to an ICU, to identify the effect of a range of interventions to improve outcome as defined by the occurrence of death during the index hospital admission censored 60 days from the date of enrolment.
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