Dec 14, 2022 | News, RHDC Albania
nnnnnThe South East European Centre for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases – SECID, SEEHN RHDC in collaboration with WHO Regional Office for Europe, the Centers of Disease Control, USA and Task Force for Global Health has convened an advanced training workshop on surveillance and causality assessment of adverse events following immunization (AEFI), held in Tirana, Albania in the period 30th November – 2nd December 2022.
nnnnSEEHN Secretariat Director, Dr Mira Jovanovski Dasic addressed the audience online. Her message focused on the importance of the topic discussed and also cross-regional collaboration that is important to be kept especially view the immunisation sensitivity.
nnnnWith the participation of lecturers in person and remotely from WHO Regional Office for Europe, Canada, Germany, Estonia, Serbia, US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, and Uppsala Monitoring Center, during this very intense 3 days training brought great interest and a lot of discussion on the table.
nnnnThe aim of the workshop was to provide guidance and technical advice to national experts from the Southern-eastern Europe Health Network Member States and guests on strengthening surveillance and causality assessment of AEFIs, by updating the national policies procedures and tools on surveillance of AEFIs to further strengthen the national mechanisms to detect, respond, assess causality and communicate effectively on serious adverse events following immunization.
nnnnParticipants committed to improve their AEFI systems and causality assessments. By the end of the workshop they came up with a draft plan for actions on improving their systems engaging drugs regulators, immunization programs and other national stakeholders.
nnnnIn addition, multiple cross-cutting issues were identified so that they can be addressed at regional level.
nnnnnnnnThe workshop was attended by about 50 participants consisting of national experts involved in surveillance and review of AEFI cases representing national immunization programs; pharmacovigilance units of national drug regulatory authorities; representatives of the national expert committee involved in assessing the causes and classification of AEFIs; representatives of medical universities, responsible for graduate and post-graduate educational programs on pharmacovigilance and AEFI surveillance in the country. #immunization #seehn #southeasteuropeancountries #vaccine
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Mar 24, 2020 | News, RHDC Albania
nThenincreasing pressure on the countries related to COVID-19 pandemicndetermined the organization of a Regional TC on 24 Marchn2020 at 11:00 CET, at the initiative and with the support of Dr Mira Jovanovski-Dasic,nHead of SEEHN Secretariat and Dr Silvia Bino, Director of SEEHN RHDC onnCommunicable Disease. It was tailored to the nine Member States of thenSouth Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN).
nnnnThe goal of the TC was to discuss the challengesnthat SEEHN Member States are facing in the response to COVID-2019 (quantity ofnavailable tests, capacity for testing, capacity for isolating measures, lack ofnconsumable material; lack of human resources, the need for mobilization ofnadditional expertise. etc.), in order to agree on regional actions needednin addition to the national responses each country is already takingnindividually.
nnnnAdditionalnto the SEEHN Members states experts, the TC has been joined by Kosovo* asnobserver and some of the SEEHN National Health Coordinators.
nnnnThe TC wasnalso joined by Dr Dorit Nitzan, Coordinator,nHealth Emergencies and Operation Management, Dr. Lucianne Licarinand Mr Robb Butler from WHO EURO.
nnnnDr Hans HenrinP. Kluge, WHO RegionalnDirector for Europe wasnable to join to greet and highlighted a core idea that health workers are doingntheir job for everyone not only for their country. It is a stress test for ournsolidarity: “We all are in this together united!”
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Jul 7, 2014 | RHDC Albania, RHDCs
RHDC on Communicable Diseases Control and Surveillance and IHR implementation in SEE
(Tirana, Albania)
The Regional Health Development Centre on Communicable Diseases Control and Surveillance and IHR implementation in South-Eastern Europe (RHDC CDC) has been hosted within the Institute of Public Health of Albania since its establishment in 2010.
In February 2013, “Southeast European Centre for the Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases” (SECID) was established as an integral part of the RHDC CDC as well as an administrative partner of IPH.
Consisted of Executive and Advisory Boards and Excellence Centres, SECID aims to build and improve regional and cross-border capacities, promote the regional “One Health” initiative and create sustainable initiatives and collaboration with networks and other agencies.
Since surveillance systems and health monitoring have long been in the focus of the Albanian health system, particularly in relation to influenza viruses, SECID has been actively contributing to the implementation of the Project “Surveillance and Response to Avian and pandemic Influenza by National Health Authorities of Countries of South East Europe” through country workshops in Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Croatia.
More SECID-related information is available at the following link: www.secids.com
| Dr. Silvia Bino
Director of the SEEHN RHDC
National Institute for Public health
Head of Department and general coordinator for SECID |
Institute of Public Health RHDC SECID Rr. Alexander Moisiu, No.80, Tirana, Albania
Tel: +355 42 484 611
Mobile: +355 692 621 468
E-mail: silviabino@gmail.com |
| Ms. Ledia Agolli
Executive Manager of
SECIDS |
Southeast European Center for Surveillance and Control of Infectious Diseases (SECIDS)
Institute of Public HealthRr. Aleksander Moisiu No.80, Tirana, AlbaniaTel: +355 42 484 611
Mobile +355 682 069 698
E-mail: ledia.agolli@gmail.com |
