The call for abstracts for ESCAIDE 2026 is now open!
📣 Take the stage at this year’s conference. Submit your work for a chance to present and inspire the #publichealth community across Europe and beyond.
📅 Deadline: 18 May 2026
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Experts needed!
𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗦𝗩 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀.
We are looking for experts across fields such as epidemiology, clinical practice, virology, immunology, modelling & public health to contribute to our work in this area.
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Our Funding Initiative provides financial support for selected abstract presenters from the EU/EEA who would like to present in person at ESCAIDE.
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Our call for abstracts opens on 14 April-18 May: www.escaide.eu/en/abstracts
Get the chance to present your research at this year's ESCAIDE!
📅 The main call for abstracts will be open from 14 April-18 May.
💡 Preliminary guidelines, accepted topics and timelines are available to help you get your work ready for submission.
Learn more: www.escaide.eu/en/abstracts
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👩🔬 The meaningful participation of women and girls in science is fundamental to building inclusive, resilient, and effective scientific and public health communities. #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience
We look forward to continuing this commitment at #ESCAIDE2026!
All ESCAIDE 2025 plenaries and selected side sessions are now available on YouTube.
Get the latest insights on #PublicHealth, #OneHealth, #Governance, #SocialSciences and more.
Registered attendees can access all sessions on Swapcard until 31 March.
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📆 Mark your calendars! ESCAIDE is returning to Stockholm on 18-20 November 2026, and can again be attended online.
More details, including registration and abstract submission dates, are coming soon.
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From 19–21 November 2025, Dr. Beryl Musundi presented #MONID at the #ESCAIDE2025 in Warsaw, highlighting its goals, structure, ongoing projects, and growing role in national and European modelling networks.
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Highlights from #ESCAIDE2025, including a wonderful talk from #ThisPodcastWillKillYou on science communication in a time of misinformation & disinformation.
Piotr Kramarz closing #ESCAIDE2025:
"Thank you everyone, this is all for this year's #ESCAIDE conference.
#ESCAIDE2026 will take place on 18–20 November 2026 in Stockholm – see you there."
#IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #HealthEquity
Piotr Kramarz: closing #ESCAIDE2025 in #Warsaw:
"Let’s link the data we produce with emotional messaging, narratives and stories – and let’s inspire others.”
#PublicHealth #IDsky #EpiSky
Piotr Kramarz:
"Top-down talking from experts to non-experts is not a dialogue. We have to listen to our target audiences and communities."
“It’s very hopeful to see all of us here united by the public health cause – let’s experience this hope, build it further, & take it with us”!
#ESCAIDE2025
#ECDC Chief Scientist and Chair of #ESCAIDE Scientific Committee Piotr Kramarz closing #ESCAIDE2025:
“We work in an environment where data and values often conflict, the stakes are high, and decisions are urgent.”
#PublicHealth #HealthEquity #IDsky #EpiSky
Elburg van Boetzelaer at #ESCAIDE2025:
"In the research, we created both tangible and intangible outputs. From peer reviewed publications, a symposium and a series of webinars, as well as a short film and an exhibition with photographs of the people who contributed, to put faces to names."
Elburg van Boetzelaer from #MSF at #ESCAIDE2025:
"How inclusive are classical data collection methods? For example, when we organise focus groups, how do we ensure that elder people can reach the location where focus groups take place?"
#ESCAIDE #IDsky #EpiSky #HealthEquity
Grazia Caleo at #ESCAIDE2025:
"Public health is not only counted, it is also experienced. I want to encourage reflection, hope, and empathy to build solidarity as a core of inclusive and equitable public health."
#HealthEquity #ESCAIDE #PublicHealth #SciComm #IDsky #EpiSky
Grazia Caleo at #ESCAIDE2025:
Why did I go from being an #epidemiologist to a writer of a children’s book about #Ebola, from the tangible to the intangible? I witnessed stigma, fear, violence and injustice. I wanted to forge new paths to bridge the tangible and intangible.
#ESCAIDE #IDsky #EpiSky
Erin Welsh & Erin Allmann Updyke at #ESCAIDE2025 - on what keeps science communication alive:
“Don’t let perfection get in the way of good - sometimes you just have to put your work out there.”
“We all share a collective responsibility to make positive changes where we can.”
#SciComm
Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke at #ESCAIDE2025 on communication - which differs from a lecture:
“Conversations are a two-way street - talking, but also actively listening.”
“Asking good questions is a skill, and it’s essential for communicating science.”
#SciComm #ESCAIDE
Congratulations to the 2023 graduates of #EPIET, #EUPHEM, #PAE and #MedIPIET fellowships!
Thank you for your dedication, cooperation, and collaboration over the past two years.
Best of luck as you continue your careers in #FieldEpidemiology, #Microbiology & #PublicHealth.
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Time for:
#ESCAIDE2025 Plenary session F: Beyond numbers: humanising public health to address health inequities.
Let's look at putting people at the centre & turning public health data into impact
Chairs: Alicia Barrasa & Piotr Kramarz
Speakers Grazia Caleo & Elburg van Boetzelaer
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Last Fireside sessions at #ESCAIDE2025 starting now!
Topics:
➡️ Health inequalities and key populations
➡️ Fireside Session 14 – Late breakers
Join us at #ESCAIDE! You can still register: bit.ly/ESCAIDE2025Register and watch all past sessions!
#PublicHealth #HealthInequalities #LateBreakers
Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke at #ESCAIDE2025:
#ScienceCommunication is about distilling dense, complex information into something people can actually understand.
(…) Good science stories hook you - they make you care.
(…) Storytelling humanises what is often taught as an impersonal field.
Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke at #ESCAIDE2025:
“Uncertainty is a fundamental part of science – and it’s not an excuse for inaction.”
“One of our catchphrases is: ‘Great question — I don’t know.’ Transparency builds trust.”
“Scientists need to get better at not overstating our expertise.”
Thematic Session 5 – Diagnosing barriers to #vaccination.
Closing immunisation gaps needs epidemiological & behavioural insights to understand who is under-vaccinated and why.
Chairs: Sarah Earnshaw Blomquist & Andrea Würz
Speakers: Bolette Søberg & Agnieszka Sochoń-Latuszek
#ESCAIDE2025 #EpiSky
Lunch time?
Let's talk while having a bite at #ESCAIDE2025!
Join Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke – hosts of #ThisPodcastWillKillYou – discussing the global rise of misinformation and share practical lessons from years of their science communication.
#ScienceCommunication #SciComm #ESCAIDE
Time for #ESCAIDE2025 Fireside sessions on:
➡️ Strengthening epidemic intelligence and surveillance
➡️ Blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections
➡️ Healthcare-associated infections
You can still follow #ESCAIDE conference LIVE!
Register here bit.ly/ESCAIDE2025Register
#PublicHealth #Epidemiology
Adrian Stoica at #ESCAIDE2025:
"We also need to work closer with community health services to gather vaccination behavioural insights and organise catch-up vaccination campaigns couples with health promotion."
#Vaccination #VaccinesSaveLives #ESCAIDE
Adrian Stoica from Arges County Directorate of Public Health, Romania at #ESCAIDE2025:
"Adequately resourced vaccination programmes underperform in Arges county.
We need to continue working with family doctors to improve reporting on reasons for missed vaccinations & communication about it."
Susan Hahne @rivm-nl.bsky.social:
"Politicization of #vaccination is a main current threat. Should we do more to address the real determinants (politics and social media) rather than individuals or groups?"
#ESCAIDE2025 #ESCAIDE
