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Cirad opened a Veterinary Epidemiologist position for a duration of 36 months. Deadline for applications: 5th November 2009. More information: http://www.cirad.fr/fr/empl_formation/poste/page.php?id=368
6th Croatian Congress on Infectious Diseases, 24-27 October 2009, Sibenik, Croatia
5th International Congress of Society for Vector Ecology, 12-16 October 2009, Antalya, Turkey

Workshop RO and related concepts: methods and illustration. 29-30-31st October 2008, Paris, France. INRA, CIRAD - on behalf of EDEN - and other colleagues organised a workshop on R_0. The workshop focused on one of the most important concepts in epidemiology, population dynamics and ecology provided by the mathematical thinking, the basic reproductive number, R , and its associated parameters. This meeting offered the opportunity to learn more about this concept and related ones, the mathematical methods they involve and their practical implications. See the presentations.

Full professor in Biology of arthropod vectors of pathogens position- University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. More information
Professor in vector biology-ENG [20.14 kB]
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Professor vector biology-FR [20.49 kB]
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Postdoctoral position: A 2 year postdoctoral position is available at the Institute for Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. More information
Postdoctoral position-Germany [42.19 kB]

International Master’s Degree (M2) in Medical and Veterinary Entomology (year 2009-2010). First call for student applications. Deadline for pre-registration: 31st March 2009. More information on http://www.miemv.org/
Summer Institute 2009 course on ‘Climate Information for Public Health ’, 1-12 June 2009, New-York, USA. (Application deadline: 15 February 2009). More information on registration: http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=964&PageID=0&cached=true&mode=2&userID=2

EDEN Thesis: Catherine Linard defended her thesis on January 23rd, 2009 "Spatial and integrated modelling of the transmission of vector-borne and zoonotic infections" .

EDEN annual meeting 2009: The next EDEN annual meeting will take place in Marrakech, Morocco from 14th to 16th January 2009. The PhD meeting will be held at the same place on the 12th and 13th January 2009. See the

Tentative agenda-Meeting 2009 [265.65 kB]

The Earth Observation and Modeling Group at University of Oklahoma seeks a PhD Student on ecology and epidemiology infectious diseases. More information on
PhD student Ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases [73.41 kB]
The Earth Observation and Modeling Group at University of Oklahoma seeks a research scientist on ecology and epidemiology infectious diseases. More information on
Research scientist on ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases [71.86 kB]
The Dutch Wildlife Health Center (DWHC) seeks a research scientist qualified in medical biology, veterinary medicine or a related field as a PhD degree. More information on
Research scientist Ecology-Epidemiology [32.93 kB]

CIRAD opened 6 positions in entomology / epidemiology of vector-borne diseases:
* researchers:
1 epidemiologist with strong skills in modelling
1 medical entomologist
* technicians
3 entomology technicians
1 computer scientist (databases and GIS)
More details are available at http://www.cirad.fr/fr/empl_formation/poste/index.php
Women are encouraged to postulate, as well as non-French candidates (but they must speak French).

A new position at INRA: "Ingénieur de recherche, responsable de la conduite de la charte sanitaire des dispositifs expérimentaux animaux et des dispositifs confinés de l’INRA".

Ingénieur de recherche INRA [33.39 kB]

International Master’s Degree (M3) in Medical and Veterinary Entomology : 1st call for student application (year 2008-2009). Pre-registration before March 31st, 2008 . More information on http://www.miemv.org/

Interview on RFI: Ca réchauffe grave ! http://www.rfi.fr/sciencefr/articles/097/article_61590.asp

Interview on Radio Pragues: L'émergence de nouvelles maladies, un risque pour l'Europe aussi (in French). http://www.radio.cz/fr/edition/99725

Interview on France Info Radio: EDEN a project to control emerging diseases (in french). http://www.france-info.com/spip.php?article55380&theme=81&sous_theme=165

INRA 2007 Post-doctoral programme " Modelling the population dynamics of Amblyomma ticks". Deadline: 4th february 2008. More information on

postDocINRA-CIRAD_UPR15ANGLAIS [39.50 kB]

postDocINRA-CIRAD_UPR15 [46.50 kB]

A press conference will be organized on Wednesday 16th January 2008 in Brno, Czech Republic. See the

EDEN press release [31.24 kB]

The third EDEN annual meeting will take place in Brno, Czech Republic from 14th to 18th January 2007. Wednesday 16th January 2007 will be a public plenary session open to interested scientific community. A press conference will be organized during lunch (see press release) .

FAO job offer: International Consultant Veterinarian Laboratory Specialist

JOB OFFER-FAO [35.00 kB]

The second EDEN PhD network meeting was held in Antalya, Turkey on 8-9th January 2007.

The EDEN General Annual Meeting was held in Antalya, Turkey on 10-11-12th January 2007. Wednesday 10th january was a public plenary session open to interested scientific community. See the agenda:

Annual meeting 2007 Tentative agenda V03 [158.29 kB]

The last EDEN Steering Committee meeting was held on 24-25th October 2006 in Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

International Master in medical and veterinary Entomology : 1st call for student application. The course starts around 15 September 2006 and students should apply for pre-admission as early as possible, to the Master secretariat (see address below) and no later than 10 February 2006 , using the pre-application Form available on www.mie.bj.refer.org .

Postgraduate/postdoctoral research assistant , Wellcome Trust-funded, Ecology & Epidemiology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick. More information .

Veterinary epidemiologist , Advert based on Jeff Gilbert current job (WHO, Western Pacific)

A joint FAO-EDEN meeting was organized at the FAO headquarters in Rome. The meeting followed on a request made in Rovaniemi by FAO as a member of the EDEN Advisory Group and was sponsored by FAO. EDEN participants included: Stephane de La Rocque (CIRAD), Jordi Figuerola (EBD), Hans Heesterbeek (FVM), Guy Hendrickx (Euro-AEGIS) and David Rogers (ZOOX). The main FAO participants included: Marius Gilbert (consultant), Vincent Martin (AGAH) and Jan Slingenbergh (AGAH). Based on FAO needs and avoiding
duplication of existing efforts a project proposal was discussed inspired by the EDEN approach. The project is modular and will have a global and local component. It will imperatively link up with the FAO-WHO-OIE Global Livestock Early Warning System (GLEWS). The latter is a major added value to EDEN because it will enable to link up with the EDEN-DEWS concept. A task force with Stephane de La Rocque as a focal point has been established. A project document will be prepared within a month. Upon acceptance by FAO, funding will be sought by FAO and the project will be implemented as part of the FAO Avian-Flu activities.

EDEN PhD meeting was held in Paris on the 8-9-10th june 2006.

EDEN Steering Committee meeting was held in Rome on the 19-20th of june 2006.

International conference: The international dimension of the "Europe of Knowledge": a common interest to Europe and to the world , Brussels, 6-7 october 2005. Programme and papers of the conference .

The EDEN annual meeting was held from January 12nd to 14th, 2006 in Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi (Lapland).

Vet epidemiologist in New Zealand [26.50 kB]

Bayesian Analysis, MCMC and WinBUGS , 8th & 9th December 2005, Cambridge, UK. This course is intended to provide an introduction to Bayesian analysis and MCMC methods, and a fairly detailed tutorial on the use of WinBUGS. Registration before 19th november 2005. More details on http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bayescourse/index.shtml

Master géographie santé [52.50 kB]

EDEN is organising a third training of trainers workshop on lab security and standardization from November 24th to 26th, 2005 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Muenchen. Our host will be Prof. Monika Zahler-Rinder from the Tick-borne disease sub-project. Attendance to the workshop will be restricted to selected specialists from the EDEN sub-projects and members of the other horizontal integration teams.

L'Université Paris V, VI, l'INED et l'IRD proposent Master "Géographie de la santé", en co-habilitation Parix X et Paris XII. Date limite de dépot des demandes : 28 juin ou 15 septembre 2005.

The last Steering Committee was held on October 18th, 2005 at the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

EDEN on the CIRAD website. Read the interview of Stephane de La Rocque

EDEN strikes !! Read the paper in "L'Express" (

L'express 8/8/2005 [604.22 kB]

EDEN organised a second training of trainers workshop on mathematical modelling applied to emerging disease models from June 23th till 25th, 2005 at the University of Utrecht. Our host was Prof. Hans Heesterbeek from the Theoretical Epidemiology Group and leader of the EDEN modelling horizontal integration team. Attendance to the workshop was restricted to selected specialists from the EDEN sub-projects and members of the other horizontal integration teams.

The EDEN Coordinator and interested members from the Steering Committee have been invited by the EC to a meeting on "global change, risk to human health" which will take place in Brussels on June 13th, 2005. During this meeting, the final results of cCASHh -Climate Change and adaptation strategies for human heath http://www.euro.who.int/ccashh/ ), coordinated by WHO, Bettina Menne & Roberto Bertollini, will bepresented. Representatives from PHEWE - Prevention of acute Health
Effects of Weather conditions in Europe ( http://www.epiroma.it/phewe/ ), are also invited. Future calls for proposals in this field and possible future topics on this matter (FP7) will be discussed.

The last Steering Committee meeting was held on June 6th, 2005 in London at the Natural History Museum.

EDEN organised a first joined training of trainers workshop on data-management, geographical information systems and remote sensing from March 30th till April 2nd, 2005 at the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Our host was Prof. Eric Lambin from the Geography Group and leader of the EDEN environmental change horizontal integration team (high resolution remote sensing). Co-organisers were Prof. David Rogers from Oxford Zoology, leader of the spatial modelling horizontal integration team (low resolution remote sensing) and Dr Willy Wint from Euro-AEGIS, leader of the data-management team. Attendance to the workshop was restricted to selected specialists from the EDEN sub-projects.

February 2005, a crucial month for EDEN.
EDEN has been officially launched during the Kick-off meeting organised in Montpellier the 14-15-16 of February 2005.
The meeting included plenary sessions describing the objectives of EDEN, the strategy for integration and the description of work in each vertical and horizontal sub-projects. Specific sub-project meetings were held on Day 2. A workshop on data standardization was organised during the last day to discuss common data standards needed to achieve the multiscale integration goals.