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13th Advanced Course of Vaccinology - ADVAC 2012
14 - 25 May, 2012, Annecy, France
Fondation Mérieux Conference Center at Les Pensières
ADVAC is a two-week training programme for decision-makers, including academia, industry, governmental and non-governmental agencies, in all fields related to vaccines and vaccination, vaccine trials, new vaccines, vaccination strategies and policies, vaccine-specific issues (including hepatitis, meningitis, polio, measles, pneumococcal diseases, influenza, malaria, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, HPV, rotavirus, dengue & JE), ethical issues related to vaccine trials, financing of immunization policy, communication.
For practical information click here
For online registration click here. Deadline 15 November 2011
For preliminary program click here
ESWI Flu Summit
23 May 2012, Brussels, Belgium
For more information click here
Serious Infection in Children - diagnosis and management at the front-line
18 May 2012, Imperial College, London, UK
For more information click here

The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID) exists to promote the exchange of information among people who have special experience in the field of paediatric infectious diseases. The society promotes research and training in PID. Membership is granted to individuals supported by at least one existing member at the discretion of the Board.

 

» Articles of Association
» Board and Committee Members 2011-2012
» Expense Reimbursement Rules
Expense Claim Form

You can complete an online application form to join ESPID here and return it electronically. However, you must have the name of an existing ESPID member who has agreed to support your application.

Information exchange
To promote the exchange of information among people who have special experience in the field of paediatric infectious diseases (by organizing regular scientific meetings, forming international study groups and networks, participation in advisory boards of other societies, organization of symposia at other international congresses, and through joint publications by members’ publications in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal and other journals)

Independent unit training
To support the formation and function of independent units (e.g. sections, departments, divisions) in order to encourage progress in the field of infectious diseases in childhood. (as a member of the European Board for Paediatrics and by formulation of criteria and programmes for training in the field of paediatric infectious diseases in order to certify qualifying centres.) Training and further education in the field of infectious diseases and research, particularly basic research, as well as clinical care shall be given priority.

Co-operative study
To carry out co-operative studies in Europe in the field of prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of infection in childhood;

Further education
To provide further education in the field of paediatric infectious diseases by organizing meetings for this purpose including annual scientific meetings, training programmes and educational workshops, making fellowship and travel awards and fostering official publication of scientific proceedings and other materials

AGM
To carry out any other measures to support the promotion of paediatric infectious diseases, as determined by the Annual General Meeting.

» ESPID elections 2012
The Board of ESPID is happy to welcome the election of
Ronald de Groot, ESPID President 2012 - 2015
Terho Heikkinen, ESPID Board member 2012 - 2015
who will be officially presented to our members during the General Assembly on 10th May 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece

» European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC)

The European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC) would like to draw your attention to the recently published ‘European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care’. The full text paper can be accessed for free from the current issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ). Please find the paper here.

» 29th Annual ESPID meeting The Hague, The Netherlands, June 7-11 2011 - photo gallery


» Abstracts presented at the 29th Annual ESPID meeting The Hague, The Netherlands, June 7-11 2011