Episode 24 - Svetla Tsolova - How Do We Prepare Communities?

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week we sit down with ECDC expert in community preparedness, Svetla Tsolova, to talk about how local communities can help in infectious disease prevention and control.

Is it difficult to train the communities in emergency preparedness? Are they an important part of the machine that needs constant oiling? Svetla responds to our questions and goes deeper into the topic, presenting some of the more interesting cases that have occurred in Europe recently.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.8	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.4	Hello and welcome to this podcast.
0:17.1	My name is Catherine and today I'm your host for this episode of of ECDC on air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, which is recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
0:29.7	In this episode, we are going to talk about one of the activities performed by ACDC, which is community preparedness.
0:36.7	What is community preparedness? How does it work?
0:39.4	And what the CDC is really doing? These are the topics of our discussion. With us today, we have Svetla Tzolova, who works at ECDC as a principal expert in emergency preparedness and response.
1:08.8	Good afternoon, Svetla. Nice to have you here. Yes, good afternoon. Thank you for
1:13.8	the invitation. Thank you for coming here to talk to us about community preparedness. Could you
1:20.2	tell us more about yourself? What is your background? Yeah, I'm born in Bulgaria, so I finished university there. And after working some years in the
1:32.0	Ministry of Health and in the newly established health insurance fund, I re-educated a bit in
1:39.4	health policy and financing. Then I moved to Brussels, worked on some projects on healthy aging and long-term
1:46.3	care. And then after Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, I applied for a position in ECDC, and I managed
1:54.8	to come here as an expert initially and now principal expert in preparedness and response.
2:01.0	So before talking about community preparedness, could you please tell us briefly what is
2:05.7	preparedness? We already have one of the previous podcasts. It's number three called How
2:11.3	Prepared Can We Be? That explains in detail what is preparedness and what it entails.
2:17.1	But to understand what is really
2:19.3	community preparedness, we need to understand briefly the listeners, need to understand what is
2:25.3	preparedness. Yeah, I will not repeat the definitions that my colleague Agoricaa described
2:31.3	in this previous podcast. I'll just mention that public health emergency preparedness
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