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The podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.

Hello and welcome to ECDC on air.

Today's episode features an interview with Joaquin Baruch,

who is part of the ECDC EPYET Fellowship Program for epidemiologists.

Joaquin talks to us about his experiences of being an EPIET fellow in Malta, as well as doing field work in places such as Western Sahara, Algeria and Mozambique.

This episode was recorded during the Eskaida Conference in 2022, and we are airing it now to mark the World Field Epidemiology Day, Eskaide, the second day of the Eskaide 2020 conference.

Here with me, I have Joaquin Baruch, who has been an Epiet Fellow and has been doing numerous field visits to Algeria, to West

Sahara and to Mozambique. And he's going to tell us a little bit more now about his experiences

and what opportunities there are for doing these kind of things as an Epiatt Fellow. So first of all,

welcome. Thank you. Nice to have you here. Can you tell us a little bit what,

first of all, what motivated you to become an EPI fellow?

Yeah, so my name is Joaquin. I'm a veterinarian actually by training. And through my veterinary years,

I did an internship at FAL, so the Food and Cultural Organization.

And there I worked with another veterinarian that had done the EIS programs, the Epidemic Intelligence Service in the US.

And I was talking one day over a beer after work about what I was wanting to do in the future and he

advised me to look into these problems and then I think oh it was five years after that

that after my veteran school I did a PhD in EPI and through that process when when I finished, I applied to the epiate.

The motivation was in reality to continue working on epidemiology, but moved away from academia,

which had been most of my work years to more applied epidemiology and work in national context.

And then you were accepted and then you were Spanish but then you were placed where?

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