ECDC on air.

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

Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.

Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to ECDC on air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

I'm your host Lee, recording from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. On today's episode,

we're speaking with Innes-Stefans, the editor-in-chief of the Euro-surveillance Journal.

Though Euro-surveillance is funded by ECDC, and we share the same building,

Euro-surveillance is an independent, peer-reviewed scientific journal

devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases

with a focus on topics that are of relevance to Europe.

We discuss the journal's past, its current focus, and the hopes for its future. Okay, so today we're joined by Innes Steffens, editor-in-chief of Euro-surveillance.

Innes, welcome. Thanks for joining us today.

Thank you very much for having me.

Today we are going to be discussing the Euro-surveillance Journal.

Can you give us a brief overview of Euro-surveillance and its mission and how the journal

came into existence?

Eurosurveillance is a scientific journal, which means it's a peer-reviewed journal. And one of its specifics features is that it's an open access journal, a diamond open access journal.

And in terms of topics and scope, we cover epidemiology, surveillance, prevention, control of communicable diseases.

In that we have a focus on Europe, even though we publish articles that come from

outside Europe, if they have an impact on public health in Europe.

The journal came into existence already quite some time ago in 1996, so in the mid-90s, when there

was a big move in public health at this side of the Atlantic, but also on the other side in the

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