Episode 53 - Andrea Ammon - The Farewell Episode

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we make a final interview with ECDC Director Andrea Ammon, who will soon be retiring after a long career in public health.

Andrea Ammon speaks about her 19 years at ECDC, including 9 years as Director, and reflects on how the agency has evolved.

She also tells us about the most memorable moments and challenges, including managing the Centre during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.7	Hello and welcome to ECDC on air, the podcast for the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:20.8	I'm your host, Nicholas, and today I'm joined in the studio by the European Center for Disease Prevention in Control.
0:25.8	I'm your host, Nicholas, and today I'm joined in the studio by the ECDC director Andrea Amon.
0:32.8	Andrea has a long career at ECDC, having started at ECDC as head of surveillance already in 2005.
0:38.2	Since 2015, she's been the director of the center, but will soon be retiring.
0:45.4	In this episode, Andrea Amon reflects on her time at ECDC and how the organization has changed over the years.
0:49.0	What it was like to manage the center during the COVID-19 pandemic,
0:52.2	and what kind of ECDC she would like to see in the future.
1:09.8	So welcome to ECDC on air, Andrea.
1:11.2	Very happy to have you here again.
1:13.3	I'm happy to be here again.
1:18.7	So I think this is actually the fourth time, if I'm not mistaken, that you've been here on the show.
1:19.5	Could be.
1:20.3	Yeah.
1:26.1	And this is most likely the very last time because you're retiring in only a few weeks' time from now.
1:28.8	Exactly in three weeks, yes.
1:31.5	And yeah, it is probably the last time.
1:34.6	So I want to turn the clock back to the year 2005,
1:38.5	which is when you first started at ECDCS, head of surveillance.
1:41.1	It must have been a very different organization back then.
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