Episode 55 - Agnė Bajorinienė - Bridging the Borders of Public Health

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Agnė Bajorinienė - International Relations Officer at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), to discuss the agency’s role in preparing Western Balkan, Türkiye and EU candidate countries for full EU membership from public health perspective.

Agnė explains the importance of public health cooperation, highlights ongoing projects, and outlines efforts to strengthen disease surveillance, laboratory capacities, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) response in these regions.

She also shares insights into how ECDC is helping these countries align with EU health regulations and address specific regional challenges.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air
0:04.9	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control
0:08.5	Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology
0:15.7	Hello, my name is Nicholas and I'm your host for today's episode of ECDC on Air
0:19.4	which is the podcast for the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:22.9	Today we're joined by Agne Bayorignene, who is International Relations Officer and coordinator of the ECDC accession support to the Western Balkans and Turkey.
0:32.5	This project aims at supporting countries in the Western Balkans and Turkey to prepare them to participate
0:37.6	in the center's activities in anticipation of them joining the European Union.
0:58.5	So thanks for joining us today, Agne.
0:59.8	Nice to have you here in the studio.
1:00.7	Nice to be here.
1:01.6	Thank you for inviting.
1:05.2	Can you maybe just start off by telling us a little bit about yourself?
1:07.2	How long have you been at ECDC?
1:08.1	Where are you from?
1:15.6	Well, yeah, I've been in ECDC since 2010, so it's already, yeah, soon 15 years. Originally I am from Lithuania, but before that I worked in another EU agency in the
1:20.6	Agency of Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon, but it's already history now.
1:25.6	So I'm very much involved now with Western Balkans and
1:28.7	Turkey since I joined ICDC. So let's start off a little bit. Can you just tell us this
1:34.3	project that you're leading on? Which countries are we actually talking about when we're
1:38.2	talking about the Western Balkans? So when I joined the CDC, there were at that time seven
1:43.2	countries being as EU candidate and potential
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