Episode 7 - Tarik Derrough - Bringing Vaccination Experts Together

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Tarik Derrough - Expert in vaccine-preventable diseases - to talk about ECDC's role in coordinating disease and laboratory networks. These networks bring together experts to collaborate on various topics. We focus one type of network in particular - National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups or NITAGs - which provide technical resources, supply guidance, and make recommendations to national policymakers.

"People are now able to work together, to learn from one another, and that can only serve a better decision making process."

For more information on the disease and laboratory networks in Europe, please visit the page on partnerships and networks on ecdc.europa.eu.

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0:00.0	ECDC on Air.
0:06.6	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:10.2	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.1	Hello everybody and welcome to ECDC on Air, the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention
0:22.4	and Control, which is recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. My name is Catherine
0:28.1	and today I am your host for this podcast. In this episode, we are going to talk about one of the
0:34.0	activities performed by ECDC, which is not very known, namely the coordination of
0:39.2	disease and laboratory network.
0:41.5	We will focus in particular on a network that brings together experts who issue recommendations
0:47.2	for the use of vaccines in the EU.
0:49.3	We hope you enjoyed this discussion.
1:10.5	With us today, we have Tarik D'Hourke, who is working at ECDC as an expert in vaccine preventable disease.
1:12.2	Hello, Tariq.
1:13.2	Welcome to this podcast.
1:14.7	Could you first introduce yourself and tell us what you are doing at ECDC and what brought
1:20.4	you here?
1:21.2	Hello, Catherine.
1:22.0	Thank you for inviting me to this podcast today.
1:24.9	Well, I've been with ECDC for now 11 years. Throughout this time,
1:28.8	I've been serving the vaccine preventable disease program at DCDC. I have covered a number of
1:34.2	function. I must say the experience has been very rich, very varied, covering a number of topics
1:39.7	from surveillance, response, scientific advice. And there has never been a time where I felt bored or doing anything repetitive at
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