First Epiwork – WP5 meeting in Amsterdam, 25-26th of May, 2009

Coordinator: AI BV, the Netherlands

Partners: ISI, Italy,; FGC-IGC, Portugal; CREATE-NET, Italy; LSHTM, United Kingdom; KU Leuven, Belgium; FFCUL, Portugal (for WP3); SMI, Sweden (for WP6).

Opening

The first WP5 meeting has been held in Amsterdam, to discuss the following issues:

  1. Introduction to the Internet-based Monitoring System (IMS)
  2. Results 2003-2009 in the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal: TheGroteGriepmeting and Gripenet
  3. First experience in Italy, 2008-2009: Influweb
  4. New Influenzanet Template Design: templates or websites on the basis of 2-4 concepts, including the general outline of the website, an Influenzanet logo, maps on an European scale.
  5. Contact Pattern Data
  6. Epiwork IMS European Database
  7. Epiwork’s epidemic marketplace: linkage of the IMS database infrastructure of WP5 to the epidemic marketplace platform of WP3 and the epidemic modelling platform of WP4

List of the participants:

Creante Net (I) represented by: Daniele Miorandi, Iacopo Carreras

FFCUL (P) represented by: Fabricio Silva, Luis Filipe Lopes

FGC-IGC (P) represented by: Flavio Coelho, Sander van Noort, Rui Francisco

Harvard Med. School (US) represented by: Ben Reis

ISI (I) represented by: Daniela Paolotti, Corrado Gioannini

LSHTM (UK) represented by: Ken Eames, John Edmunds

SMI (S) represented by: Moa Rehn

UvA – IvI (NL) represented by: Brendan O Nuallain, Isabelle Wartelle

AI BV/GGM (NL): Carl Koppeschaar, Elles Lalieu, Martin Takken, Ronald Smallenburg