The Regional Emerging Diseases Intervention (REDI) Center is a research and training organization founded by the Singapore and United States to enhance the region’s capability and capacity to deal with emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as avian influenza and SARS. REDI Center is chartered in Singapore as an Intergovernmental Organization.

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Advanced Issues in Data Management with Excel and EpiData

Date: 7-11 May 2012

Venue: Mandalay, Myanmar

RECENT EVENTS

German-Singaporean Symposium on Pathogenic E Coli, 23 April 2012

Venue: Breakthrough Theatrette, Level 4 Matrix Building, Biopolis, Singapore

REDI Center in collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Health, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Embassy in Singapore held a Symposium on Pathogenic E. coli on 23 April 2012 at the Breakthrough Theatrette, Level 4 Matrix Building, 30 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138671.

The focus of the Symposium is on the 2011 outbreak of enterohaemorrhagic E coli (EHEC) O104:H4 in Germany that involved more than 4000 cases and 50 deaths. The theme of the Symposium is: “What can be learnt from the German EHEC outbreak in terms of investigating outbreaks and strengthening outbreak response capacities?"

Please click HERE for more details and links below for Symposium presentations:

No.	Presentation Tile	Presented By	**
1	Escherichia coli O104:H4: the outbreak experience from Germany 2011	Prof. Reinhard Burger (President, Robert Koch Institute)	Download
2	Microbiology and Diagnosis of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli	Prof. Ulrich Dobrindt (German National Consultant Laboratory for HUS)	Download
3	Clinical Management of Enterohaemorrhagic Disease (EHD) and Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) during the 2011 outbreak	Prof. Rolf Stahl (University Medical Centre Hamburg‐ Eppendorf)	Download
4	Research Priorities for addressing the threat of pathogenic E. coli	Prof. Joerg Hacker (President, National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina)	Download

** Due to large file size, please allow more time for the files to download.

 

HIV Program Monitoring and Data Analysis, 5-9 Sep 2011

As part of a series of regional training courses directed towards strengthening local disease surveillance capacity, the REDI Centre together with Family Health International/Prasit, organized a five-day trianing course on HIV specific training for health staff. Held in Siem Reap, the primary focus of this course was training on best practices for the utilization of both Excel and Stata in HIV program monitoring. 24 participants from around the region took part, including Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and the Philippines.

Please click HERE for the full workshop report