The Dutch Disease Detectives:
Dutch Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group (DAIDEG)
The Dutch Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology Working Group (i.e., Dutch Disease Detectives) aims to unite all infectious disease epidemiologists connected to the Netherlands. This group represents the community of epidemiologists focused on infectious diseases and public health, including epidemiologists in the field, particularly fellows and alumni of Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETP). Field epidemiologists thrive through interdisciplinary backgrounds and collaboration, including health scientists, veterinarians, microbiologists, clinicians, public health professionals, communication specialists, modelers, statisticians, social scientists, policymakers, and more. The competency profile for FETP graduates in Europe has been designated by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as core competencies for mid-career public health epidemiologists.
The Dutch Disease Detectives working group of field epidemiologists exists to unite forces, create visibility for the specialty, and facilitate peer collaboration for projects and training. The group is open to interested members of the VvE (Association of Epidemiologists), also to encourage exchange between the epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases, which are largely interconnected, such as comorbidities in HIV infection and long COVID. Read more about our initiative to put applied infectious disease epidemiology in the Netherlands on the map in this article from the RIVM Infectious Disease Bulletin.
You can join as a member here through the Field Epidemiology Network Europe (FENE), a community for epidemiology professionals across Europe.
We work closely with the European EPIET Alumni Network (EAN).
