Steering Committee

The EuroTravNet Steering Committee (SC) is composed of the co-ordinators of each Specific Task plus two members of the Network.  Also, the GeoSentinel Project Director sits on the Steering Committee in order to facilitate the bridge for management of any required data collection using the GeoSentinel platform.  At minimum, two meetings of the Steering Committee are organised per year.

The Steering Committee members are:

• WP1 Coordinator & Project Director: Philippe PAROLA, Marseille, France
• WP2 Working Group: Patricia SCHLAGENHAUF, Zürich, Switzerland; Francesco CASTELLI, Brescia, Italy; Gerd-Dieter BURCHARD, Hamburg, Germany; Frank VON SONNENBURG, Munich, Germany
• WP3 Coordinator: Philippe GAUTRET, Marseille, France
• GeoSentinel Representative: David FREEDMAN

Project kick-off meeting of the EuroTravNet Steering Committee, Marseille, January 9-10, 2009.  Left to right: Pedro Arias (ECDC), Fabrice Simon, Philippe Parola, Vanessa Field, David Freedman, Katrin Leitmeyer (ECDC), Pat Schlagenhauf, Frank von Sonnenburg (ISTM), Philippe Brouqui, Philippe Gautret, Francesco Castelli

Annual Meeting

Through the collaboration with ECDC, an annual meeting will be organized to support networking activities between the members.  The meeting agenda will also allow exchange of expertise opinion on selected topics (identified in collaboration with the ECDC) to further improve the work of the network.

How to become a member?

1. Be located in a European country
2. Be an ISTM Member
3. Be a clinical site with a significant number of post-travel patients
4. Willingness to participate in Member Activities
5. Fill in and submit this Registration Form

All EuroTravNet members will be automatically enrolled as well as GeoSentinel Network Members.  GeoSentinel is ISTM's worldwide data collection and information network.  More information about GeoSentinel Network Membership can be found here.