Program overview
MediPIET is a regional training programme aimed to enhance health security in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region by supporting capacity building for prevention and control of natural or man-made threats to health posed by communicable diseases through the implementation of a regional long-term advanced Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP), Training of Trainers activities, annual scientific events, support of knowledge transfer to and among partner countries, and support to networks of national representatives of MediPIET partner countries, training sites, fellows, supervisors and alumni.
The programme was set up in 2013 at the initiative of the European Commission with the aim to reinforce capacities across the whole region. MediPIET has been implemented across three phases, with the fourth phase led by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) under the EU Initiative on Health Security.