Coming Together for the 2023 CREID Annual Meeting

The EpiCenter for EID Intelligence team gathered for the 2023 CREID Annual Meeting in June of this year.

This network-level meeting brought together all ten CREID Research Centers, the coordinating center, representatives from NIAID, and numerous stakeholder groups. This year, fifteen members of the EpiCenter attended the meeting, providing an invaluable opportunity for our project leads from Peru, Uganda, and the United States to meet in person for the first time since the project's launch in 2020.

Sharing our expertise and exchanging knowledge with other attendees, our team delivered nine research talks, participated in a panel discussion on emerging diseases and climate change, and led a workshop focused on the utilization of GIS and Mapping tools for emerging infectious disease research. Moreover, the meeting served as a platform to foster collaborations across research centers, providing an avenue for us to gain deeper insights into the work conducted by our network colleagues from around the world and discuss potential synergistic activities.

Overall, the CREID Annual Meeting was a valuable experience for the EpiCenter team, enabling us to strengthen existing connections, forge new collaborations, and gain a broader perspective on the global landscape of emerging infectious disease research.