was invited to deliver a plenary lecture during the TEPHINET Regional Conference for the Americas held in Brasilia from 26 to 29 September 2023, on Infodemic Management: Its role in the pandemic and beyond.
Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET) is a global professional network of field epidemiology training programmes (FETPs), building a workforce to protect all people from public health threats. TEPHINET coordinates 81 of the 98 FETPs working across more than 200 countries from its headquarters in Atlanta, USA.
Prof. Calleja is head of the within the . He also leads the Directorate for Health 福利在线免费 & Research within the Ministry for Health of the Government of Malta.
During the pandemic, apart from supporting the public health response team as part of the COVID Senior Advisory Team, he has also been supporting WHO in Geneva in the development of an infodemic management strategy and in training around 1400 professionals worldwide in infodemic management. He has also led several Health 福利在线免费 System assessments in a number of countries in the WHO European Region, for both the WHO and as part of several EU projects.
The most recent projects were documenting pandemic related health information systems and assessing the preparedness of EU countries for the upcoming European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation.
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