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Career
Compass.
Different paths.
Honest conversations.
Ideas for your next step.
Meet the people behind public health careers and explore the choices that shaped their journeys.
FROM THE EAN ARCHIVE · 2025
Career paths worth talking about.
Conversations with public health professionals at ESCAIDE.
About Career Compass · Current edition · Bring your questions · Past editions
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There is more than one way forward.
Career Compass is an annual EAN event at ESCAIDE: an informal question-and-answer session with public health professionals about their careers and the decisions that shaped them.
Hear different perspectives, ask about the turning points behind a career and reflect on what might come next in your own professional journey.
Career Compass · ESCAIDE 2026
Friday 20 November 2026 · 12:40–14:10
Venue: Waterfront Congress Centre, Nils Erikson Plan 4, Stockholm.
Moderators: Natalie Fischer and Joaquin Baruch.
Panelists: Amrish Baidjoe (Médecins Sans Frontières), Ines Steffens (Eurosurveillance, ECDC), Veronik Hutse (Sciensano) and Gianfranco Spiteri (ECDC).
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Listen. Ask. Explore.
The session centres on an informal conversation with public health professionals. It is an opportunity to look beyond job titles and hear about the choices, experiences and changes behind them.
Explore different paths
Hear how professional journeys can develop in different directions.
Ask what matters to you
Bring questions about career decisions, transitions and lessons learned.
Learn from experience
Listen to the people behind the roles and consider what resonates with you.
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What would you like to ask?
Not sure where to start? Here are a few questions you could bring to the discussion:
- What helped you decide on your first role after the fellowship?
- Which skills have proved useful across different jobs?
- How did you approach a career change or an unexpected opportunity?
- What would you do differently if you were starting again?
- What advice would you give someone considering a path like yours?
Past editions
Explore the people and conversations from previous Career Compass sessions.
2025 · WARSAW
Career Compass 2025
19 November 2025 · Hilton Warsaw City
Moderators: Ioannis Karagiannis and Liza Coyer.
Speakers: Ewout Fanoy, Justine Schaeffer, Louise Coole, Steen Ethelberg and Kassiani Mellou.
2024 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2024
22 November 2024 · 12:45–13:45 CET
Moderators: Ioannis Karagiannis and Bojana Mahmutović.
Speakers: Marc-Alain Widdowson, Ricardo Mexia, Tanja Charles and Natalie Fischer.
2023 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2023
22 November 2023 · 12:50–13:50 CET
Moderators: Alma Tostmann and Jane Whelan.
Speakers: Michael Edelstein, Nadine Zeitlmann, Patrick Keating, Sabine Dittrich and Giovanna Jaramillo Gutierrez.
2022 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2022
23 November 2022 · 13:00–14:00
Speakers: Ananda Giri Shankar, Jane Whelan, Kostas Danis and Zsófia Iglói.
Organised by EPIET and EUPHEM fellows in collaboration with EAN.
2021 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2021
16 November 2021 · Online
Panelists listed in the programme: Chikwe Ihekweazu, Marion Koopmans and Mike Ryan.
These panelists are listed in the conference programme.
2020 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2020
24 November 2020 · 17:00–18:00 · Online
Career Compass featured as a side event in the online ESCAIDE programme.
2019 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2019
29 November 2019 · 12:40–14:30
Career Compass featured in the lunchtime conference programme.
2018 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2018
21 November 2018 · 13:10–14:20 · Spinola Room, Level 5
An open discussion about professional pathways with public health professionals.
2017 · PAST EDITION
Career Compass 2017
First edition
Speakers: Annick Lenglet, Henriette de Valk, Steffen Glismann, Margarita Riera and Karen Wilson.
Developed jointly by EPIET/EUPHEM cohort representatives, EAN and the ESCAIDE organising committee.
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