UNITED4Surveillance

Project Description

The project involves 25 countries and 41 partners from Europe. It brings together experts from public health, clinical microbiology, epidemiology and data science. The project will create a strong network in the integration of communicable disease control. The key product of the project will be the Roadmap for the implementation of integrated surveillance at EU Member State level. By doing so, we will identify gaps and analyse needs, integrate national policies, identify and pilot good solutions, disseminate good practices, and share experience and knowledge through competence building.

Added Value

The global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has shown the need to improve public health preparedness and pandemic response at European level. The project will contribute to the implementation of the new Health Security Framework under the auspices of the Health Union Regulation on Serious Cross-border Threats to Health. The project will support the implementation of ECDC’s long-term strategic framework for 2022–2025 in terms of integrating existing and new data sources for a more comprehensive overview of surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases. The project will make a significant contribution to increasing the capacity to control infectious diseases in Europe and beyond Europe’s borders to improve global security.

Expected Results and Materials

Start-up activities in 2023.

Project Duration: 1 January 2023–31 December 2025

Supporting Organisation: National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands

Project Partners:

•  National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), Slovenia

•  Croatian Institute of Public Health (CIPH), Croatia

•  State’s Serum Institute (SSI), Denmark

•  Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

•  National Public Health Centre (NNK), Hungary

•  Health Service Executive (HSE), Ireland

•  Italian National Institute of Health (ISS)

•  Latvian Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC)

•  National Public Health Centre under the Ministry of Health (NVSC), Lithuania

•  Ministry for Health – Government of Malta

•  Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)

•  National Institute of Public Health – National Research Institute (NIZP PZH – PIB), Poland

•  Public Health Agency of Sweden (FOHM)

•  Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES)

•  Sciensano, Belgium

•  National Institute of Public Health (SZU), Czechia

•  Health Board of Estonia

•  Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany

•  Department of Health and Consumption of the Government of Andalusia (CSFJA), Spain

•  National Health Laboratory (LNS), Luxembourg

•  Ministry of Health, Portugal

Financing: HaDEA