In 2008 the European Parliament and Council developed a strategy to support Member States in reducing the cancer burden, with a particular focus on the most frequent cancers. This was followed by the European Commission's Beating Cancer Plan, and the launch of the EC Initiative on Cervical...

In 2024, ECDC conducted a survey on public health workforce capacity in the field of prevention and control of infectious diseases in the EU/EEA. This was in response to requests from several European Member States to help assess existing workforce capacity and identify gaps and additional...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is cooperating with countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce in order to prepare them for their future participation in the Centre's...

ECDC cooperates with countries under the EU enlargement policy to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce to prepare them for their future participation in ECDC's work. Under this policy, ECDC has been implementing technical cooperation...

ECDC cooperates with countries in the Western Balkans and Türkiye to improve their infectious disease prevention and control systems and public health workforce to prepare them for their future participation in ECDC's work. Technical cooperation with countries in the Western Balkans and...

From 10 to 14 June 2024, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conducted a country visit to Montenegro which was supported by a consortium...

The overall objective of this joint country visit to North Macedonia was to discuss and review the advancement of a One Health approach against AMR through: the identification of strengths and weaknesses in the current national AMR strategies, action plans and intersectoral coordination...

This is the second year for implementation of our current strategy statement 2024-2028. Our vision, chemical safety through science, collaboration and knowledge, has informed the actions presented here and will continue to guide us as we deliver our strategy over the next four years. At the core...