As the amended ECDC Founding Regulation and the Regulation on serious cross-border threats to health (SCBTH Regulation) came into force in December 2022, the ECDC long-term Strategy 2021-2027 has been adapted to incorporate new and extended tasks of the Centre's strengthened mandate. 2025 will...

The amended ECDC Founding Regulation calls for the Centre to focus its interventions on specific priority areas. In view of this, ECDC's Strategy 2021−2027 has been adapted, including the Strategic Objectives that will guide ECDC interventions in the next few years. The Strategy Implementation...

Following a request from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) made its first major contribution to outbreak response activities in the field in...

In 2015, ECDC commissioned an evaluation of the ECDC guidance HIV testing: increasing uptake and effectiveness in the European Union published in December 2010. The aim of the evaluation was to review the impact of the ECDC 2010 guidance and to assess the current need for ECDC HIV testing...

This report presents pooled COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates for the first, second and third booster doses (compared to complete primary vaccination with no booster) against hospitalisation due to COVID-19 and COVID-19-related death in resident populations ≥50 years of age living...

Decision 1082/2013/EU on serious cross-border health threats provides a legal basis for collaboration and information exchange between EU Member States and between international and European-level institutions on preparedness planning, prevention, and mitigation in the event of a public health...

This focused after-action review (AAR), conducted by ECDC in collaboration with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), investigated the use of evidence in the Finnish advice-making process for school interventions from December 2021 to January 2022, when the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron...

At the request of the Slovenian National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), ECDC designed and facilitated an After- Action review (AAR) for the NIJZ, focusing on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic between October 2020 to March 2021. ECDC managed the methodological approach and were the...

The aim of the literature review presented in this report was to provide evidence to inform the recommendations made by ECDC and the EMCDDA in the 2011 'Guidance on the prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs'. The evidence presented here focuses on the...

This report presents the results of two literature reviews. The aim of the reviews was to provide evidence to inform the recommendations made by ECDC and the EMCDDA in the 2011 publication 'Guidance on the prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs'. The evidence...