An important part of the ECDC's role is to provide its stakeholders with scientific advice upon request. On 2 August 2010 ECDC received such a request from the European Commission's Directorate General for Health & Consumers (DG SANCO) - Directorate C Public Health and Risk Assessment. ECDC was...

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 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has developed a monitoring system for hepatitis B and C to support countries in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) in monitoring responses to their epidemics of hepatitis B and C. The monitoring system is closely...

In 2021 and 2022, a survey was developed to assess the impact of COVID-19 on HIV service delivery and monitoring capacity in Europe and Central Asia. Countries were asked whether COVID-19 had an impact on several HIV-specific and non-HIV specific services compared to pre-COVID levels. Although...

Narcolepsy is an underdiagnosed disease of widely unknown etiology. This report summarises the results from two epidemiological studies conducted by the Vaccine Adverse Event Surveillance and Communication (VAESCO) Consortium undertaken in eight European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA)...

This extended report aims to provide a broad overview of the epidemiology and virology of the 2009 pandemic in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries (27 EU Member States (MS) and Norway and Iceland). Relevant background information on influenza epidemics and pandemics,...