This document outlines key strategic and operational considerations to inform pandemic preparedness planning around the design and implementation of PHSMs in community settings in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA).

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...

Compared with the general public, people in prison in the EU/EEA have a higher burden of communicable diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and tuberculosis (TB). Increased disease prevalence in this population is...

Compared with the general public, people in prison in the EU/EEA have a higher burden of communicable diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and tuberculosis (TB). Increased disease prevalence in this population is...

As stated in Article 8 of the Regulation (EU) 2022/2371 on Serious Cross-Border Threats to Health (SCBTH), ECDC has the responsibility, in coordination with relevant Union agencies and bodies, to conduct Public Health Emergency Preparedness Assessments (PHEPA) of all 30 European Union and...

The document is intended to be used as a reference document for the EUPHEM training programme but can be used by any training programme related to public health microbiology. Other potential users are not only public health institutes and training programmes, but also individual professionals...

In the context of preparedness for, and management of, cases of Ebola infection imported into the EU, ECDC - in collaboration with Belgium public health authorities - conducted a 3.5-day peer-review country visit in March 2015. Five experts (three from ECDC and two from other EU Member States1)...

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...