UNITED4Surveillance is an EU4Health Joint Action with 40 partners from all across Europe. The Joint Action started in January 2023 and will run until 31 December 2025. The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) is coordinating this project.
Representing 24 countries (and 40 institutes) in Europe, UNITED4Surveillance gathers expertise in public health, (clinical) microbiology, epidemiology and data science.
UNITED4Surveillance is an EU4Health Joint Action with 40 partners from all across Europe. The Joint Action started in January 2023 and will run until 31 December 2025.
The main activities are divided in seven Work Packages (WP’s). Each WP has its own tasks and deliverables.
The goal of Joint Action (JA) is to assist member states and the EU in the deployment of digitalized, integrated surveillance systems, operating both at national and European levels, to ensure better detection of early warning signs and more accurate risk assessment and coordinated response among the member states to any future cross-border health threat.
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), coordinator of the project, hosted the final in-person UNITED4Surveillance General Assembly meeting of the
Work Package 4 (WP4) of UNITED4Surveillance aims to establish and strengthen partnerships in a One Health approach, emphasizing structured data sharing for effective public health surveillance. It
Ann Christin Vietor, data scientist from Robert Koch Institute (RKI), gave a talk about the “Collaborative development of a framework for automated signal detection for