WP4 One Health webinar series
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 is organized around three disease groups: foodborne diseases, zoonotic influenza, and vector-borne diseases. WP4 organises a series of three webinars on each of the disease groups (zoonotic influenza, vector borne […]
Signal Detection Tool developed within UNITED4Surveillance presented at the MONID Conference in Berlin on 28th February 2025
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 infectious disease outbreaks“ on the 3rd (Inter)national Conference on Modelling Infectious Diseases in Berlin. The talk focused on the Signal Detection Tool, developed in collaboration with data scientists from AGES […]
ECDC site visit sparks new ideas and stronger collaboration with UNITED4Surveillance
UNITED4Surveillance hosted a successful site visit with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on 29 & 30 January 2025. Insights into the results of UNITED4Surveillance so far have sparked a lively discussion about the common challenges encountered in infectious disease surveillance. Legal and privacy barriers present a widespread challenge faced by all […]
Norway maneuvers the legal and technical landscape of register data towards a nation-wide surveillance system of hospital admissions with SARI
Discover the output of the Norwegian investigation into the legal, infrastructure and privacy concerns towards the relevant existing data sources for a nation-wide register-based surveillance system of respiratory infection / pathogens amongst hospitalized patients. This work was part of Norway’s pilot within Work Package 3: Hospital Surveillance. Find further details on UNITED4Surveillance (EU4Health Joint Action) – […]
Signal Detection Tool publicly available on UNITED4Surveillance GitHub Repository
We are excited to announce that the newly developed Signal Detection Tool is now publicly available on the Github repository!
Collaboration for improved health emergency preparedness at HERA symposium
Sierk Marbus, representing the coordination team of UNITED4Surveillance, attended the HERA symposium ‘Exploring Grants & Actions for Advancing Laboratory and Digital Capacities for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response’ on 4th and 5th April 2024 in Brussels. A great opportunity to crosslink with other HERA projects, such as EU-WISH, DURABLE, EU-HIP and WGS & RT-PCR projects. […]
Annual General Assembly meeting 2024
On 11 and 12 March 2024, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu organised the annual General Assembly meeting of the EU4Health project UNITED4Surveillance in Zandvoort, the Netherlands. Joint Action UNITED4Surveillance aims to strengthen infectious disease surveillance at the EU level by supporting improvements in national surveillance systems. Over 90 public health experts from 23 countries attended […]
UNITED4Surveillance at the 2023 ESCAIDE conference in Barcelona
We had the opportunity to showcase UNITED4Surveillance at the 2023 ESCAIDE conference in Barcelona from November 22 to 24! Our presentation offered an overview of the entire project and shared some exciting initial outcomes. We shared preliminary survey results highlighting challenges in sharing laboratory data for notifiable diseases. Around two-thirds of countries face legal constraints […]
UNITED4Surveillance presented in the 16th European Public Health Conference 2023
On the 10th of November, 2023 NVSC (the National Public Health Centre under the Ministry of Health from Lithuania, one of the UNITED4Surveillance consortium members) participated in the 16th European Public Health Conference. As one of the panelists, NVSC presented UNITED4Surveillance in the workshop Fit for purpose surveillance – strategies to implement effective surveillance systems in EU/EEA […]
Workshop OneHealth surveillance (WP4)
Within WP4 all participating member states held national workshops on goal descriptions, stakeholderanalysis, and systems mapping. On September 29 Sciensano coordinated their national workshop about zoonotic influenza and salmonella surveillance in Belgium. For zoonotic influenza the main aim was to brainstorm on a sustainable surveillance system to detect human cases of animal influenza among workers […]
