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 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 […]
UNITED4Surveillance Workshops
In the period from April to May 2023, Workshops were successfully held for Outbreak detection (WP2) in respectively Copenhagen and Berlin and for Hospital Surveillance (WP3) in Rome. The groundwork for ongoing collaboration within the UNITED4Surveillance is well established through these workshops. We are looking forward taking the next step to strengthen our infectious disease […]
Workshop on the inventory of current surveillance systems for severe infections leading to hospitalization (WP3)
May 22 & 23, 2023 – Rome, Italy On 22-23 May in Rome hosted by ISS, survey results on surveillance of severe infectious diseases that lead to hospitalization were shared. We discussed our experiences with hospital surveillance, the gaps and barriers encountered, and possible solutions to be taken. Piloting plans were presented by participating countries […]
Workshops under WP2 outbreak detection
Task 1 Improving laboratory-based reporting Under Work Package 2 Outbreak Detection, Task 1 “Improving Laboratory-based Reporting”, two workshops were held back-to-back on 26 and 27 April in Copenhagen. Hosted by Statens Serum Institut (SSI, DK) and facilitated by the task leads from SSI and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, NL), […]
