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. […]
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 Infographic
We are proud to present the UNITED4Surveillance infographic! The infographic illustrates in a glance how the Joint Action UNITED4Surveillance will assist in our mission to be better prepared for future cross-border health threats.
UNITED4Surveillance officially kicked-off in Utrecht, the Netherlands
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), coordinator of the project, hosted the official UNITED4Surveillance kick-off on 14 and 15 February 2023 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. More than 100 experts and policymakers from 25 European countries attended the hybrid kick-off on Day 1, of which 70 participants physically attended the meeting […]
