Union and National Capacity Building 4 IntegraTED Surveillance

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The global crisis generated by the COVID-19 outbreak has revealed that the preparedness and responses to pandemics need to be urgently improved at European level. UNITED4Surveillance will contribute to the implementation of the new Health Security framework under the health union regulation on serious cross-border threats to health, and support the implementation of the ECDC long term strategic framework for the period of 2022-2025, in relation to unlocking existing and new data sources for more comprehensive EU/EEA infectious disease surveillance, prevention, and control, and contributing to surveillance capacity building within Europe and beyond for better global health security. Representing 24 countries in Europe, UNITED4Surveillance gathers expertise in public health, (clinical) microbiology, epidemiology, and data-science, over the domains of public health, animal, and environmental health, thereby creating a strong network in integrated surveillance for infectious disease prevention and control. Our general objectives are to support in strengthening national integrated surveillance systems and scaling-up to EU level and to improve national surveillance systems by integrating different sources of electronic health data and digital registers/databases, thereby enhancing EU/EEA surveillance system. UNITED4Surveillance will propose a Roadmap to implementation of integrated surveillance at Member State and Union level which will 1) contain gaps and needs analysis, 2) integrate (inter)national polices, 3) identify and pilot promising approaches, 4) disseminate best practices and 5) share experiences and knowledge through capacity building.