This technical report presents an analysis focusing on three issues (testing and surveillance, healthcare sector coordination, and emergency risk communication) during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis identifies specific challenges that were experienced in t...

The COVID-19 health crisis and its devastating socioeconomic impact has in the past couple of years necessitated stronger partnerships and increased efforts to deepen cooperation among nations. It has brought to the fore the need to pool together and forge more robust and resilie...

Long-term care has become an increasingly salient topic in recent decades in EU Member States’ policy and political agendas, for several reasons, ranging from population ageing to a lack of sufficient and/ or adequate services and the costs associated with adequate care. The COVI...

The goal of this report is to take stock of the early behavioural sciences literature on COVID-19 misinformation. Specifically, this report addresses the following three main questions. (1) Who was most likely to believe or share COVID-19 misinformation? (2) What were the consequ...

This paper explores the impact of COVID-19 on patient organisations in the health field by focusing on four cancer patient organisations and examining their specific responses to COVID-19 restrictions and associated lockdown measures in the UK. Also, it examines the wider implica...

Throughout 2021, for the second consecutive year, the ECDC public health emergency (PHE) plan in response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic was maintained at the maximum level of alert. ECDC had started operating at PHE level 2, acute phase on 31 January 2020 and continues oper...

This document sets out the priorities in ECDC's work programme based on its strategy, with relevant information on objectives, performance indicators and resource allocation. ...

In 2009, ECDC published its report ‘Core competencies for EU public health epidemiologists in communicable disease surveillance and response’. As over ten years have now passed, it was important to update the core competencies in applied infectious disease epidemiology to reflect...

The European Commission has launched the Healthier together – EU Non-Communicable Diseases Initiative (EU NCD Initiative) to support EU countries in identifying and implementing effective policies and actions to reduce the burden of major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and impr...

In 2020, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) requested the start of the second year of an External Quality Assessment (EQA) scheme for the European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance network, for the detection, isolation, identification, and enumeration ...