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ECDC issues migrant screening and vaccination guidance

news story - 5 Dec 2018

Increased rates of migration to and within the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in recent years has made the development of migration policy, including health policy, a priority for the region.

  • immunisation
  • migrant health

News

New ECDC tools: Strengthening preparedness and surveillance in migrant reception centres

news - 18 Oct 2016

As in other institutional settings, migrant reception/detention centres face specific challenges in preventing and controlling communicable disease transmission. In order to support EU/EEA Member States in improving preparedness and syndromic surveillance at migrant hosting sites, ECDC is launching two handbooks and related assessment tools.

  • migrant health
  • preparedness
Oct 2016

Event

Evidence-based guidance for the prevention of infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants in the EU/EEA

event
5 Oct 2016 - 6 Oct 2016
Stockholm
ECDC

​​This meeting was part of a project to systematically review and synthesize the evidence on preventing infectious diseases amongst newly arriving migrants within the existing health systems.

  • EU/EEA
  • migrant health
  • prevention and control

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Adoption of regional hepatitis action plan by WHO Regional Committee

ECDC comment - 20 Sep 2016

​This first European Action Plan provides an important driver to aid countries in their fight against viral hepatitis, to which ECDC had the opportunity to contribute directly.

  • hepatitis A
  • hepatitis B
  • hepatitis C
  • migrant health
  • viral hepatitis
Apr 2016

Event

ECDC mission to Greece to support national risk assessment needs related to refugees’ situation

event
7 Apr 2016
Greece
ECDC

Due to the arrival of  refugees in Greece, ECDC, the European Commission and Greek authorities continue to closely monitor the situation to rapidly identify and assess potential public health threats related to communicable diseases. 

  • EU/EEA
  • Greece
  • migrant health
  • public health response
  • public health threat
Feb 2016

Event

ECDC Acting Director’s Exchange of Views on 2015 activities before the ENVI Committee

event
23 Feb 2016
Brussels, Belgium
European Parliament

On 23 February 2016, ECDC Acting Director, Dr Andrea Ammon, presents the Centre’s key priorities and main activities in 2015 during an Exchange of Views before the Committee of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) of the European Parliament.

  • Ebola haemorrhagic fever
  • EU/EEA
  • influenza
  • migrant health
  • vaccine preventable diseases
  • Zika virus infection - Outbreak in the Americas
Nov 2015

Event

Evidence-based guidance for the prevention of infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants in the EU/EEA

event
12 Nov 2015 - 13 Nov 2015
ECDC, Stockholm
ECDC

​This was the first meeting of the advisory group for evidence-based guidance for the prevention of infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants in the EU/EEA.

  • EU/EEA
  • migrant health
  • prevention and control
  • public health threat
Apr 2014

Event

EUPHA’s 5th European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health

event
10 Apr 2014 - 12 Apr 2014
Granada, Spain
European Public Health Association (EUPHA)

The purpose of the conference was to provide a forum to share and discuss different approaches and practical experiences around migrants’ and ethnic minorities’ health and healthcare in a context of economic austerity.

  • health inequality
  • migrant health
Mar 2014

Event

Workshop on “Public Health benefits of screening for infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants in to the EU/EEA”

event
19 Mar 2014 - 20 Mar 2014
Athens, Greece
Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, ECDC

Under the auspices of the Greek Presidency of the EU Council, the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP) in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, hosted a technical expert workshop on “Public Health benefits of screening for infectious diseases among newly arrived migrants to the EU/EEA” in Athens.

  • health inequality
  • migrant health
  • prevention and control
Oct 2013

Event

Improving monitoring of HIV in migrant populations in the EU/EEA

event
3 Oct 2013 - 4 Oct 2013
Madrid, Spain
ECDC

​Workshop that aimed to contribute to improving the monitoring of HIV in migrant populations in the EU/EEA.

  • HIV infection
  • migrant health
  • prevention and control

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