The objective of this document is to describe and to provide a simple template for the rapid evaluation and review of national pandemic responses in European Union (EU) and EEA member states (MS).
The new joint report by ECDC and Eurofound concludes that adult work-life balance was significantly affected by measures such as stay-at-home orders and recommendations.
Public health ethics, risk communication and the European framework for tackling cross-border health threats. These were the three themes of the 2022 edition of the ECDC European Summer School.
In an effort to continuously improve its performance, the Centre commissioned an external assessment of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic for the period January - September 2020. The report was presented to ECDC Management Board meeting 25 November 2020 with specific focus on its 26 recommendations, and is currently used as a basis for an action plan defined by ECDC management.
This report summarises the results from two epidemiological studies to investigate a possible association between an unexpected increase in narcolepsy cases following the use of the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccines. The studies were conducted by the Vaccine Adverse Event Surveillance and Communication (VAESCO) Consortium under the auspices of ECDC and undertaken in Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This Technical Report In Brief accompanies the full Report ‘Narcolepsy in association with pandemic influenza vaccination- A multi-country European epidemiological investigation’.