European Vaccine Hub to enhance health preparedness across EU
The initiative consist of key actions, that will amongst others, speed-up vaccine development to less than four months from identifying a pathogen's genomic sequence.
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The European Health Data Space cannot stand without a solid foundation of patients’ rights protection
Celebrated the XIX European Patients’ Rights Day at the EU Parliament
WHO’s state of the world's nursing report 2025
The 2025 edition provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the nursing workforce.
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WHO Member States conclude negotiations and make significant progress on draft pandemic agreement
After more than three years of negotiations, WHO reached a draft agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly in May.
How to respond when biomedical science and global health is under existential threat
US spending in biomedicine has driven pre-eminence in academia, Nobel prizes, scientific training discovery, translation and healthcare.
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Recommendations for preparedness planning for public health threats
ECDC has produced key lessons learned, from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the multicountry Mpox outbreak in 2022–2023. They are organised according to the phases of the continuous preparedness cycle: Anticipation, Response and Recovery.
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The European Commission proposes new rules to ensure stable supply of critical medicines
This initiative contributes to the European Health Union's goal of ensuring that EU patients have access to the medicines they need, when they need them.
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Europe needs a sustainably funded influenza research and response network
Six ESWI Board Members, led by Prof. Florian Krammer, together with a long list of prominent European scientists specialised in virology, immunology and epidemiology, have recently published a commentary in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.