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Paper series 6 - The role of citizens in times of an epidemic or pandemic

Monday, December 11, 2017 - 09:37

John Haukeland, Rebecca Moore, Lise Bitsch, Valentina Possenti

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
citizen consultation, science-in-society, Preparedness, policies
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Eupati, a project for informed patient and citizens

October 24, 2017

EUPATI, European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation, is a patient-led initiative that uses training courses, educational material and an online public library for empowering patients to engage more effectively in the development and approval of new treatments and become true partners in pharmaceutical research and development. Filippo Buccella, chairman of the Italian Liaison Team explains to ASSET how this initiative can involve healthy citizens as well, improving preparedness to infectious outbreaks and other crises.

Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Treatment
Tags: 
Video, engagement, participation, research, Preparedness
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The ASSET final event

Monday, October 30, 2017 - 11:00

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. Its aim is to enhance advocacy and intersectoral approach in a multisetting scenario applied to fostering preparedness and response toward Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and even pandemics.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

The ASSET final event

Monday, October 23, 2017 - 16:26

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. Its aim is to enhance advocacy and intersectoral approach in a multisetting scenario applied to fostering preparedness and response toward Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and even pandemics.

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

Pandemic Influenza Risk Management – A WHO guide to inform and harmonize national and international pandemic preparedness and response

WHO. 2017 May. Pandemic Influenza Risk Management – A WHO guide to inform and harmonize national and international pandemic preparedness and response

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
WHO, influenza, pandemic, Preparedness, public health, guide
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Registrations are open for the ASSET final conference

Monday, August 28, 2017 - 08:56

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. It is conceived as a mobilization and mutual learning event at local, national and international levels on Science in Society related issues in epidemics and pandemics.

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

The citizen consultation at the European Parliament

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 (All day)

Members of the ASSET projects will present the results of the citizen consultation that took place in eight countries on September 2016 at the European Parliament. Such an event is part of the science-in-society approach performed by the project within the framework of Research and Innovation related to pandemic preparedness. ASSET citizen consultation is an innovative method of engaging citizens on complex issues, providing them with information before asking questions.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Gender, Local Activities, Policy, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
science-in-society, risk communication, Preparedness, citizen consultation, Vaccines

Paper series 2 - Democracy and human rights under Public Health Emergency (PHE) threat

Saturday, November 19, 2016 - 10:06

Solveig Wallyn, Eva Benelli, Alessandra Craus, Alberto d'Onofrio, Mitra Saadatian-Elahi

Topic: 
Human Rights
Tags: 
public health, ethics, Preparedness, influenza, flu, science-in-society
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A spontaneous, collaborative effort for early diagnosis of infectious outbreaks

October 11, 2016

Preparedness is also made of vigilance towards new infectious threats. Professor Bert Niesters from the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, tells ASSET an example of spontaneous cooperation among 42 laboratories from more than 20 countries in Europe in facing an emerging, dangerous infection: enterovirus D68 respiratory epidemic in 2014-2015. That experience is now going on, taking the name of EUROTYPE.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
Video, Preparedness, enterovirus
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Ethical issues in national pandemic influenza plans

Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 09:38
Ethic dataviz

Influenza pandemics are unpredictable but recurring events that can have severe consequences on human health and socio-economic life to global level. For this reason, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended all countries to prepare a pandemic influenza plan following its own guidelines.

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Policy, Prevention
Tags: 
Dataviz, ethics, Preparedness

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Action plan on Science in Society related issues in Epidemics and Total pandemics
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612236.

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