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The Neglected Dimension of Global Security

Monday, July 11, 2016 - 14:43

GHRF Commission (Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future). 2016. The Neglected Dimension of Global Security – A Framework to Counter Infectious Disease Crises.

Source: 
Health authorities
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy, Prevention
Tags: 
GHRF, Preparedness

Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease: Workshop Summary

Monday, July 11, 2016 - 14:30

National Academy of Sciences. 2007. 

Source: 
Scientific literature
Target: 
Decision Makers
Topic: 
Policy
Tags: 
Ethic

Public Engagement in Research, Practice and Policy

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 (All day)

Public engagement that sets citizens and stakeholders as co-designers and collaborators of R&I activities can contribute to more dynamic and responsible governance of research and innovation. Public Engagement for Research, Practice and Policy conference, to be organized on November 16-17 in Brussels, calls for experts, stakeholders, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, researchers, regional authorities and Commission officials to a joint discussion on this theme.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Local Activities, Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Event, best practice, engagement, innovation

Public health in the aviation sector: the AIRSAN project

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 16:20

Two guidance documents supporting the response to public health threats in air transport were developed by the AIRSAN Project: the first on Remote risk assessment and management of communicable disease events on board an aircraft and the second on Contact tracing – Collaboration between the public health and the aviation sector. The r

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
public health, Risk management

Filling the gaps in preparedness plans

Friday, March 4, 2016 - 08:37
A rescue exercise carried out by civil protection and Red Cross volunteers in Tabarre.

Preparedness is a key strategic element of an effective response to health threats. However, despite evident improvements in recent years, there is still large evidence of ineffective management of epidemic and pandemic events at any level, as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa recently showed.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Preparedness, risk communication, Risk perception, Ebola

The efficacy of mandatory vaccinations. An ASSET analysis

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 16:04

The recent case of the French parents who risked a jail sentence for refusing to vaccinate their children reignited the intense debate over mandatory vaccinations, whose efficacy as an instrument to maintain high level of vaccine coverage has been questioned.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, policy

Raising awareness on gender issues in epidemics and pandemics

Friday, December 18, 2015 - 18:56

The consideration of sex and gender are not the most obvious issues that come to mind when discussing epidemics and pandemics. However, sex and gender have an important impact on these issues, since barriers to pandemic preparedness and risk behaviour can often be better understood when viewed from a sex and gender perspective.

Both gender and sex have an impact on experiences and behaviours relating to pandemics, epidemics and vaccination. The difference between sex and gender can be confusing, and the two words are often incorrectly used interchangeably.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Gender, Human Rights, Policy, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
gender issues, Preparedness, awareness, Risk perception

Preparedness summit

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 09:00

The Preparedness Summit is the premier national conference in the field of public health and healthcare preparedness and one of the only cross-disciplinary learning opportunities to address issues such as global health security.

The goal of the Preparedness Summit is to provide a venue where participants are exposed to current information, research findings, and practical tools to enhance the participants’ capabilities to plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters and other public health emergencies.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Policy
Tags: 
public health, Event

A new MMLAP Area for the discussion of best practices

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 09:54

A MMLAP (Mobilization and Mutual Learning Action Plan) Area has been activated within the Community of Practice of the ASSET website: this area is planned to stimulate the debate between the ASSET consortium and other MMLAP projects on the Best practices to develop and implement the communication between science and society.

Target: 
Decision Makers
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Local Activities, Mutual Learning, Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
MMLAP, participation, mutual learning

High-level meeting on refugee and migrant health

Monday, November 23, 2015 (All day)

Ministers and senior representatives of Member States in the European Region will meet to discuss the numerous public health challenges posed by large-scale movements of refugees and migrants to transit and destination countries. These range from management of communicable and noncommunicable diseases to the impact of large-scale migration on health systems. Given the inter-regional relevance of this topic, ministers from the main countries of origin and of transit of refugees and migrants – in the Eastern Mediterranean and African regions – are also invited.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Human Rights, Policy
Tags: 
migrants, refugees, WHO

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Health system analysis to support capacity development in response to the threat of pandemic influenza in Asia
BEWATER
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CASI
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CIMULACT
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DRIVER
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ECOM
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EPISOUTH
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EPIWORK
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EUROHEP
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EuroMOMO
European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action
EURONHID
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EUVAC.NET
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FLURESP
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PACITA
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PANDEM
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PE2020
Analysis of innovative public engagement tools and instruments for dynamic governance in the field of Science in Society
PERARES
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PHEME
Computing Veracity – the Fourth Challenge of Big Data
PREPARE
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PROMOVAX
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R&DIALOGUE
Creating mechanisms for effectively tackling the scientific and technology related challenges faced by society
RESPIRE
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SATORI
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Investigating how cities in the West securitise against global pandemics
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