The unit delivers advice and studies, software products, development expertise, front-end services, application hosting and enterprise infrastructure services.
With high-level expertise in the main specific disease areas as well as in some important generic determinants of infectious diseases, the office drives the scientific agenda of the ECDC, and oversees the quality of the scientific output of the Centre.
With broad expertise, the work of the unit aims at strengthening European capacities, knowledge and cooperation in communicable diseases prevention and control, in a way that is complementary to the other activities of the Centre.
The unit aims at top quality management of ECDC's human and financial resources. In its coordinating function it develops the implementation of quality management and a transparent internal communication.
With broad technical expertise in surveillance and response, the unit aims at ensuring timely detection of communicable disease threats, their assessment and providing support for enabling Member States to mitigate them.
