This course covers key risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) principles and illustrates how they can be operationalized in the context of an extended outbreak that affects different populations with varying risk levels.
This case study is aimed at building capacity on outbreak response in municipalities that have large numbers of foreign temporary workers, where an outbreak response needs to involve the employers and possibly other municipal services, including public health services.
This document provides operational recommendations regarding the implementation of a set of measures that has been agreed by the Member States in the context of a precautionary approach to potential severe worsening of the COVID-19 epidemiological situation.
This issue of the CDTR covers the period 11 – 17 December 2022 and includes updates on COVID-19, diphtheria, measles, streptococcal infection, invasive meningococcal disease, poliomyelitis, influenza, mass gathering monitoring, and Ebola virus disease.
In order to explore how insights from the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic may guide further preparedness for COVID-19 – as well as pandemic preparedness and response work in the EU more generally, ECDC organised an expert consultation in June 2022 on the implementation and evaluation of NPIs. This report summarises the findings from that consultation.