European Immunization Week (EIW) is marked across Europe every year in the final week of April, to raise awareness of the importance of immunisation for the general health and well-being of the European and wider population.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) convened on 6 and 7 December in Amsterdam the first meeting of the Immunisation and Vaccine Monitoring Advisory Board (IVMAB) of the Vaccine Monitoring Platform (VMP).
A new e-learning course aimed at understanding and addressing online vaccination misinformation is now available in the ECDC Virtual Academy. It was designed to support public health practitioners and risk communicators in fighting the spread of vaccination misinformation on social media and other digital platforms.