This annual meeting of National ECDC Correspondents focused on the technical cooperation developments over the last year in the areas of disease surveillance, microbiology, preparedness and response.
Collaboration with countries that have applied to join the EU has been one of ECDC’s strategic priorities since the early years of its establishment, and is endorsed in the Amended ECDC Strategy 2021–2027.
Work Programme 2024 for the EU Initiative on Health Security, which works to set up a regional workforce responsible for the prevention and control of communicable diseases.
Since its creation in 2004, ECDC has been committed to protecting human health through the prevention and control of communicable diseases and special health issues.