This policy elaborates upon how scientific integrity – with a special focus on scientific independence – is to be maintained during all ECDC scientific activity, whether conducted internally or in collaboration with other parties.
ECDC adheres to principles of transparency and equitability of access to its work and ensures that its outputs are available to all in a timely fashion.
Work Programme 2023 for the EU Initiative on Health Security, which works to set up a regional workforce responsible for the prevention and control of communicable diseases.
As the health systems in EU Member States gradually return to a routine operations mode, work on the priorities that the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen formulated in 2019 is expected to resume at full speed during 2023: e-health and the European Health Data Space to promote health data exchange; the implementation of the European ‘One Health’ Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance and the cooperation at international level on antimicrobials; as well as actions to strengthen the performance of vaccination programmes in the EU, including addressing vaccine hesitancy. These issues will remain among ECDC’s highest priorities in the years to come.