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On February 14th, 2024, the ESCAPE webinar “Connecting European Initiatives in Pandemic Preparedness” successfully introduced diverse European initiatives, laying the groundwork for future collaboration.

Public health officials from around the world are gathering this week in Geneva for a weeklong meeting of the 77th World Health Assembly. A key question they are examining is: Are we ready for the next pandemic? As we have written elsewhere, regarding access to and re-use of data, particularly non-traditional data, for pandemic preparedness and response: we are not. Below, we list ten recommendations to advance access to and reuse of non-traditional data for pandemics, drawing on input from a high-level workshop, held in Brussels, within the context of the ESCAPE program.

How to address the first and last mile challenges of data driven policy making is the focus of a forthcoming workshop focusing on mobility data for pandemics — within the context of the ESCAPE EU project. In this blog post for Data & Policy, Stefaan Verhulst, Daniela Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto and Alessandro Vespignani describe the rationale for seeking to address first and last mile challenges related to data for pandemics.