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5 Jun 2024

Connected, Scalable, and Prepared! Different approaches by EU-funded projects towards one common goal: Collaborative Preparedness.

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

Connected, Scalable, and Prepared! Different approaches by EU-funded projects towards one common goal: Collaborative Preparedness.

1 Jun 2024

Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? Navigating the First and Last Mile Challenges in Data Utilization

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.

Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? Navigating the First and Last Mile Challenges in Data Utilization

2 Feb 2024

Outpacing Pandemics: Solving the First and Last Mile Challenges of Data-Driven Policy Making

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.

Outpacing Pandemics: Solving the First and Last Mile Challenges of Data-Driven Policy Making

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Past Events

  • Accelerating Access to Non-Traditional Data for Pandemic Modeling and Response
    Accelerating Access to Non-Traditional Data for Pandemic Modeling and Response
    22 Mar 2024, 09:00 – 17:00
    Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
    Join us on March 22, 2024, at the prestigious University Foundation in Brussels, Belgium, for an in-depth exploration on leveraging non-traditional data to revolutionize pandemic preparedness and response strategies.
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  • Connecting European Initiatives in Pandemic Preparedness
    Connecting European Initiatives in Pandemic Preparedness
    14 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 17:00 CET
    Webinar
    In this webinar, we provide a forum for selected European projects to showcase their approaches to addressing questions related to pandemic preparedness, with the goal of identifying potential collaborations.
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  • Launch Event ESCAPE
    Launch Event ESCAPE
    Thu, 12 Jan
    12 Jan 2023, 20:00 CET
    Hasselt, Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt, België
    Researchers from the consortium present their lessons learned and objectives for the ESCAPE project
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This project was supported by the ESCAPE project (101095619), funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. 

This work was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number 10051037].

This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 22.00482.

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