Our products and services

We provide a variety of services for people and businesses. Here is a glimpse at what we offer.

What we do for you, the civilian

Every day, Sciensano watches over the health of the population and of the farm animals. We identify new developments and take initiatives to improve public health including the impact of animal health on public health. The results of Sciensano’s science and research are published on Sciensano’s website, or distributed by reports, brochures and press. They allow you and the public to better make informed, healthy choices.

What we do for businesses and government

The results of Sciensano’s science and research allow policy makers, the scientific, medical and veterinary community to better make informed, healthy choices.

Policy support

Sciensano’s research and applied science are used to help develop the nation’s policies and programs. The work of our scientists and researchers helps influence decisions about diseases, hazardous substances, food and drugs, consumer products, and much more.

Sciensano’s independence is guaranteed. The scientific quality of our work is overseen by a Scientific Counsel and 5 Science Advisory Boards.

National coordination

Due to Belgium’s complex three-level structure, public and animal health policy competences are shared between the Federal State, the Communities and the Regions. Sciensano assures the nation-wide coordination of health activities, aiming at adequate knowledge for policy-making. This coordination helps to develop policy, to govern its implementation, and to gather uniform, qualitative public health information nation-wide.

International representation

Health issues transcend national boarders and demand an international approach. As nation-wide coordinator of public health activities, Sciensano represents Belgium in various international networks and assures activities on behalf of international clients such as the:

Aarhus University Hospital
Institute of Pharmacology & Structural Biology
University of Pisa
Stichting Beep
Universitaet Bern
Institut National de la Recherche Argonomique
Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg
Suomen Mehiläishoitajain Liitto
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
Beesources
Forschungszentrum Borstel
Universitatea De Stiinte Agricole Si Medicina Veterinara Cluj Napoca
Aarhus Universitet
The Nottingham Trent University
Pensoft Publishers
Universidade De Coimbra
Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA)
Croatian Institute of Public Health
University of Santiago de Compostela
International Stevia Council
French agency for food, environmental and occupational health & safety (ANSES)
Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Folkhälsomyndigheten (FOHM)
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRAE)
Institute Nacional de Saúde (INSA)
Istituto Superiore di Santiá (ISS)
National Veterinary Research Institute of Poland (PIWET)
University of Dakar, Senegal
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Osterreichische Agentur fur Gesundheit und Ernahrungssicherheit
Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA)
National Institute of Public Health Czech Republic (SZU)
Veterinary Research Institute Czech Republic (VRI)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Estonian Veterinary and Food Laboratory (VFL)
Center for Veterinary Health Surveillance (VISAVET) U.C.M.
 Association Med-Vet-Net de Recherche sur les Zoonoses (MVNA)
Department of Health/Public Health England
National Institute of Public Education Hungary (OKI)
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland (TEAGASC)
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna, Italy (IZSLER)
Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH)
National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research, Portugal (INIAV)
Institutul de Igiena si Sanatate Publica Veterinara, Romania (IISPV)
National Food Agency, Sweden (SLV)
National Veterinary Institute, Sweden (SVA)
Horizon 2020
Institut Pasteur St Petersburg
Energy control (Spain)
Medizinische Universitaet Wien
Kosmicare (Portugal)
Youth Organisations for Drug Action
Beratung, Arbeit, Jugend & Kultur E.V. (BASiS)
DrogArt (Slovenia)
European Union's Justice Programme - Drugs policy Initiatives
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS)
Ligue des Usagers des Services de Santé (LUSS)
Netherlands institute for health services research (nivel)
Ipsos MORI
Institute for Health Research of the University of Exeter
Fundacion Avedis Donabedian Research Institute (UAB)
The OptiMedis AG
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
University of Vienna
Children's Hospital Srebrnjak
Haute écoles spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO)
GGD Zuid Limburg
Maastricht UMC+
Gesundheitsamt des Kreises Heinsberg
Gesundheitsamt Düren
European Regional Development Fund
INFORMAS
Stichting euPrevent
McGill University
Cyprus Prison Department
Prisoners Rights Protection CY
International Coordination of Research on Infectious Animal Diseases (ICRAD)
Institute of Virology and Immunology (IVI)
Interuniversity Consortium Epidemiology (ICE)
Idryma technologia kai erevnas (FORTH)
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR)
Centre Internacional de Metodes Numerics en Enginyeria (CIMNE)
Universite degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale (UCAS)
Sphynx Analytics Limited (SANL)
Intracom SA Telecom Solutions (ICOM)
Stiching Hoger Beroepsonderwijs Haaglanden (THUAS)
Telecom Italia SPA (TIM)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI)
Technische Universiteit Delft (TUD)
Ministerio de Sanidad (MHS)
Agentschap Telecom (AT)
Universitaetsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-universitaet Mainz (IMBEI)
Universitat Zurich (UZH)
CHAIN
National Institute for Health Development Estonia
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Scientific and technical center for building
Egas Moniz Cooperative of Higher Education
University of Porto
Eurohealthnet
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (University of Washington)
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
National Institute Of Public Health Slovenia (NIJZ)
Universitetska Spetsializirana Bolnitsa Za Aktivno Lechenie Po (USHATO)
Ministry Of Health Of The Republic Of Cyprus (MOH-CY)
Fakultni Nemocnice V Motole (UH MOTOL)
Sotsiaalministeerium Estonia (MSAE)
1ST Ygeionomiki Perifereia Dype Attikis (1ST YPE)
Orszagos Onkologiai Intezet (OOI)
Department of Health Ireland (DOH)
Alleanza Contro Il Cancro Italy (ACC)
Rigas Austrumu Kliniska Universitates Slimnica Sia Latvia (REUH)
Lietuvos Respublikos Sveikatos Apsaugos Ministerija Lithuania (SAM LT)
Oslo Universitetssykehus HF Norway (OUS)
19. Narodowy Instytut Zdrowia Publicznego Pzh – Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Poland (NIZP-PZH)
Ministerio Da Saude - Republica Portuguesa (MS)
Institutul Oncologic Prof Dr Ion Chiricuta Cluj-Napoca (IOCN)
Narodny Onkologicky Ustav Slovakia (NOU)
Socialstyrelsen, Sweden (NBHW)
Gesundheid Osterreich GMBH (GOG)
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori Italy (INT-MI)
stituto Romagnolo per lo studio dei tumori dino amadori Italy (IRST SRL)
Fondazione Centreo Nazionale Di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO), Italy
Istituto Nazionale Tumori – Fondazione Pascale (INT-NA), Italy
Instituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV), Italy
Istituto Giannina Gaslini (GASLINI), Italy
UNICANCER, France
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg (DKFZ), Germany
Ethniko Idryma Erevnon (NHRF), Greece
Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon (NKUA), Greece
Viesoji Istaiga Vilniaus Universiteto Ligonine Santaros Klinikos (VULSK) Lithuania
Lietuvos Sveikatos Mokslu Universiteto Ligonine Kauno Klinikos (LSMUL KK), Lithuania
Nacionalinis Vezio Institutas (NCI LT), Lithuania
Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie – Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy (MSCI), Poland
Asociacion Instituto de Investigacion en Servicioc de Salud-Kronikgune (KRONINGUNE), Spain
Fundacion Instituto de Investigacion Marques de Valdecilla (IDIVAL), Spain
Consorcio Centro De Investigacion Biomedica En Red M.P. (CIBER), Spain
Hospital Sant Joan De Déu (HSJD), Spain
Servicio Andaluz de Salud (SAS), Spain
Health Data Lab (Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices – BfArM)
Norwegian Directorate of eHealth
Danish Health Data Authority
Region Midtjylland
FinData
National Directorate General for Hospitals (OKFO)
BBMRI
Elixir
Orphanet
EBRAINS
Eupha
Maastricht University
Cancer Society of Finland (CSF)
Association Europeenne des Ligues Contre le Cancer (ECL)
Centrum voor Kankeropsporing (CvKO vzw)
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Instituto De Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Université du Luxembourg (UNILU)
Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy (CSC)
Uppsala Universitet (UU)
Medical University Sofia (MUS)
Universitetet I Oslo (UIO)
Nationalt Genom Center (NGC)
Ruder Boskovic Institute (RBI)
Latvijas Biomedicinas Petijumu Un Studiju Centrs (LBMC)
Fundacio Centre De Regulacio Genomica (CRG-CERCA)
Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen (UT)
Stichting Health-Ri (HRI)
Associacao BIP4DAB (BioData.pt)
Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland (RCSI)
Empirica Gesellschaft Fur Kommunikations Und Technologieforschung Mbh (EMPIRICA)
Health Research Board (HRB)
Institut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
Universitaetsklinikum Aachen (UKA)
Helsingin Yliopisto (UH)
Stichting Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis (NKI)
Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum (IMEC)
Latvijas Republikas Veselibas Ministrija (MoH-LV)
Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen (UMCG)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacional De Supercomputacion (BSC)
Biobanks And Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (ALU-FR)
Univerza V Mariboru (UM)
Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (IIT)
European Institute For Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR)
Fundacion Para La Investigacion Del Hospital Universitario La Fe De La Comunidad Valenciana (HULAFE)
Universitat Politecnica De Valencia (UPV)
Maggioli Spa (MAG)
Universitat De Barcelona (UB)
Umea Universitet (UMU)
Eatris Eric
Matical Innovation SL (MAT)
Euro-Bioimaging Eric
Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed
Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (AUTH)
Panepistimiako Geniko Nosokomeio Thessalonikis Axepa (AHEPA)
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris (APHP)
Bahia Software SL
Fundacao D. Anna De Sommer Champalimaud E Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud (CF)
College Des Enseignants De Radiologie De France (CERF)
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS (FPG)
GE Medical Systems SCS (GEHC)
GE Healthcare GMBH (GEHC DE)
GE Healthcare Magyarorszag Kft (GEHC HU)
Policlinico San Donato Spa (PSD)
Hospital Clinic De Barcelona (HCB)
Hellenic Cancer Society (HCS)
Servicio Madrileno De Salud (SERMAS)
Fondazione Istituto Firc Di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM)
Instituto Tecnologico De Informatica (ITI)
Synlab SDN SPA
Sorbonne Université (LIMICS)
Linkopings Universitet (LIU)
Medexprim (MEDEX)
Universita Degli Studi Di Roma La Sapienza (SAPIENZA)
Philips GMBH
Quibim Sociedad Limitada
Stichting Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum (RADBOUDUMC)
Klinikum Rechts Der Isar Der Technischen Universitat Munchen (TUM)
Universitat De Valencia (UV)
Owkin France
Oncoradiomics (RAD)
Servicos Partilhados Do Ministerio Da Saude Epe (SPMS)
Stichting EGI
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Gdanski Uniwersytet Medyczny (GUMed)
Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et Automatique (INRIA)
S2 Grupo De Innovacion En Procesos Organizativos Sl – S2G
Centro Hospitalar Universitario Do Porto EPE (CHUP)
Masarykova Univerzita (MU)
Istituti Fisioterapici Ospitalieri (IFO)
Siec Badawcza Lukasiewicz - Port Polski Osrodek Rozwoju Technologii
Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
Region Vasterbotten (RegVB)
IQVIA Information, S.A.U.
Institut Curie
Hospices Civils De Lyon (HCL)
Agència De Qualitat I Avaluació Sanitàries De Catalunya (AQUAS)
Instituto De Investigación Biomédica De Salamanca (IBSAL)
Valle De Hebrón Instituto De Oncología (VHIO)
De Clercq & Partners
Comite Europeen De Coordination Des Industries Radiologiques Electromedicales Et D Informatique De Sante ASBL (COCIR)
University of Kolwezi
College of Oncology
National Center of Public Health and Analyses Bulgaria (NCPHA)
Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic (UZIS)
Federal Ministry of Health Germany (BMG)
7th Health Region of Crete (7 HRC)
Institute of Oncology of the Republic of Moldova (IMSP IO)
Ministry of Health of Portugal (MS)
National Institute of Public Health Romania (INSP)
Institute of Public Health of Serbia “Dr Milan Jovanović Batut” (IPHS)
Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS)
German Cancer Society (DKG)
Technical University Dresden (TU Dresden)
University Medicine Köln (UK Köln)
“Marius Nasta” Pneumophtisiology Institute Romania (IPMN)
Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuţă” Romania (IOCN)
Emergency Clinical County Hospital Craiova Romania (CCHC)
Clinical Centre of Kragujevac Serbia (CCK)
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia (UBEO)
Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia (IORS)
Public Health Institute Niš, Serbia (IPHN)
Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina Serbia (IPHV)
Oncology Institute of Vojvodina Serbia (IOV)
Provincial Secretariat for Health Care Serbia (APV)
Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research of Valencia Region (FISABIO)
Region Syddanmark, Denmark
Dioikisi 3is Ygeionomikis Perifereias Makedonias, Greece
Narodne Centrum Zdravotnickych Informacii, Slovakia
Technologiko Panepistimio Kyprou, Cyprus
Pagkyprios Syndesmos Karkinopathon Kai Filon 1986, Cyprus
Instituto Portugues De Oncologia De Lisboa Francisco Gentil Epe, Portugal
Instituto Portugues De Oncologia Do Porto Francisco Gentil Epe, Portugal
Instituto Português De Oncologia De Coimbra Francisco Gentil, Portugal
Helsedirektoratet, Norway
Co-funded by the European Union
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data (DANS)
European clinical research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN)
European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)
ERINHA
MIRRI/MIRRI-IT
Fraunhofer
Greek review of social research (ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ)
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INSTRUCT-ERIC
Lygature – Dutch health hub
PHIRI
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Public Research Institution (ISAS CR )
Czech Social Sciences Data Archive (CSDA)
University of Freiburg
Univerzita Palackého
SciLifeLab Data Centre
Consorzio Interuniversitario Risonanze Magnetiche Di Metallo Proteine (CIRMMP)
Ospedale Policlinico San Martino (IRCCS)
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe)
University of Ljubljana, Social Science Data Archives (ADP)
eScience Lab, The University of Manchester
Higher Education Commission Pakistan
EU Joint Action IPAAC (Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer)
European Cancer Organisation, ECO
Intituto Toscano Tumori, ITT
 Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality (Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad) MSSSI
Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis, EL
Geniko Nosokomeio Papageorgiou, EL
Ospedale San Raffaele Srl, IT
RIKOLTO
Generalitat Valenciana
FISABIO
Dioikisi 6is Ygeionomikis Perifereias Peloponnisou Ionion Nyson Ipeirou kai Dytikis Elladas (6th Health ADM)
Agence Nationale De Sante Publique (France)
Ethnikos Organismos Parochis Ypiresion Ygias (Greece)
Panepistimio Thessalias / University of Thessaly
Panepistimio Kritis / University of Crete (Greece)
Országos Kórházi Főigazgatóság (Hungary)
Università politecnica delle Marche (Italy)
Slimibu Profilakses Un Kontroles Centrs (Latvia)
Higienos institutas (Lithuania)
Universitatea De Stat De Medicina Si Farmacie Nicolae Testemitanu Din Republica Moldova
Folkehelseinstituttet (Norway)
The Ministry Of Health Of The Republic Of Poland
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina (Portugal)
Universidade Nova De Lisboa
Folkhälsomyndigheten (Sweden)
Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais (LNE)
Service Commun des Laboratories (SCL), Bordeaux, France
Dublin Public Analyst's Laboratory (HSE), Ireland
Singapore Food Agency (SFA)
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)
-Agence nationale des informations partagées dans de domaine de la santé
Cimbiose
Rigas Stradina Universitate
Syadem
Universität Des Saarlandes
Federation Europeenne d'Associations et d'Industries Pharmaceutiques
Uniwersytet Medyczny Im Piastow Slaskich We Wroclawiu
Institut national de recherche et de sécurité France (INRS)
Nestlé Waters Management and Technologya
Instituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM)
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und – prüfung (BAM)
Dansk Fundamental Metrologi A/S (DFM)
Instituto Hidrográfico (Ihi)
Instituto Português da Qualidade, I.P. (IPQ)
LCG Limited
Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning (NIVA)
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Umweltbundesamt
FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências
Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH
Postnova Analytics GmbH
SINTEF AS
Universidade da Coruña (UDC)
Università degli Studi di Parma (UNIPR)
Università degli Studi di Torino (UNITO)
HORIBA FRANCE SAS
SmartMembranes GmbH
European Partnership on Metrology (Euramet)
European Reference Networks (ERNs)
Horizon Europe

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Working at Sciensano means contributing to our motto 'healthy all life long'.

Sciensano is interested in partnering to further its public health mission.

Sciensano is the point of contact for public health issues.

5 scientific directorates supported by administrative offices.

For more than a century, Sciensano has been a reference in the field of health.

Sciensano’s employees recognise their responsibilities and share core values.

Sciensano must implement all necessary measures to ensure the reliability of its work.

Sciensano responds to emergencies that may affect public health.

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