The Health Status Report combines the results of different sources to estimate how healthy the Belgian is. In general, the Belgian is rather healthy, but there are some areas of improvement. In addition, there are significant inequalities, both regionally and socio-economically.
The online report is based on the most recent data and will be continuously updated with the results of new studies, so that health policy makers can develop policies on a continuous basis, based on current needs.

The call for applications for the project ‘National Reference Centres in Human Microbiology’ has been launched this Monday, January 21, 2019.

This page only exists in French and Dutch. For further information (in English) about the seasonal flu epidemic in Belgium, please visit the website ‘Influenza’ of Sciensano.

Sciensano welcomes the One Health EJP’s Scientific Steering Board to discuss and assess One Health research in Europe. The EJP is a H2020 project that started in January 2018 and lasts for 5 years

Sciensano is the Belgian national reference laboratory for African Swine Fever (ASF).

According to the most recent country report of the WHO, written for the 3rd UN High Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases (which is held today in New York), 43200 lives could be saved in Belgium, if we would beat chronic diseases.

Sciensano is pleased to announce that An Van den Bossche, a researcher at the service Bacterial diseases of the Scientific Directorate Infectious diseases in humans at Sciensano, received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the annual conference of the European Society of Mycobacteriology in Dresden, Germany.