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Union and National Capacity Building for IntegraTED Surveillance (U4S) [1]

Project duration:
January 1, 2023
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December 31, 2025

In short

With this project [2] we support European member states (25 countries are participating) and the EU to establish digitalised, integrated surveillance systems, operating both at national and European level. This improves early detection of infectious disease outbreaks, allows for more accurate risk assessment and empowers the member states to coordinate their response to any future pandemic. 
 

Project description

The global crisis generated by the COVID-19 outbreak has revealed an urgent need for improvement in public health preparedness and pandemic response at European level. UNITED4Surveillance contributes to the implementation of the new Health Security framework under the EU regulation on serious cross-border threats to health (2022/2371). This Joint Action also supports implementation of the long-term strategic framework for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control [3] (ECDC) in 2022–2025. We focus on integrating existing and new data sources for more comprehensive EU/EEA infectious disease surveillance, prevention and control. In doing so, UNITED4Surveillance contributes to surveillance capacity-building within Europe and beyond, working to improve global health security.

Our general objective is to strengthen infectious disease surveillance systems at the national level, with improvement of integration, interoperability, and digitalisation of data sources. We focus on outbreak detection/laboratory-based reporting, hospital surveillance, and One Health surveillance. UNITED4Surveillance proposes a roadmap on how to implement integrated surveillance at member state and Union level which

  • contains gaps and needs analysis;
  • integrates (inter)national polices;
  • identifies and pilots promising approaches;
  • disseminates best practices;
  • shares experiences and knowledge through capacity building.

For more information, visit the project website [2]

See all project partners [4]

 

Results

Report

Results of a survey carried out among Belgian laboratories regarding the surveillance of gastrointestinal bacteria [5]

Valorisation

Sciensano's project investigator(s):

Claire Brugerolles [9], Géraldine De Muylder [10], Sarah Denayer [11], Yinthe Dockx [12], Sébastien Fierens [13], Wesley Mattheus [14], Anna Parys [15], Dieter Van Cauteren [16]

Service(s) working on this project

Bacterial diseases [17]
Viral diseases [18]
Epidemiology of infectious diseases [19]

Financial Source

European Union (EU)
 [20]
Health and disease monitoring   [21]
Food consumption and food safety   [22]
Animal health   [23]

Associated Health Topics

Influenza [24]
Food-borne illness [25]
Avian influenza [26]
One Health [27]
  1. integrated surveillance [28]
  2. one health [29]
  3. disease outbreaks [30]
  4. hospital surveillance [31]
  5. digital data [32]
Source URL:https://www.sciensano.be/en/projects/union-and-national-capacity-building-integrated-surveillance-u4s

Links
[1] https://www.sciensano.be/en/projects/union-and-national-capacity-building-integrated-surveillance-u4s [2] https://united4surveillance.eu/ [3] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en [4] https://united4surveillance.eu/partners/ [5] https://www.sciensano.be/sites/default/files/cidt_surveyresults_en.pdf [6] https://www.sciensano.be/en/events/u4s-workshop-one-health-surveillance [7] https://www.sciensano.be/en/press-corner/sciensano-coordinates-a-national-workshop-one-health-surveillance-zoonotic-influenza-viruses-and [8] https://www.sciensano.be/en/events/u4s-workshop-one-health-surveillance-26092024 [9] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/claire-brugerolles [10] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/geraldine-de-muylder [11] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/sarah-denayer [12] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/yinthe-dockx [13] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/sebastien-fierens [14] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/wesley-mattheus [15] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/anna-parys [16] https://www.sciensano.be/en/people/dieter-van-cauteren [17] https://www.sciensano.be/en/about-sciensano/sciensanos-organogram/bacterial-diseases [18] https://www.sciensano.be/en/about-sciensano/sciensanos-organogram/viral-diseases [19] https://www.sciensano.be/en/about-sciensano/sciensanos-organogram/epidemiology-infectious-diseases [20] https://www.sciensano.be/en/partners/european-union-eu [21] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/health-and-disease-monitoring [22] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/food-consumption-and-food-safety [23] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/animal-health [24] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/influenza [25] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/food-borne-illness [26] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/avian-influenza [27] https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/one-health-0 [28] https://www.sciensano.be/en/keywords/integrated-surveillance [29] https://www.sciensano.be/en/keywords/one-health [30] https://www.sciensano.be/en/keywords/disease-outbreaks [31] https://www.sciensano.be/en/keywords/hospital-surveillance [32] https://www.sciensano.be/en/keywords/digital-data