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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2026

The EU Health Task Force for emergency preparedness and response: overview of its first 2 years of operation, 2023 to 2025.

Orla Condell, Despina Pampaka, Adriana Romani, Daniel Cauchi, Dorothée Obach, Emma Löf, Ettore Severi, Stefania De Angelis, Adela Paez Jimenez, Alexandre Jully and 24 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Orla CondellEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Despina PampakaEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Adriana RomaniEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Daniel CauchiEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Dorothée ObachEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Emma LöfEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Ettore SeveriEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Stefania De AngelisEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Adela Paez JimenezWorld Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Alexandre JullyEuropean Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Ana Ascenção E SilvaEuropean Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Andras ArmväärtPublic health emergencies preparedness department, Health Board, Tallinn, Estonia.
Anna BattistuttaEuropean Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Bernardo Guzman-HerradorCoordinating Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain.
Claudia SiffczykUnit for crisis management, outbreak investigations & training programmes, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Daniela GaroneMédecins Sans Frontières International, Geneva, Switzerland.
Dimitrios ParaskevisNational Public Health Organization, Athens, Greece.
Emily MacDonaldNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
Evelyn DepoortereEuropean Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Gianluca LoiGlobal Outbreak Alert and Response Network, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Guido BenedettiDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Isabella PanunziEuropean Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Jorgen StassijnsCrisis Preparedness and Response, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Laura GilliniEuropean Commission, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Máirín BolandDepartment of Public Health, HSE Dublin and Midlands, Dublin, Ireland.
Manuela MuraDepartment of Public Health Threats, European Medicines Agency (EMA), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Oleg StorozhenkoWorld Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Otto HelveDepartment of Public Health, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Panu SaaristoInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Europe Region, Budapest, Hungary.
Paula VasconcelosPublic Health Emergencies Operations Centre, Directorate-General of Health, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ricardo MexiaEuropean Public Health Association (EUPHA), Utrecht, Netherlands.
Sébastien FrançaisEmergency Preparedness and Response Unit, Health Directorate, Ministry of Health and Social Security, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Thomas HoffmanEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Vicky LefevreEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The European Union (EU) Regulation on serious cross-border threats to health (2022/2371) and ECDC's enhanced mandate (2022/2370) established the EU Health Task Force (EUHTF) as a deployable public health workforce providing emergency response and preparedness support globally during EU Public Health Emergency and non-emergency periods. The EUHTF comprises an ECDC Coordination Team and three expert pools: the ECDC expert pool, the ECDC fellowship pool and the external expert pool. The EUHTF's establishment and operationalisation was guided by an advisory group with representatives from EU/EEA countries, the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency, the World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network and other international stakeholders. Mechanisms were developed for EUHTF logistics within the EU/EEA, while formalised partnerships facilitate operations beyond the EU/EEA. From its inception in January 2023 to 31 December 2025, the EUHTF supported 31 requests: 23 from 15 EU/EEA countries, including 19 on preparedness and four on outbreak response, and eight emergency response assignments from outside the EU/EEA. The EUHTF facilitates stronger EU/EEA-level support for disease outbreaks inside and outside the EU/EEA, enhances ECDC's capacity to mobilise European expertise and enables close collaboration with global partners and EU/EEA countries to ensure coordination and efficient use of resources.

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Advisory CommitteesCivil DefenseDisaster PlanningDisease OutbreaksPublic HealthEuropean UnionHumansInternational CooperationPublic Health InfrastructureDeploymentsEmergency responseEuropean UnionOutbreaks and crisesPreparedness

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PMCPMC13074233

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