Posts by Emily Loud

Global experts on pandemics and emergency management met in Brussels today and yesterday to help find better ways to identify and respond to potential pandemic threats to Europe. The recent appearance of the Zika virus in the Americas, followed by the World Health Organization’s declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, has posed…

This week the Pandemic Risk and Emergency Management (PANDEM) expert group met for the first time at the National University of Ireland Galway. PANDEM is a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, and aims to identify further research needed to strengthen pandemic surveillance, communications…