Project description
Novel IT system helping the EU prepare for pandemic scenarios
Pandemics are a major threat to our health and security. To protect citizens, effective pandemic preparedness and response at all levels is needed. Following the PANDEM project, the EU-funded PANDEM-2 project will develop a prototype IT system to enhance planning, situational awareness and decision support capabilities for pandemic management within the EU. The project will track the health, social and economic impact of a pandemic by capturing and integrating pandemic-relevant data from international, laboratory and social media systems which will be available on an online dashboard to support decision-making. The system will be tested in various demonstrations in Member States.
Objective
PANDEM-2 implements and demonstrates the most important novel concepts and IT systems to improve the capacity of European pandemic planning and response. Following the PANDEM project (with the same coordinator and many shared partners) and extensive subsequent stakeholder engagement, research and prioritisation, PANDEM-2 meets the real-world needs of public health agencies responsible for pandemics (‘pandemic managers’) and first responders across Europe.
PANDEM-2 will enable and demonstrate the capture and integration of pandemic-relevant data from international systems (Go.Data outputs, EWRS, TESSy, etc.), participative surveillance (Influenzanet, Studybugs, etc.), fron laboratory (next generation sequencing) systems and from social media (Twitter, Reddit). This data will be accessible and can be analysed via an online dashboard, designed and built to support the specific needs of pandemic managers. Additional high-priority tools for pandemic spread prediction, visual analytics and resources management, including workforce capacity mapping, will improve preparedness and planning, and enable pandemic managers to be as well positioned as possible for a pandemic when it comes.
In order to test the system, while also networking and building relationships across borders and organisations, pandemic managers and first responders from multiple Member States will work together in EU-wise demonstrations, planning and responding to several pandemic scenarios, from Ebola to SARS/MERS CoV, to pandemic influenza.
Pandemic communications, highlighted as a key capability gap, will be addressed by resource creation, training and evaluation.
Fields of science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusesebola
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusesinfluenza
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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80686 Munchen
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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A94 K542 Blackrock
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171 82 Solna
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3721 MA Bilthoven
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A96 PR60 Dublin
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00271 Helsinki
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050463 Bucuresti
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13353 Berlin
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6525 XZ Nijmegen
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040406 Bucuresti
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1041 Wien
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75011 Paris
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SM1 4JQ Sutton Surrey
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1000 013 Lisbon
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SW1X 7QA London
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Dundalk Louth
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10126 Torino
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00151 Roma
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1649-016 Lisboa
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1049-062 Lisboa
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6525 GA Nijmegen
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