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This perspective summarises and explains the long-term surveillance framework 2021–2027 for infectious diseases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) published in April 2023. It shows how shortcomings in the areas of public health focus, vigilance and resilience will be addressed through specific strategies in the coming years and how these strategies will lead to stronger surveillance systems for early detection and monitoring of public health threats as well as informing their effective prevention and control. A sharper public health focus is expected from a more targeted list of notifiable diseases, strictly public-health-objective-driven surveillance standards, and consequently, leaner surveillance systems. Vigilance should improve through mandatory event reporting, more automated epidemic intelligence processing and increased use of genomic surveillance. Finally, EU/EEA surveillance systems should become more resilient by modernising the underlying information technology infrastructure, expanding the influenza sentinel surveillance system to other respiratory viruses for better pandemic preparedness, and increasingly exploiting potentially more robust alternative data sources, such as electronic health records and wastewater surveillance. Continued close collaboration across EU/EEA countries will be key to ensuring the full implementation of this surveillance framework and more effective disease prevention and control.

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Focus, vigilance, resilience: towards stronger infectious disease surveillance, threat detection and response in the EU/EEA
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Phillip+Zucs&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Zucs Phillip</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Julien+Beaut%C3%A9&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Beauté Julien</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Daniel+Palm&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Palm Daniel</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Gianfranco+Spiteri&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Spiteri Gianfranco</a></span>. Focus, vigilance, resilience: towards stronger infectious disease surveillance, threat detection and response in the EU/EEA. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2024;29(34):pii=2400066. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.34.2400066" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.34.2400066</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 30 Jan 2024;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 22 May 2024 </span> </p>
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