International

The Commission's Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority as part of its mandate on preparedness, has signed on behalf of participating Member States, a joint procurement framework contract for the supply of up to 665,000 pre-pandemic vaccine doses of the up-to-date Zoonotic Influenza Vaccine Seqirus, as well as an option for a further 40 million doses over the duration of the contract.

The Commission adopted a Communication on the European Health Union, which highlights the strides made in EU health policy over the last four years, for the benefit of citizens in the EU and worldwide. The vision for the Union is to ensure that Member States are better prepared to respond to future health crises together.

On 25 and 26 October, HERA and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) held a Roundtable on the power of collaboration to address medical countermeasures R&D for epidemic and pandemic threats.

HERA and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) are strengthening their cooperation on medical countermeasures to step up prevention, preparedness and response to serious cross border health threats.

Laurent Muschel, the acting Head of HERA was present at the World Bio Summit 2023 in Seoul, Korea, to moderate a discussion on accelerating pandemic therapeutics development and manufacturing.

HERA was present at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2023 in Dakar, Senegal to moderate a discussion on the key role that wastewater pathogen surveillance plays in global pandemic preparedness.