




Within PHIRI, the Population Health Information Research Infrastructure, a Rapid Exchange Forum (REF) on COVID-19 developments is organized every two weeks. In this one hour meeting, the participants belonging to European public health institutes, Ministries of Health, research institutions and universities as well as EU-level stakeholders answer questions and discuss experiences from their own countries related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each meeting is organized around a topic or set of topics of timely relevance to the participating countries, and answers to the questions are shared during the meeting as well as in writing immediately before or after the meetings. This allows a rapid exchange of information across countries to learn from each other’s challenges and best practices, and compare e.g. vaccination-, testing-, and communication strategies, reaction to new variants, mortality indicators, long-term pandemic monitoring and surveillance, and beginning impact evaluations of the pandemic. The answers to questions discussed during the REF meetings are uploaded to the Health Information Portal at the latest by the end of the week in which each meeting takes place.
Topic | Question | Date | Document(s) |
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40th Rapid Exchange Forum: Healthcare workforce conditions | Healthcare workforce conditions before and since the pandemic In your country, what were
If possible, please provide separate answers for both:
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01-Aug-2022 | |
39th Rapid Exchange Forum: Comparing Summer 2020/21 to 2022 | Comparing the European COVID-19 situation at the beginning of Summer 2020 and 2021 with Summer 2022
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18-Jul-2022 | |
38th Rapid Exchange Forum: Protecting vulnerable groups | Protecting vulnerable groups
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04-Jul-2022 | |
37th Rapid Exchange Forum: National public vaccination plans | National public vaccination plans
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20-Jun-2022 | |
35th Rapid Exchange Forum: COVID-19 mortality | COVID-19 mortality
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09-May-2022 | |
34th Rapid Exchange Forum: Communication Stratgegies | Communication strategies
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25-Apr-2022 | |
33rd Rapid Exchange Forum: COVID-19 pandemic evaluation | COVID-19 pandemic evaluation
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11-Apr-2022 | |
32nd Rapid Exchange Forum: Strategies for winter 2022 and BA.2 subvariant | Strategies for winter 2022 and BA.2
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28-Mar-2022 | |
31st Rapid Exchange Forum: Health screening for refugees from Ukraine | Health screening for refugees from Ukraine
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14-Mar-2022 | |
30th Rapid Exchange Forum: Long-term surveillance strategies | Long-term pandemic monitoring and surveillance
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28-Feb-2022 |