Within PHIRI, the Population Health Information Research Infrastructure, a Rapid Exchange Forum (REF) is organized regularly every two weeks or as needed, addressing urgent questions and current developments in population health during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. 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 and other population health issues that require rapid responses. 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, reactions to new virus variants, mortality indicators, long-term pandemic monitoring and surveillance, and 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.
Please use the search function below to browse the content of previous REF meetings. In order to search for an exact phrase, you can utilize quotation marks around your search term.
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55th Rapid Exchange Forum: New Covid-19 variants | New Covid-19 variants
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11-Sep-2023 | |
54th Rapid Exchange Forum: Biosimilar medicines | Biosimilar medicines
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03-Jul-2023 | |
Rapid Exchange Forum ad-hoc question (Ireland): National reviews/inquiries of the Covid-19 response | National Reviews/Inquiries of the COVID-19 Response
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16-Jun-2023 | |
53rd Rapid Exchange Forum: National action plan on postviral / postinfectious syndromes | National action plan on postviral / postinfectious syndromes Does your country have a national action plan or similar strategic policy papers regarding postviral / postinfectious syndromes (in general or associated with specific pathogens, e.g. Long COVID)? We are interested in documents that cover aspects such as care pathways, healthcare planning and financing, data collection and registries, research, awareness raising and others. Please provide links to the relevant documents or websites? |
05-Jun-2023 | |
52nd Rapid Exchange Forum Special EUPHW Edition: Covid-29 impact on population's mental health | Covid-19 impact on population´s mental health
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22-May-2023 | |
Rapid Exchange Forum ad-hoc question (Belgium): Covid-19 management tool | Covid-19 management tool Did your country used, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a specific tool to determine the level of severity of the pandemic, at national level (e.g., level 1, level 2, level3)? If yes,
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10-May-2023 | |
51st Rapid Exchange Forum: Health crisis procedures and exercises | Health crisis procedures and exercises
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08-May-2023 | |
50th Rapid Exchange Forum: Treatment of long Covid patients | Treatment of long Covid patients In order to keep up with this topic, we would kindly ask for a follow-up to REF 14 (07/06/21):
If so, please provide details, such as: - Which professional groups (specialists, nurses, psychologists, …) and disciplines are involved? - How can individuals access the clinics (walk-in, referral …)? - Are the clinics stand-alone entities or part of larger institutions such as hospitals or primary care centres?
If so, please provide details, such as: - Is there a publicly funded facility for parents to obtain publicly funded long Covid consultations with specialised physicians? - Have any day care centres been set up for children affected by long Covid?
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24-Apr-2023 | |
49th Rapid Exchange Forum: Vision on resilience indicators | Vision on resilience indicators
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27-Mar-2023 | |
48th Rapid Exchange Forum: Analysis of telemedicine and/or artificial intelligence | Analysis of telemedicine and/or artificial intelligence Is there an analysis of the use of telemedicine and/or artificial intelligence in your countries' inpatient sector (published or ongoing)?? If yes,
If no, are there plans to carry out such a study? Has there been an increase in the use or implementation of telemedicine and/or articifals intellegence since the beginning of the pandemic? If yes, please give examples. |
27-Feb-2023 |