International collaboration

The Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit collaborates with European communicable disease networks on surveillance and control as follows:

• WHO Surveillance Programme for Control of Foodborne Infections and Intoxications in Europe
• Global Eradication of Poliomyelitis
• Measles Surveillance in European Region
• CCEE Baltics Network - Measles
• Inventory of Resources for Infectious Diseases in Europe (IRIDE)
• CCASHH - European Project on food and water borne disease (data from 1997 - present)
• EWGLI - European Working Group for Legionella Infections
• EuroHIV- European Center for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS
• EuroTB - Surveillance of Tuberculosis in Europe
• EU IBIS - Invasive Bacteria Surveillance
• EUVAC-Net - European Union Vaccine Preventable Diseases Project
• EISS - European Influwenza Surveillance Scheme
• ENTERNET - (Salmonella, Campylobacter, E.Coli)
• LISTERNET – Listeria surveillance
• EU HEPATITIS A SURVEILLANCE NETWORK - Surveillance of Hepatitis A
• EPIET – European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training

Information on surveillance, reported cases and outbreaks and control is shared amongst these networks.