Description du projet
Se préparer à une future pandémie
La pandémie de COVID-19 s’est soldée par un nombre dévastateur de décès et d’énormes pertes financières en raison du cumul d’une mauvaise gestion, de plans d’intervention inadaptés, d’approches limitées ou fragmentées, etc. Le risque d’être confronté à une nouvelle pandémie est trop élevé pour être ignoré, sans compter qu’il est exacerbé par le changement climatique. Le projet ESCAPE, financé par l’UE, améliorera nos plans d’intervention rapide en cas de pandémie, en utilisant des protocoles de recherche standard, des recommandations améliorées fondées sur des données probantes, des connaissances approfondies basées sur la dernière pandémie et des technologies numériques, en coordination avec les scientifiques. L’équipe du projet étudiera également les facteurs qui favorisent la mise en place de plans efficaces, qui permettront de faire face à une autre pandémie, et la création d’une communauté multipartite, qui améliorera le partage des connaissances et l’élaboration des politiques.
Objectif
Pandemics have the potential to disrupt our daily lives and to affect every part of society. SARS-CoV-2 causing COVID-19 disease painfully showed how responding too late, in a fragmented mannar and/or with too little coordination across different sectors and countries, led to huge human and economic costs. ESCAPE’s main objective is to improve efficiency and scalability of early pandemic response plans by providing evidence-based guidelines, standardised research protocols, retrospective insights, and digital solutions that will support scientists in producing and integrating evidence and inform public health authorities in taking decisions to avert or reduce disease and societal burden. The project will provide knowledge and tools that will enhance Europe’s preparedness for a pandemic of pathogen X. These include a science-based blueprint for faster and better decision-making in managing pandemics, tools and frameworks to improve data availability, collection and sharing, as well as advanced analytics and models to understand and project transmission dynamics of pathogen X under candidate response scenarios. ESCAPE will also identify determinants of success and failure in managing pathogen X based on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, helping to develop effective response strategies for future pandemics. In addition, the project will contribute to fostering a multi-stakeholder intelligent community allowing improved knowledge sharing and cooperation between policy-makers, the scientific community, the media and the public, ensuring a much more effective response to future pandemics. In the long-term, by improving pandemic preparedness and the effectiveness of response to a pandemic of pathogen X, the project will contribute to reducing health burden and potential negative societal and economic consequences during pandemics, as well as increase the confidence of policy makers and the public in science-based solutions.
Champ scientifique
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronaviruses
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsstatistics and probability
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologymodeling of diseases spread
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
3500 Hasselt
Belgique