WP 3 : Outreach, Engagement and Sustainability

PHIRI STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT - ONE PAGER

Objectives

This Work Package (WP) aims to reach and engage key research infrastructures, stakeholders at the national and international levels to ensure the sustainability of the project´s actions. More specifically, the objectives of this WP are:

• To have a comprehensive view of the developments and state of play of health information systems that monitor the wider effects of COVID-19 on population health at the national and international levels
• To create a base for interdisciplinary population health research through exchange and support at the national and international level
• To investigate routes for economic sustainability
• To support the integration of knowledge generated from PHIRI into policy

Task 3.1 Mapping the state of play through (virtual) country visits

Task 3.1 aims to map the health information systems (HIS) that monitor the effects of COVID-19 on population health. This assesses the COVID-19 health information flows in countries through virtual country visits. The virtual country visits are carried out in selected European countries that are part of the PHIRI consortium. After attending a series of workshops, assessors from several countries will perform targeted interviews with key national players that process COVID-19 population health information. The following domains are covered: resources, indicators, data sources, data management, national HIS data quality/information products, and dissemination and use.

The assessments will be performed in Austria, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal by the end of 2022. Italy was assessed by Belgium in January 2022.

More information on these COVID-19 HIS Assessments

• COVID-19 health information system assessments in eight European countries: identified gaps, best practices and recommendations - Miriam Saso et al.
• COVID-19 Health Information System Assessments - Sustainability Plan 
• COVID-19 Health Information System Assessments - One Pager
• COVID-19 Health Information System Assessments - Manual
• State-of-play of the COVID-19 Health Information System - Italy
• State-of-play of the COVID-19 Health Information System - Ireland 
• State-of-play of the COVID-19 Health Information System - Malta
• State-of-play of the COVID-19 Health Information System - Portugal
• State-of-play of the COVID-19 Health Information System - Hungary

Task 3.2 Involving relevant COVID-19 national and international stakeholders

Through Stakeholder Meetings, PHIRI brings together and involve the relevant COVID-19 national and international stakeholders including, but not limited to European research networks in the domain of population health, relevant national population data owners/curators, national population health coordination entities and European and international data collectors and registries relevant for COVID-19 and future epidemics. These meetings aim to bring together the different international COVID-19 projects, initiatives and organisations, to provide an overview of the activities carried out by these stakeholders and to delineate their relation to the activities of PHIRI. 

• First Stakeholders' Meeting - 14.01.2021
• Second Stakeholders' Meeting - 18.02.2022
• Rapid Exchange Forum - Special Edition
• PREPARE Cluster
• #PHIRI1Year Anniversary

Task 3.3: Integrate knowledge into health policies

Fostering translational research methodology is an important service of PHIRI. This task oversees and coordinates horizontally the policy activities in PHIRI to overcome siloed approaches in the different WPs. At the same time, it focuses on stimulating the integration of scientific evidence and research into the policy development process by delivering:

• One-pagers describing the research outputs provided by each WP
• Sustainability plan including the results from the country visits, the outcomes of PHIRI activities and the sustainability of the Research Infrastructure

The leader and co-leader of this work package are:
 

 Sciensano                                                                             Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, GÖG

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