WP 8 aims to establish a sustainable infrastructure to support rapid exchange between actors from competent authorities, their advisors, researchers and stakeholders in the joint efforts to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. The emphasis is to collect and disseminate existing information and generate new (evidence-based) information as needed. The WP represents a central contact point for the partners and it provides evidence-based policy support with the specific objectives:
This task - includes a needs assessment for evidence-based policy support among health policy makers to identify the gaps between research and policy. The needs assessment is conducted via a survey that will be repeated on an irregular basis. Questions and responses will be continuously evaluated and potentially adapted. The aim of this task is to identify COVID-19 current and future priority topics, best practices and lessons learned from evidence-based policy support during the COVID-19 pandemic to help researchers to better respond to health policy makers’ needs in future pandemics.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health policy decision makers, their advisors and researchers are in urgent need to obtain evidence-based information on a variety of topics that serve as a basis for health policy decision making. This task organizes virtual, bi-weekly meetings in which the participants discuss specific pre-selected topics and ad-hoc questions as well as they share information from the experiences in their own countries.
Rapid Exchange Forum - One Pager
Rapid Exchange Forum - All questions 03.06.2022
Rapid Exchange Forum - Special Edition
Rapid Exchange Forum - Special Edition - One Pager
The specific objective of Task 8.3 is to establish a network of experts and expertise that can easily be approached for the purpose of information exchange and review of evidence-based policy support information, e.g. in an open forum. Further, the expert network complements existing expertise of project partners.
Task 8.4 started with a mapping exercise of sources of population health information on COVID-19 to provide relevant population health guidelines, standards, and reports with the aid of web scraping. Building on the mapping, this task will create a catalogue of existing international initiatives and projects on COVID-19 related diagnosis, treatments, interventions and measures (except policy measures) conducted in EU/EEA Countries.
The basis for this task is a mapping exercise of policy and impact measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic in EU Member States by web search and interviews. The results will feed into a catalogue on the Health Information Portal (HIP) that will be regularly maintained throughout the project duration.
Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG) Ministry for Health - Government of Malta (MFH)
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