Speaker session
Registration and breakfast
Introduction and welcome note
- Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
- Paulette Lenert, Minister of Health of Luxembourg
Keynote 1
Activities and expectations of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (COVI) – Kathleen Van Brempt, European Parliament COVI Chair
The new European Health Security Framework
Chair: Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)
- New regulation on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU - John F. Ryan, DG SANTE
- New regulation on a framework of measures for ensuring the supply of crisis-relevant medical countermeasures in the event of a public health emergency at Union level - Wolfgang Philipp, DG HERA
- New regulation on European Medicines Agency - Emer Cooke, EMA
- New regulation on European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Andrea Ammon, ECDC
Panel 1:
- Rui Portugal, Ministry of Health of Portugal
- Vesna Kerstin Petrič, Ministry of Health, Slovenia
- Jérôme Salomon, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, France
- Sara Byfors, Public Health Agency of Sweden
Q&A
Coffee break
Keynotes 2
- Interlinkages between the EU Health Security Framework and the International Health Regulations – Francisco Pérez-Cañado, DG SANTE
- The Global Pandemic Treaty and the revisions of the International Health Regulations – Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe
Lunch
Keynote 3
First lessons from government evaluations of COVID-19 responses: A synthesis – Francesca Colombo, Head of the Health Division, OECD
Keynote 4
How the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped global collaboration in health – example of the G7 - Christophe Bayer, Head of Division Health Security, International Crisis Management, Ministry of Health, Germany
Coffee Break
Panel 2: Experiences on preparedness, response, capacity and lessons learned in the context of national public health
Chair: Andrea Ammon, Director, European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC)
- Surveillance – Thomas Dentzer, Ministry of Health of Luxembourg
- Modelling and forecasting - Tyra Grove Krause, Statens Serum Institute, Denmark
- One Health Approach – Flavia Riccardo, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
Q&A
Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)
Wrapping up & closing by Sandra Gallina, Director General of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)
Debrief of Day 1
Interactive word-cloud via Slido: What are the top priorities in the post-pandemic period?
Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19
Panel 3: Responding to COVID-19
Chair: Elizabeth Adams – President European Federation of Nurses Associations
- Front-line physician – Thérèse Staub, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg [TBC]
- Front-line nurse – Olivier Babel, Community Nurse, France
- Long-term care facility – Alenka Oven, Institute for Long-term Care, Slovenia
- Patients – Marco Greco, European Patients Forum
Q&A
Coffee Break
Pitches : Impact of COVID-19
- Long covid-19 – Paul Wilmes, University of Luxembourg
- Impact on health inequalities – Guiseppe Costa, Turin University Medical School and the San Luigi Hospital Epidemiology Unit
- Impact on mental health – Claudia Marinetti, Mental Health Europe
- Impact on reduced access to healthcare services – the case of cancer screening – Mike Morrissey, European Cancer Organisation
- Digital tools in a pandemic: use of contact tracing apps, digital certificates – Olivier Jankovec, European Region of the Airports Council International (ACI EUROPE)
Lunch
Panel 4: Risk communication and disinformation
Experience on the EU level – Anne Calteux, European Commission Representation Office in Luxembourg
Experiences of three Member States
- Tom Rausch and Laura Valli, Ministry of Health, Luxembourg
- Sergio Iavicoli, Ministry of Health, Italy
- Eva Lehtla, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia
Q&A
Panel 5: Remaining vigilant and the future-looking perspective
Chair: Richard Pebody – WHO Euro Team Leader for Infection Hazard Management
- Vaccination – Hanna Nohynek, National Institute for Health and Welfare, NITAG, Finland
- Using behavioural sciences in addressing COVID-19 pandemic - Mariken Leurs, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
- Sentinel surveillance and continued testing – Bruno Ciancio, European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC)
- Research and Innovation on the EU level – Irene Norstedt, Director of People Directorate, DG Research and Innovation
Q&A
Results of the word cloud and remerciements
Take-home messages, commitments and actions
John Ryan, Acting Deputy Director General Health and Director Public health at the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE)