Elizabeth Adams

President

Dublin | Ireland

Biography

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Organisation

European Federation of Nurses Associations

International organisation

Speaker session

22 November

10:00 - 11:30

The new European Health Security Framework

Closed

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

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

John F. Ryan

Deputy General Director, DG Health and Food Security

Wolfgang Philipp

Acting Deputy Head in DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority

Emer Cooke

Executive Director

Andrea Ammon

Director

Rui Portugal

Deputy Director General

Vesna Kerstin Petrič

Director general

Jérôme Salomon

General Director for Health

Sara Byfors

Head of Department

15:30 - 16:30

Panel 2: Experiences on preparedness, response, capacity and lessons learned in the context of national public health

Closed

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

Andrea Ammon

Director

Thomas Dentzer

Chief Strategy Officer

Tyra Grove Krause

Executive Vice President

Flavia Riccardo

Senior Researcher

Andrea Ammon

Director

Solna | Sweden

Biography

Dr Andrea Ammon, MD, MPH, was appointed Director of ECDC in June 2017. From April 2011 to April 2015, Andrea Ammon was Deputy to the Director and Head of Unit for Resource Management and Coordination. From May 2015, she was ECDC's Acting Director. Andrea joined ECDC as the Head of the Surveillance Unit in 2005. The unit was responsible for developing The European Surveillance System (TESSy), implementing a long-term surveillance strategy for the European Union (EU), evaluating the Dedicated Surveillance Networks (DSN), performing step-by-step transfer of DSN activities to ECDC, revising the EU case definitions and producing an Annual Epidemiological Report on infectious diseases in the EU. Prior to joining the ECDC, Dr Ammon served in several roles at the Robert Koch-Institute, in Berlin, Germany, most recently as Head of Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. In this capacity, she maintained and further developed the German national surveillance system; coordinated the national outbreak response team for current and emerging infections; coordinated emergency planning for influenza; directed the national Field Epidemiology Training Programme; coordinated epidemiological research programmes in infectious diseases and provided scientific advice for government Ministries, Members of Parliament, and the public.

Organisation

ECDC

EU Institutions

Speaker session

22 November

10:00 - 11:30

The new European Health Security Framework

Closed

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

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

John F. Ryan

Deputy General Director, DG Health and Food Security

Wolfgang Philipp

Acting Deputy Head in DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority

Emer Cooke

Executive Director

Andrea Ammon

Director

Rui Portugal

Deputy Director General

Vesna Kerstin Petrič

Director general

Jérôme Salomon

General Director for Health

Sara Byfors

Head of Department

15:30 - 16:30

Panel 2: Experiences on preparedness, response, capacity and lessons learned in the context of national public health

Closed

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

Andrea Ammon

Director

Thomas Dentzer

Chief Strategy Officer

Tyra Grove Krause

Executive Vice President

Flavia Riccardo

Senior Researcher

Olivier Babel

Community Nurse

NANCY | France

Biography

Community Nurse in Nancy

Organisation

BABEL OLIVIER

International organisation

Speaker session

22 November

10:00 - 11:30

The new European Health Security Framework

Closed

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

Sandra Gallina

Director General for Health and Food Safety

John F. Ryan

Deputy General Director, DG Health and Food Security

Wolfgang Philipp

Acting Deputy Head in DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority

Emer Cooke

Executive Director

Andrea Ammon

Director

Rui Portugal

Deputy Director General

Vesna Kerstin Petrič

Director general

Jérôme Salomon

General Director for Health

Sara Byfors

Head of Department

15:30 - 16:30

Panel 2: Experiences on preparedness, response, capacity and lessons learned in the context of national public health

Closed

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

Andrea Ammon

Director

Thomas Dentzer

Chief Strategy Officer

Tyra Grove Krause

Executive Vice President

Flavia Riccardo

Senior Researcher