EU Commission Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA): part of a strong 🇪🇺 #HealthUnion RT ≠ endorsement.

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Registration is open for the #HERAIndustryDays2026! 📅 23-24 November 📍 Brussels Two days to exchange ideas, explore collaboration opportunities and connect with others working on health preparedness. 🔗👉 Register now: shorturl.at/Ble6S
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How can wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) help detect health threats earlier? At the @WHO global expert meeting in Geneva, Laurent Muschel, Deputy Head of DG HERA, joined international partners to discuss WES implementation and long-term sustainability.
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How can Europe scale up medical countermeasure production when a health emergency strikes? 🇪🇺 #RAMPUP brings industry and supply chain partners together to prepare for future crises.
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🤝 Want to learn more about industry's role in Europe’s health security? Join us at #HERAIndustryDays2026! 📅 23–24 November 📍 The EGG, Brussels 👇heraindustrydays.eu/
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At #CPForum2026, discussions focused on access to medical countermeasures in a crisis. Stockpiling is essential, but so is knowing what we need and where. Cooperation between health & civil protection, public & private sectors is crucial.
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Preparedness goes beyond stockpiling. Europe needs resilient supply chains, scalable production and fewer barriers to ensure that vaccines, therapeutics, masks and other items arrive in time where they are needed the most.
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Human, animal and environmental health are interconnected. On #WorldOneHealthDay, DG HERA Director-General @florikafink joined @WHO, @FAO, @UNEP and @WOAH to discuss turning the One Health approach into action.
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By tracking signals of emerging infections, monitoring pathogens in wastewater and supporting the development of medical countermeasures, DG HERA helps connect the dots between human, animal and environmental health to anticipate and respond to cross-sectoral health threats.
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EU HERA retweeted
When we face the next health emergency, we want to be ready, together with our closest partners. With Minister @melaniejoly , we’re stepping up EU-Canada cooperation on medical countermeasures. Better prepared, together. ec.europa.eu/commission/pres…
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Yesterday, DG HERA and @EU_HaDEA joined the kick-off in Madrid of the #SURVIVEVBD project! The project will develop rapid, point-of-care diagnostics for dengue, Zika, chikungunya and West Nile virus, combining innovative biosensors with AI-powered outbreak forecasting.
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"Climate change is reshaping disease risks, making preparedness more important than ever". As vector-borne diseases expand their reach in #Europe, DG HERA is strengthening #preparedness against emerging health threats. Read the full article here👇 shorturl.at/c14q4
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💉 Developing medical countermeasures takes time and investment. Through #HERAInvest, the @EU_Commission supports companies developing solutions against priority cross-border health threats.
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Join us at the #HERAIndustryDay2026 to learn more about EU support for innovation and the development of medical countermeasures. 📅 23–24 November 2026 📍The EGG, Brussels shorturl.at/Ble6S
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🇪🇺🇨🇦 Turning partnership into preparedness. The @EU_Commission and Health Emergency Readiness Canada are stepping up cooperation on medical countermeasures, from collaborating on supply chains to CBRN investments and closer R&I links, including the #BE_READY partnership.
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EU HERA retweeted
🇨🇦 The #EU & Canada are deepening cooperation on health preparedness. Today, together with @melaniejoly, we launched our first Ministerial Dialogue on medical countermeasures. We are strengthening our supply chains, #CBRN preparedness, R&D & stronger civil-military cooperation.
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⏰ One month to go until #HERAIndustryDays2026! On 23–24 November, Brussels will bring together industry, innovators and policymakers to discuss Europe’s health security and preparedness for future health emergencies. Join us in Brussels👉🔗shorturl.at/Ble6S
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🇪🇺🇮🇪 Day 2 of the HERA Board in Dublin focuses on investigational medical countermeasures. How can the EU accelerate their development and deployment during health emergencies? From research to response, closer #EU cooperation is key to strengthening #preparedness.
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🇪🇺🇮🇪 The HERA Board kicks off in Dublin! Member States, #EU agencies and the @EU_Commission discuss: 🔹 Lessons from #Ebola & #hantavirus outbreaks 🔹 Medical countermeasures & preparedness roadmaps 🔹 EU #preparedness priorities Thanks to @Ireland2026eu for hosting!
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On the margins of the HERA Board, we met with Lithuanian Vice-Minister @IgnasRubikas to discuss preparations for the next HERA Board meeting under the Lithuanian Presidency. Strengthening #EU cooperation on health preparedness. #HealthPreparedness
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Help shape EU’s #preparedness against chemical threats. We invite pharma & biotech companies, research organisations and other actors to contribute to a survey on medical countermeasures for priority chemical threats. Your input will help inform the upcoming #EU4Health 2026 call.
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Take part in the survey and share your input🔗👇 link.europa.eu/jnHTK6
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