Nina Gobat describes PREPARE’s work program in which they used social and behavioral sciences to assess ethical, administrative, regulatory and logistic (EARL) barriers to the rapid implementation of pandemic-relevant clinical research in Europe. The team worked alongside PREPARE clinical studies, currently delivered across community care and hospital networks,... read more

Registration is now open for the course on "Acute respiratory pandemics: How to plan for and manage", organised by PREPARE/ISARIC/ERS/ECDC. 9 - 11 Nov. 2017, Amsterdam  Registration: Euro 50 Bursaries and travel grants available. For further details on the course and to register: www.ersnet.org/professional-development/courses/acute-respiratory-pandemics

PREPARE had a successful General Assembly meeting in Lisbon on 4th May 2017 with mini-symposia of the clinical studies and an EARL interactive workshop. Presentations from the meeting can be found in the PREPARE member area after logging in.

A good start to season two of the Mermaids arbovirus study, with the first patient recruited on 1 May by the team at the Clinical hospital centre, Rijeka, Croatia.  Season two runs from 1 May - 31 October, with >20 PREPARE collaborator sites across seven countries in southeast Europe - Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Greece, Serbia and Romania -taking p... read more

The presentations from the PREPARE Arbovirus workshop in Zagreb 29-31 March 2017 are now available on the Virtual Learning Centre. http://prepare.ersnet.org/courses-events/prepareing-for-(re-)emerging-arbovirus-infections-in-europe,-zagreb-2017.aspx 

Interactive Arbovirus workshop, ECCMID, Vienna, on Saturday 22 April, 11am - 1pm, Hall K. Delivered by C. Reusken, I. Eckerle and N. Beeching from PREPARE and ESGITM   Please join us if you are attending ECCMID and post questions in advance to the presenters: http://www.eccmidlive.org/#!contentsessions/22162

PREPARE organized another successfull and ARBO workshop in Zagreb last week. 

A Dutch traveller returning from Suriname in early March 2017, presented with fever and severe acute liver injury. Yellow fever was diagnosed by (q)RT-PCR and sequencing. During hospital stay, the patient’s condition deteriorated and she developed hepatic encephalopathy requiring transfer to the intensive care. Although yellow fever has not been reported in the ... read more

Vacancy for Research Fellow at University College Dublin for the PREPARE project. More information

On 12th of January 2017 CAP Jaume 1 in Catalonia included patient n° 100 in the ALICE4E trial! Congratulations to Ana, Carl and their fabulous, young, energetic team.  Influenza intensity has increased to high levels in various countries, and with the start of the Belgian, Polish, Hungarian and UK teams we aim for a further raise in inclusion in the next we... read more