PREPARE is an acronym for the European Union's Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics.[1] The coordinator is professor Herman Goossens of the University of Antwerp.[2] It was activated on 31 December 2019 in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and as of February 2020[update] was operating in outbreak response mode 2 (mobilisation), the second of three modes.[3]
References
edit- ^ "CORDIS | European Commission".
- ^ "Partners – PREPARE Europe". Archived from the original on 2021-06-13. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ "Home – PREPARE Europe".
External links
edit- Official website
- Gobat, Nina; Van Someren Gréve, Frank; Sigfrid, Louise; Reusken, Chantal B.; Deege, Frank; Carson, Gail; Horby, Peter; Koopmans, Marion; De Jong, Menno D.; Goossens, Herman (2018). "Preparedness for clinical research during pandemics: a perspective from the Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics (PREPARE)". The Lancet. 392: S38. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32099-3. S2CID 53721195.