Special Committee for Surveillance and Applied Research meeting
23/02/2023 -
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations HQ,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations HQ,
The meeting will be held in hybrid format: online and at FAO Headquarters.
The draft agenda would include
- Prioritization of FAST threatening Europe;
- Improve passive surveillance and early warning;
- Preparedness of laboratories in Europe;
- How to improve bio-threat research networks.
The meeting objective is to provide a forum for the SCSAR committee to discuss and provide guidance to the Commission in the following areas:
- Diagnostic capacity to respond to crisisand mechanisms for scaling up resources;
- Implementation of integrated surveillance in high risk locationsof Member nations and neighbourhood;
- FAST Applied research results and research networks;
- Enhanced confidence in risk information and risk monitoring tools;
- FAST prioritization according to risk.
More on the Committee: here