First General Assembly of the PHRESH project

On 25 March 2026, the General Assembly of the PHRESH project (Public Health Rapid Epidemiological Surveillance Hub) was held in Strassen, at the premises of the Health Directorate. The meeting served as a progress review, with clear objectives: to share the status of ongoing work, clarify the next steps and strengthen collaboration between partners.

The discussions reviewed all the work packages that make up the project, both technical and cross-cutting. In the afternoon, this overview was complemented by two interactive sessions: a SWOT analysis of the project and a demonstration of the Epi+ pilot platform of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. These workshops provided a concrete setting to discuss the strengths already identified, areas for improvement and the tools to be mobilized for the next stages of the project.

This first General Assembly also helped place the ongoing work within a concrete trajectory, by reviewing progress across the different work packages:

• Project management: after the first year, implementation is broadly on schedule.
• Digitalization of surveillance: the deployment of SORMAS as a tool for case management, contact tracing and coordination of investigations is progressing, with coverage now extended to ten notifiable diseases.
• Surveillance in hospital emergency departments: two national hospitals are already implementing real-time or near real-time surveillance.
• Internal dashboards: the first tools are under development to improve data monitoring, analysis and visualisation by Health Inspection staff.
• One Health: work has progressed on several fronts, including awareness-raising among doctors, surveillance of tick-borne diseases, water-related controls and the development of the Epi+ digital exchange platform.
• Communication, capacity building and evaluation: the strategy is in place and initial activities have been launched to support the dissemination of results, stakeholder training and monitoring of the project’s impact.