Health Resilience in the Eastern Partnership: Enhancing preparedness and collaboration to address major public health threats.

This is a three-year initiative (2025-2027) entitled “Health Resilience in the Eastern Partnership”. The public health preparedness and response scope addressed under this initiativeis implemented by ECDC, while the WHO Regional Office for Europe is carrying out its mental health and health workforce dimensions. Altogether, it aims to contribute to strengthening three structural pillars of health systems in the EU Eastern Partnership countries.

Throughout this initiative, ECDC is providing its expertise to partner countries to support their preparedness for, and response to, serious public health threats and crises. A key objective is to assess, in collaboration with the countries themselves, specific aspects of national health systems through in-person workshops, simulation exercises, regional training sessions, online webinars, peer exchanges, and bilateral activities. These assessments will inform capacity-building based on the conclusions drawn. Health system resilience and preparedness will be further strengthened by enhancing, within a community of professionals nominated by their national authorities, the collaboration and knowledge on regional risks, challenges and solutions.

Principal Objective: To strengthen the health resilience of Eastern Partnership countries to major cross-border health threats.

Specific Objective 1:
To test health systems and build capacity of Eastern Partnership countries to respond effectively to major cross-border health threats.

Specific Objective 2:
To enhance interconnectedness among Eastern Partnership countries and to increase awareness and knowledge of regional risks, gaps, challenges and solutions for health resilience and preparedness.

1. Regional simulation exercises;
2. Thematic webinars for the established community of practice;
3. Capacity-building workshops;
4. Establishment of a regional community of practice for experts, stakeholders, policy-advisors, etc. involved in health system’s resilience matters;
5. Development and dissemination of an EaP public health preparedness compendium.