Public Health Emergencies

World Health Organization and Pandemic Agreement

WHO's Role in Changing World: Why it still matters. Download here.

ASPHER Statement on the Adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement. Download here.

ASPHER Statement on the United States Decision to Withdraw from the World Health Organization. Download here.

The Pandemic Agreement: A Springboard for Urgent Progress or a Safety Net for Basic Commitments? Download here.

COVID-19 Lessons Learned

Could the continuing Mpox epidemic threat in Africa lead to the next pandemic if urgent global action is not sustained? Download here.

Learning about the European Burden of Disease from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Joint ASPHER/burden-eu Statement of shared understandings and on future directions for Burden of Disease strategies Download here.

The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Public Health Teacher - the lessons we must learn. December 2023 Download here.

ASPHER pandemic health inequalities series –Examining the COVID-19 pandemic’s unequal Burden of Disease Dowload here.

COVID 19 Task Force Initatives

ASPHER Statement: Planning for Winter 2022-23

ASPHER Statement: Facing the Fourth Winter of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Opinion: Monkeypox: Did we learn the lesson from COVID-19?

Updating Core Competencies in Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (UCCAIDE): Technical Report and Self Assessment Tool

Two Years of COVID-19: ASPHER statement marking two years of the COVID-19 pandemic

Thank You to the Public Health Community: ASPHER and EUPHA thank the public health community

ASPHER COVID-19 Statement: ASPHER statement on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak emergency.

Invest in primary health care and public health for the pandemic and beyond: ASPHER Statement

ASPHER Public Health Erosion Statement: The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) Statement on the Erosion of Public Health Systems

The Role of European Schools and University Departments of Public Health in the 2020 COVID-19 Response: ASPHER Survey Report

COVID-19 Situation Reporting across Europe

Country Situation Reporting archives

COVID-19 Pandemic Waves

‘COVID-DO-IT-ALL’ We need Integrated Protection Systems and Strategies Against Omicron and other COVID-19 variants. ASPHER Statement

COVID-19 Pandemic Waves Surveillance in another Severe Winter of 2021: A basic guide to understand epidemic contexts, interpret pandemic waves and trends, ahead of the curve. ASPHER Report

How can European Schools of Public Health promote understanding, explaining and teaching about pandemic waves? ASPHER Statement

Déjà vu? Planning for the Covid-19 third wave and planning for the winter. ASPHER Statement

COVID-19 is at a Crossroads in Europe in Summer 2021: Risks of the Third Wave and the need to anticipate scenarios considering pitfalls. ASPHER Report

Planning for Winter Report: Planning for a second wave pandemic of COVID-19 and planning for winter

COVID-19 Lockdown Illnesses Report: What are the COVID-19 Lockdown-induced illnesses and why should European public health systems be investigating their epidemiology, treatment, and prevention?

COVID-19 Herd Immunity Report: Getting Through the Pandemic in Europe in the Winter of 2020/21 The Misuse of COVID-19 Herd Immunity Argument

Vitamin D and COVID-19 Report: Vitamin D for Preventive and Adjunct Therapy for Mitigation of Early Stages of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome due to COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)

De-escalation planning/regulations in aftermath: webplatform on the state of the emergence from lockdown and recovery

COVID-19 lockdown rules in selected European countries (30.12.2020) (including meeting indoors, meeting outdoors, pubs and bars, restaurants, entertainment, close contact retail, non-essential shops, universities, schools, public services, work places, travel in and out, wedding/funeral, places of worship, vaccination) (pdf version)

School Reopening:

Phase 2: January 2021 Rapid Response Survey Report

Phase 1: July 2020 Rapid Response Survey Report

subgroup webplatform

Inequalities and Vulnerable populations subgroup webplatform

How are inequalities in health from Long COVID being exacerbated and what are the strategic implications for more equitable support for those with enduring clinical sequelae of infection? ASPHER Statement

Addressing the long shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic’s unjust, unequal, deep, widespread and enduring impacts over the next decade. Second ASPHER Statement on the Pandemic Impacts on Health Inequalities in Disadvantaged Vulnerable Populations in the European Region

Intimate Partner Violence. The impact of COVID-19 on intimate partner violence in Europe

ASPHER Report on Homelessness and Pandemic Measures: COVID-19 and People Experiencing Homelessness: Reported Measures Implemented in the European Region during the Pandemic

ASPHER Statement on vaccination in Palestine: The Right to COVID-19 Vaccination must be extended to Palestinians

Prisons and COVID-19 Report: Prisons and COVID-19 policies: the need for collaborative and participatory health interventions

Inequalities and Vulnerable populations Statement: First Statement of the ASPHER COVID-19 Task Group on Health Inequalities and Vulnerable Populations

Inequalities and Vulnerable populations Report: Ethical and Professional Guidance for Public Health Academics and Professionals: How should we evaluate Country-level Rapid Reviews of Pandemic Impacts on Health Inequalities and Vulnerable population groups?

Inequalities Basic Terms: What is Inequality? Basic Health Inequality Concepts for Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic

ASPHER Comment on PHRI Statement: ASPHER Comment on the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) Satement of the 7 Aprl 2020 | Statement of PHRI calling on Israel to take measures to save lives

Children's Issues

ASPHER Statement: Vaccinating Children and Young People: What are the issues?

ASPHER Statement: Children and COVID-19 Closing or keep opening the schools: The consequences

ASPHER Technical Report: Children and COVID-19 Closing or keep opening the schools: The consequences

Infographic: COVID-19 School Challenges

ASPHER Statement on Children's Issues: First Statement of ASPHER on COVID-19 and its Impacts on Children During and After the Pandemic

Mask Use by Children Statement: ASPHER Statement on the Use of Masks by Children

Vaccines

ASPHER Statement: A vaccine waiver now

Full statement on the proposal for a waiver of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), and related vaccine equity issues

ASPHER Statement: Vaccinating Children and Young People: What are the issues?

The Importance of Health Communication during Emergencies: The Mix-and-Match Question. (English)

Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs about the Covid-19 Vaccine

ASPHER Statement in response to new CDC guidelines for vaccinated indivduals: ASPHER Statement on the Abolition of Mandatory Prevention Measures in the US for Fully Vaccinated Individuals

Two months after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ruling on the safety of the Astra-Zeneca Covid-19 (Vaxzevria®) vaccine, ASPHER provides an update. (English)

ASPHER welcomes European Medicines Agency judgement on the safety of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. (English) (French)

Vaccine Internationalism Statement: Towards ‘vaccine internationalism’ an ASPHER statement on the need for an equitable and coordinated global vaccination approach to effectively combat COVID-19

Vaccine Priority and Planning Statement: ASPHER statement on the need for a coordinated, professional approach to policy and planning for COVID-19 vaccination roll-out

ASPHER Statement on vaccination in Palestine: The Right to COVID-19 Vaccination must be extended to Palestinians

Vaccine nationalism will hinder our ability to effectively combat covid-19 (BMJ Opinion) January 2021: We need an equitable and coordinated global approach to Covid-19 vaccination

ASPHER COVID-19 Vaccine Statement (BMJ Opinion); November 2020: Covid-19 vaccines-where are the data?

ASPHER COVID-19 Vaccine Statement (BMJ Opinion); September 2020: Vaccines for Covid-19: reasons for hope, but first for concern

Epidemiology

Handbook on Basic Epidemiological Terms: How to Count Illness: Basic epidemiological concepts for understanding the COVID-19 epidemic

Updated 2nd Edition of How to Count Illness now available!

Spanish and Romanian Translations now available.

Masks