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"The pandemic has shown that the remit of the ECDC expands quite a bit beyond the gathering of relevant data and the coordinating and communication of responses to that data." (Photo: ©ECDC 2020)

ECDC chief Andrea Ammon: 'It's not just about slogans'

European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) chief Andrea Ammon spoke candidly about how her organisation is preparing itself to help the EU be prepared for the next pandemic.

Ammon has been heading up the ECDC since 2017. Trained as a medical doctor, and specialised in public health, she is an alumni of the first cohort of the field epidemiology programme (EPIET) offered by the ECDC. She joined the organisation in 2005, building the European surveillance system, and slowly making her way...

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Alejandro Tauber is Publisher of EUobserver. He is Ecuadorian, German, and American, but lives in Amsterdam. His background is in tech and science reporting, and was previously editor at VICE's Motherboard and publisher of TNW.

"The pandemic has shown that the remit of the ECDC expands quite a bit beyond the gathering of relevant data and the coordinating and communication of responses to that data." (Photo: ©ECDC 2020)

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Alejandro Tauber is Publisher of EUobserver. He is Ecuadorian, German, and American, but lives in Amsterdam. His background is in tech and science reporting, and was previously editor at VICE's Motherboard and publisher of TNW.

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