Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic—Unique Opportunities for Unifying, Revamping and Reshaping Epidemic Preparedness of Europe’s Public Health Systems

• Giuseppe Ippolito,
• Francesco Nicola Lauria,
• Franco Locatelli,
• Nicola Magrini,
• Chiara Montaldo,
• Raffaella Sadun,
• Markus Maeurer,
• Gino Strada,
• Francesco Vairo,
• Salvatore Curiale,
• Antoine Lafont,
• Antonino di Caro,
• Maria Rosaria Capobianchi,
• Rainer Meilicke,
• Eskild Petersen,
• Alimuddin Zumla,
• Michel Pletschette

Affiliations

Giuseppe Ippolito

Corresponding author.; National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Francesco Nicola Lauria

National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Franco Locatelli

Sapienza, University of Rome and Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Italy

Nicola Magrini

Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, Rome, Italy

Chiara Montaldo

National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Raffaella Sadun

Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA

Markus Maeurer

Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal; I Medical Clinic, University of Mainz, Germany

Gino Strada

Emergency-NGO, Milan, Italy

Francesco Vairo

National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Salvatore Curiale

National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Antoine Lafont

Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France

Antonino di Caro

National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Maria Rosaria Capobianchi

National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Rainer Meilicke

District Public Health Department, Siegburg, Germany

Eskild Petersen

Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark; European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [ESCMID] Task Force for Emerging Infections, Basel, Switzerland

Alimuddin Zumla

Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK

Michel Pletschette

Department of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Medical Center of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany