Houareau Claudia, Spieker Clara, Grote Ulrike, Perseke Knut, An der Heiden Maria, Caglar Robert, Wolter Amrei, Connolly Máire A, Hayes Jessica S, Stein Mart, Kaluza Benjamin, Overmeyer Maike, Rexroth Ute
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
School of Health Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2025 Jan 14;19:e14. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2024.298.
In the course of the EU funded Pandemic Preparedness and Response (PANDEM-2) project, a functional exercise (FX) was conducted to train the coordinated response to a large-scale pandemic event in Europe by using new IT solutions developed by the project. This report provides an overview of the steps involved in planning, conducting, and evaluating the FX.
The FX design was based on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) simulation exercise cycle for public health settings and was carried out over 2 days in the German and Dutch national public health institutes (PHI), with support from other consortium PHIs. The planning team devised an inject list based on a scenario script describing the emergence of an influenza pandemic from a novel H5N1 pathogen.
The multi-disciplinary participant teams included 11 Dutch and 6 German participants. The FX was supported by 9 international project partners from 8 countries. Overall, participants and observers agreed that the FX goals were achieved.
The FX was a suitable format to test the PANDEM-2 solutions in 2 different country set-ups. It demonstrated the benefit of regular simulation exercises at member state level to test and practice public health emergency responses to be better prepared for real-life events.
在欧盟资助的大流行防范与应对（PANDEM - 2）项目过程中，开展了一次功能演练（FX），以通过使用该项目开发的新信息技术解决方案来培训对欧洲大规模大流行事件的协调应对。本报告概述了规划、开展和评估此次功能演练所涉及的步骤。
此次功能演练的设计基于欧洲疾病预防控制中心（ECDC）针对公共卫生环境的模拟演练周期，在德国和荷兰的国家公共卫生机构（PHI）中进行了为期2天的演练，并得到了其他联盟公共卫生机构的支持。规划团队根据一个描述新型H5N1病原体引发流感大流行的情景脚本设计了一个注入列表。
多学科参与团队包括11名荷兰参与者和6名德国参与者。此次功能演练得到了来自8个国家的9个国际项目合作伙伴的支持。总体而言，参与者和观察员一致认为实现了功能演练的目标。
此次功能演练是在两种不同国家设置中测试PANDEM - 2解决方案的合适形式。它展示了在成员国层面定期进行模拟演练对于测试和实践公共卫生应急响应以更好地应对实际事件的益处。
