Contributing to health security in Europe since 2005 - ECDC's 15th anniversary.

Ammon expresses insights on the contributions of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) to the health security in Europe since 2005 Today, on its 15-year anniversary, a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 and the associated coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is dominating the day-to-day work of the Centre and of health services around the globe The Centre has grown into a mature organization and it became firmly established as a reliable and trusted partner of the European Union (EU) Institutions, the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) countries and internationally operating organizations in the field of communicable disease prevention and control, such as the World Health Organization (WHO)