Category Research project
  • Mikrobiologie

One health structure for signalling and risk-assessment of emerging threats across Europe

Project status
Completed
Project start
Jan 2018
Project end
Dec 2021
Acronym
EJP COHESIVE
Department
Biologische Sicherheit
Website
https://onehealthejp.eu/projects/integrative/jip-cohesive

Description and Objective

The aims of COHESIVE project were to develop sustainable One Health approaches with respect to surveillance, signalling, assessing and controlling zoonoses at the national and regional level within EU countries and across borders.

Result

Project outcomes were:
A website with guidelines for setting up a One Health Risk Analysis System (OHRAS) for signalling, assessing and controlling zoonoses and its implementation in European countries (shown in the images at the bottom of this page). The OHRAS has been used by the following countries: Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and France.Four IT tools to support outbreaks and risk-based surveillance: The COHESIVE Decision Support Tool for One-Health Risk Assessment provides a broad introduction to the field of risk assessment. It classifies different risk assessment approaches against criteria such as timescale, geographical location or level of expertise. It also provides One Health and sector-specific examples of these approaches for further research. The COHESIVE Information System (CIS) is database and web-based interface designed to help integrate pathogen information from medical and veterinary sectors, beneficial for outbreak investigation and surveillance. FoodChain-Lab web application (FCL Web) enables the reliable tracing of a specific food product along the food supply chain during a foodborne disease incident. Shiny Rrisk is a web-based tool for risk assessment using Monte-Carlo Simulation and helps to build quantitative risk models via a user-friendly shiny surface including uncertainty analysis. Overall, specific COHESIVE resources can be used to facilitate international coordination, improve the efficiency of One Health risk analyses and benefit pandemic disease preparedness.
Type of project

Third-party funded project

Research focus

Gesundheit von Mensch, Tier und Umwelt (One Health)

Organisational units and partners

Lead specialist group: Epidemiologie, Zoonosen und Antibiotikaresistenz (43)
Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Matthias Greiner, Dr. Armin Weiser, Dr. Marion Gottschald
Involved BfR partners: Exposition
External partner: National Institute For Public Health and The Environment, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research

Funding body and grant number

Europäische Union
Grant agreement 773830

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