Project facts
Project manager
Main applicant
SVA
Partners
University of Thessaly (GR)
coordinator
IRTA (SP)
IZSAM (IT)
Financier
EFSA
Start/end
2018 - 2019

HOTLINE: Harmonisation of transmissible disease interpretation in EU
The overarching purpose of HOTLINE, coordinated by the University of Thessaly, Greece, is to make disease information comparable and interpretable, and to facilitate for risk assessors, risk managers and policy makers to communicate such information in a harmonised way, from estimates of true prevalence to narrative descriptions of risk-based surveillance and its output.
SVA's role in HOTLINE is to develop reporting guidelines for animal health surveillance communication to facilitate consistent and transparent reporting of surveillance activities and their outcomes. Draft guidelines for
harmonised reporting of surveillance outcomes have been collaboratively developed,
in-kind, within the previous ANIHWA project SANTERO http://santero.fp7-risksur.eu/.
This project will move this initiative further forward by 1) conducting a survey to get
input on the reporting items suggested so far, 2) collate examples and explanations
from openly available national reports with surveillance information and 3) hold a
consensus meeting where reporting items, checklist, examples and explanations are
consolidated. The reporting guidelines will subsequently be published and maintained
on a dedicated web page.
Last updated :
2020-01-02