General EPILABO project information

Project name

Surveillance of Infectious diseases by sentinel laboratories

Project abbreviation

EPILABO

Project code

HDBP0037

Primary organization that oversees implementation of project

• Sciensano

Partner organization participating in project

Organization that commissioned this project

• Sciensano

Organization providing monetary or material support

• Vlaamse Gewest (Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid(externe link)), het Waalse Gewest (l’Agence pour une Vie de Qualité(externe link) – AViQ), de Duitstalige Gemeenschap (Ostbelgien(externe link)), het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (de Gemeenschappelijke Gemeenschapscommissie(externe link)), het Rijksinstituut voor ziekte- en invaliditeitsverzekering (INAMI-RIZIV(externe link)), de Federale Overheidsdienst Volksgezondheid(externe link) en de EU.

Brief project description

• The department Epidemiology of infectious diseases of Sciensano coordinates the national surveillance of infectious diseases from 1983 onwards by a network of microbiological laboratories, further called sentinel laboratories. Those laboratories are distributed evenly in Belgium and they notify and transfer voluntarily the data for well-defined pathogens. Most important tasks of the network are the surveillance of epidemiological trends and the warning of outbreaks.

Regulatory framework of this project

Consult the regulatory framework information published on the fair.healthdata.be pages.

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