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Dr. Virginia Estevez, Senior Expert GIS Florence, 25th June 2013

Geospatial Information for Disease Prevention and Control INSPIRE Conference 2013

ECDC overview The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), is the European Union agency with the responsibility of strengthening EU defences against infectious diseases. ECDC's mission: To identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health posed by infectious diseases. To support and help to coordinate EU countries’ preparedness and response capacities.

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INSPIRE Conference 2013 Geospatial Information for Disease Prevention and Control

Outbreak assessment Field epidemiology

Responses

Middle term assessments Monitoring

trends

Early warning functions

Health threats Preparedness

Environmental /socio-economic data

Inputs scientific network Multidisciplinary approach

Epidemic Intelligence

Surveillance Scientific Advice / Disease Specific Programs

Response

GIS (Core Function at ECDC)



Source: http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/0905_TER_Development_of_Aedes_Albopictus_Risk_Maps.pdf

Enterprise GIS

This GIS solution did not allow to get access to timely, accurate & guaranteed

geospatial information.

ECDC had a GIS departmental structure that served the needs of the

particular sections/teams, instead of the entire organization as an entity;

GIS infrastructure at ECDC


ECDC Mapping & Multilayer Analysis (EMMA)

Started in May 2011; Took over the recommendations included in the GIS Needs Assessment report (June 2010); Was planned as a centralized GIS platform to support disease mapping, data analysis & data sharing among ECDC experts & to extranet public, which will facilitate the communication on public health threats;

This system will contribute to the compilation of standardized spatial data;

Its implementation will be supported by the establishment of internal SOPs.


ECDC Mapping & Multilayer Analysis (EMMA) System Architecture

Front end

Back end

GO MAPPING!

Business applications Desktop Applications

Web Services

Maps

Geocodification

Geodata

…

ArcGIS Server

Geospatial data


SharePoint 2010

ArcGIS for SharePoint

ArcGIS Server

ArcSDE +

Microsoft SQL Server

EMMA Technology


E3 Geoportal

INSPIRE compliant

for metadata


Search & discovery

of resources;

Retrieval & visualization

of results;

Previsualization datasets

Metadata visualization;

Creation & upload of

metadata;

Identity of the project;

Data download;

User registration.

Source: http://geoportal.ecdc.europa.eu/

ECDC and Inspire regulation

• Metadata: In process of implementation

Just E3 Geoportal is INSPIRE compliant for metadata

Pending:

• Data Specification

• Network Services

• Data Services & Sharing

• Monitoring and reporting

Data available: Human health and safety Health Data (disease) Health Determinants (environmental)


Open questions

• On which aspects organizations such as ECDC must be fully compliant with INSPIRE directive?

• In which situations we need to comply with INSPIRE directive?, only for public available data? • Is there any kind of external assessment for the implementation of INSPIRE directive?


Dr. Virginia Estevez +46 858 601 352 [email protected] [email protected]


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