Durable MOOC! What do you do when a health crisis strikes?      

Effective response starts long before the outbreak: with strong preparedness, effective coordination, and strong research management.

Join the DURABLE #MOOC Research Management in #Outbreak Preparedness and Response.

In this MOOC, experts from the Durable network involved in outbreak preparedness and response share practical insights on how research is organized in emergency contexts, and how coordination, regulation, ethics, logistics, technology transfer, and equity all contribute to effective and trustworthy research action.

Learn from experts directly involved in real outbreak response, short and accessible expert-led sessions. Designed for researchers, research managers, and global health professionals. 

👉 Join via: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/research-management-in-outbreaks-preparedness-and-response/

👩‍🔬 Meet the experts behind the DURABLE MOOC Research Management in Outbreak Preparedness and Response

🎯 Landscape & objectives: Dr. Rebecca Grais (Pasteur Network), Prof. Dr. Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC), Dr. Emmanuel André (KU Leuven), Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

⚖️ Research Management & Equity: Dr Garry Aslanyan (TDR World Health Organization), Dr. Kathleen Victoir (Pasteur Network), Dr. Rebecca Grais (Pasteur Network), Dr. Renaud Vatrinet (Pasteur Network)

📢 Stakeholder engagement & Trust: Dr. Raquel Martins Salviati (Centro Pasteur-Fiocruz), Dr. Roberta Freitas (Centro Pasteur-Fiocruz), Hichem Ben Hassine (Pasteur Network), Sitraka ANDRINIVO (Pasteur Network)

🧑‍⚖️ Regulatory Frameworks & Technology Transfer: Dr. Anne-Laure Morin (Institut Pasteur), Julie Allouche (Institut Pasteur), Dr. Martijn de Vlaming (Erasmus MC), Dr. Cheikh Tidiane Diagne (Institut Pasteur de Dakar)

🚚  Ethics & Logistics: Dr. Fanny Momboisse (Institut Pasteur), Dr. Marion Berard (Institut Pasteur), Guillaume Noailly (Bioport), Dr. Grégoire Davignon(Pasteur Network)

The Durable course is coordinated by the Pasteur Network in the context of the DURABLE project and it is a collaboration with Durable partners Institut Pasteur (Paris), Erasmus MC, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, KU Leuven, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Institut Pasteur de Dakar, TDR (the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases), Bioport with support from the DURABLE Project and cofunded by the European Union.

👉 Join via: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/research-management-in-outbreaks-preparedness-and-response/

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28-30 September 2026

IV DURABLE Annual Consortium Meeting

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5–7 October 2026

4th IC – CCHF International Conference

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PDPC Congress

Date: Thursday 8 October 2026

Time: 09.00 – 18.00

Location: De Doelen, Rotterdam – The Netherlands

This year’s congress will bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and other experts in the field, to discuss how we can best prepare ourselves for future pandemics and disasters.

Register here: https://convergence.nl/event/4th-edition-of-the-pandemic-disaster-preparedness-congress/

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Strengthening Europe’s Epidemic Preparedness

DURABLE (Delivering a Unified Research Alliance of Biomedical and public health Laboratories against Epidemics) is a European research consortium that builds a coordinated network of top diagnostic and public health laboratories to improve preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks and other health threats. It provides high-quality scientific data quickly to support decision-making by health authorities like HERA, including pathogen detection, analysis, and response planning. The project also focuses on sustainable capacity building, training, and rapid deployment of countermeasures to better prevent and respond to future epidemics.

Learn more about our activities: www.durableproject.org