Unifying and improving health monitoring in Europe and around the world

With climate change, animal and human mobility, growing populations and urbanization, there is now an increased risk of the emergence and accelerated the global spread of new pathogens. It is crucial that the emergence of a pathogen can be rapidly detected and assessed for the risk it poses to public health through all all the availble sources of data. 

The EU-funded MOOD project is taking advantage of data mining and analysis of big data to enhance the utility of event-based surveillance (EBS), utilising reports, stories, rumours and other information transmitted through formal or informal channels including blogs, hotlines and social media. Ultimately, MOOD is supporting the work of European and global public and veterinary health agencies by providing existing monitoring platforms with methodological and practical support in response to their needs.

Coordinated by CIRAD as part of the EU H2020 programme, MOOD has a budget of 14 million euros and brings together 25 partners from 12 countries including research institutions, public health agencies and veterinary services to unify and improve epidemic intelligence tools and services. This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 874850 – MOOD.