Joint Action on Vaccination (2018-2022)

The EU Joint Action on Vaccination ran between September 2018 and March 2022 with an aim to strengthen the cooperation between European countries to fight vaccine-preventable diseases. Its objective was to deliver and share concrete tools for stronger national responses to vaccination challenges such as vaccine hesitancy.

The joint action involved 20 European countries, the European Commission and several other stakeholders such as the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME). It was coordinated by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm). The work was structured in eight work packages:

• WP1: Coordination

• WP2: Dissemination

• WP3: Evaluation

• WP4: Integration in National Policies and Sustainability

• WP5: Immunisation Information Services to Strengthen Surveillance of Vaccine Coverage

• WP6: Vaccine Supply and Preparedness

• WP7: Vaccine Research and Development Priority-Setting Framework

• WP8: Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake

CPME was a member of the stakeholder forum of the joint action.