ECDC charts future path for public health resilience through strategic foresight
In early 2022, ECDC launched a comprehensive strategic foresight initiative to consider and prepare for future public health challenges. This multi-method approach aimed to strengthen ECDC’s resilience and preparedness by mapping plausible future scenarios and identifying actions to meet emerging threats. ECDC has now issued a report summarising the finding of the process, including a list of actions.
Despite the wide range of future scenarios considered, several recurring challenges emerged:
Based on these findings, ECDC has outlined a set of robust, forward-looking actions designed to enhance long-term readiness:
The work summarised in this report is mainly intended for ECDC’s internal use to inform its strategic direction moving forward. Therefore, the report only summarises high-level outcomes of the detailed internal analyses, insights and considerations that arose from this foresight process. Nonetheless, the summarised output can be used by ECDC’s external partners and stakeholders for inspiration, information and action.
