PHIRI: Contributing for the deployment of the European Health Information Portal in time of COVID-19

This poster was presented at the 2^nd Annual Summit of the Comprehensive Health Research Center in Évora, Portugal. 

Abstract

Objective: The European Public Health Information Portal (PHIRI - Horizon 2020) aims at setting-up a research infrastructure to facilitate and generate the best available evidence for research on population health and well-being of populations as impacted by COVID-19. The Portal is a one-stop-shop, where Health Information (HI) Capacity Building is one of the services provided, to promote health information research and tackle HI inequalities between the Member States. The CHRC Team’s work aims at contributing to the development of a catalogue of services on population health capacity building in health information and COVID-19.
Methods: Through a desk research and literature review, the activities were collected by three stages: 1) the search for the main HI institutions & organizations; 2) the activities shared by these sources on their official websites and 3) the detailed collection of information on each activity (description and technical information).
Results: A website on HI capacity building was developed and the materials and courses found European materials and address different languages. They also focus on courses and materials about population health and non-pharmaceutical approaches to managing the COVID-19 pandemic - e.g., vaccination, lockdown plans, data analysis, etc. A European School on Health Information (ESHI) was established.
Conclusions: The activities developed reached some recommendations on the sustainability for the HI in Europe. The roadmap for sustainability on HI Capacity Building mainly addresses the identified HI needs across Europe, from which the ESHI has emerged.