This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission has published a report assessing the work of the Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) since its creation over three years ago. The report highlights HERA’s achievements in strengthening EU-level preparedness and response capacities, as well as taking on […]Commission takes stock of the work of HERA to reinforce health security in the EU
March 27, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission has published a report assessing the work of the Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) since its creation over three years ago. The report highlights HERA’s achievements in strengthening EU-level preparedness and response capacities, as well as taking on […]First HERA Invest agreement signed to support research and development in cross-border health threats
October 7, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission, through its Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) and the European Investment Bank, have signed an agreement worth €20 million with the French biopharmaceutical company Fabentech. This will support the company’s development and deployment of its broad-spectrum therapeutics to combat […]European Health Union: HERA Invest offers €100 million for innovative solutions to health threats
July 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission and the European Investment Bank announce the creation of HERA Invest, a €100 million top-up to the InvestEU programme, to support research and development (R&D) in the most pressing cross-border health threats, financed by the EU4Health programme. Currently, European companies find […]European Health Union: HERA secures up to 2 million doses of the monkeypox vaccine
November 18, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, the Commission’s Health Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), has signed a Joint Procurement Framework contract with the company Bavarian Nordic, for the supply of up to 2 million doses of the monkeypox vaccine in the course of 2023 and 2024. This offers 14 […]Health Union: HERA secures additional vaccine doses in the fight against the monkeypox outbreak
September 7, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. Today, HERA, the Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, has secured an additional 170,920 doses of Bavarian Nordic’s 3rd generation vaccine to respond to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and to meet the more immediate needs. This brings the total number of doses directly purchased by […]Health Union: HERA delivers list of top-3 health threats to prepare against
July 12, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) today presents a priority list of top-3 health threats that require coordination of measures at EU level in the context of medical countermeasures. The HERA Board agreed on a list which includes three threat categories […]
