Incidence, severity and impact of influenza: A joint meeting organised by the ISIRV epidemiology group and ECDC, Stockholm, 2019

Abstract

The International Society for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (ISIRV) Epidemiology Group and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) held a joint meeting at the ECDC facilities in Stockholm on 16–18 January 2019. This meeting followed the ‘Incidence, Severity and Impact of Influenza’ meeting in Paris and the ISIRV Epidemiology Group Panel at Options XI in Chicago in 2016. The 2019 meeting focused on defining, assessing and monitoring the incidence, severity and impact of influenza. The organisers aimed at building bridges between the epidemiology, modelling, public health and clinical communities. The meeting was organised around six core topics: (i) linking clinical research and surveillance, (ii) what happens outside the hospital, (iii) learning from ‘real-world’ clinical and patient data (iv) predicting outcomes on the individual and population level (v) advancing public health surveillance of severity and (vi) surveillance of severity in low resource or crowded settings.