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Managing acute respiratory virus infections: Where do we go?
11 June 2026
Résidence Palace, Brussels
This ESWI Respiratory Virus Summit took place on 11 June in Brussels.
ESWI Summits
Interdisciplinary Disease Collaboration (IDC) “Breath & Beyond”
The ESWI podcast series, IDC “Breath & Beyond”, shines a spotlight on the growing evidence linking respiratory virus infections and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
www.eswiairborne.org
Bridging the Gap: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Respiratory Infections and NCDs
5 March 2026
Online
We are delighted to let you know that the Interdisciplinary Disease Collaboration on Respiratory Infections and NCDs (IDC) has been relaunched with a broadened mission and scope. We are kicking off the new IDC with a Community meeting (webinar) on 5 March
Kick-off meeting Interdisciplinary Disease Collaboration (IDC)
ESWI Science Policy Interface Roundtable in Bucharest
22 October 2026
Bucharest, Romania
This event will bring together key stakeholders to address the critical challenges surrounding vaccine uptake and public health policy.
Science Policy Interface Roundtable
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2026
13
October
 
Preventing hospitalisations in Europe – Event 3 (EHMA & Sanofi)
Brussels, Belgium and online
The final event, scheduled on 13 October 2026 at the European Parliament, will bring together policymakers and health system leaders to discuss and validate recommendations emerging from the series.
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2026
14
October
 
EU Respi Day 2026
European Parliament, Brussels
EURespiDay 2026 will take place on 14 October at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Steering Group on Prevention of Respiratory Infections
2026
17
October
 
4th Primary Care Infectious Diseases Meeting
Melbourne, Australia and online
Immunisation For Health And Life – Hybrid Event
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2026
19
October
 
ESWI IDC Community Meeting
Online
Online meeting of the ESWI IDC Community
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2026
22
October
 
ESWI EVENT
ESWI Science Policy Interface Roundtable in Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
This event will bring together key stakeholders to address the critical challenges surrounding vaccine uptake and public health policy.
Science Policy Interface Roundtable
2026
28-31
October
 
Congress of the European Paediatric Academic Societies (CEPAS)
Lyon, France
The new meeting of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) and the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR).
CEPAS 2026
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High-dose vs standard-dose influenza vaccine in heart failure: the FLUNITY-HD pooled analysis
European Heart Journal
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The results of prior randomized trials investigating the potential role of influenza vaccination in preventing severe clinical events in various HF populations have been mixed.
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Immunogenicity and safety of an MF59-adjuvanted cell-derived higher-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine (aQIVc) in adults aged 50 years or older: a phase 3 randomised controlled trial
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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In adults aged 50 years or older, aQIVc was non-inferior and superior to aQIV for all four influenza strains and non-inferiority criteria for aQIVc versus QIVr were met for A/H1N1 and both B strains, but not A/H3N2.
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Emergence and spread of NA-I223V and NA-S247N double-mutant A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza viruses with reduced oseltamivir susceptibility in the Netherlands and beyond, 2023 to 2026
Eurosurveillance
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These findings underscore the need for ongoing genomic and phenotypic monitoring of antiviral susceptibility.
Scientific Papers
Effectiveness of high-dose versus standard-dose influenza vaccines against hospitalisation according to frailty risk: a prespecified analysis of the randomised trial DANFLU-2
The Lancet Healthy Longevity
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Among adults aged 65 years or older in Denmark, frailty risk might modify the effects of HD-IIV versus SD-IIV against hospitalisation for influenza or pneumonia, with higher rVE estimates with increasing frailty risk.
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ESWI networks & communities

Interdisciplinary Disease Collaboration

on Respiratory Infections and Non-communicable diseases

The Interdisciplinary Disease Collaboration on Respiratory Infections and Non-communicable diseases (IDC) unites scientists, healthcare professionals, patient -and other stakeholder organisations to achieve a better understanding of the bidirectional relationship and causal links between acute respiratory infections and non-communicable diseases.

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Early Career Scientists Network

Some of the best and most innovative ideas come from early career scientists, they are the future of the influenza field. For this reason, ESWI has been actively encouraging the careers of early career scientists for many years. 

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