EpiSouth website and Bulletin
The EpiSouth website can be considered both an output of the project and the mean by which most of the results are being disseminated to the international audience. The web-site also publishes relevant guidelines, documents, and policies on topics of interest for the project and makes available useful links with national and international organisations.

The website is structured in two areas.

• A public portal devoted to the dissemination of the information collected and the results generated by the EpiSouth network to all interested people who visit the site.
• An access-restricted Network Working Area as a permanent communication tool to support the communication among project participants.

Moreover, the EpiSouth Electronic Bulletin summarises the information presented in the website and is being sent by e-mail to selected national institutions, as well as to European and International institutions and to people who register for this service.

EpiSouth Networking
An effective collaboration among the Mediterranean countries will enable to have a wider and clearer picture of the peculiar context in this region, EpiSouth being one of the few existing projects with a pure Mediterranean focus. It will also identify possible areas of significant gaps in public health where new funds need to be directed.

Communication among partners is the best way to react and respond to possible health threats, and the dissemination of the information to those who need to know will enable a prompt action. In this regard, the network of epidemiologists, created in the context of EpiSouth, will represent a vital source of information for the European Union as well as for the participating countries to further strengthen their capacity to early and effectively respond to possible health threats and to more efficiently contain the further spread of infectious diseases.

A directory of all the Institutions involved in EpiSouth will be available in the website. Moreover, three strategic documents on priority issues relevant in this region with regard to cross border epidemic intelligence, vaccine preventable disease and migrant populations, and emerging zoonoses will be prepared and disseminated.

Training
Three Training Modules of one week each will be organised and delivered to around 100 people belonging to the Institutions of EpiSouth Network.

The analysis of results of the training needs assessment, the teaching material from the modules, and a directory of training courses and fellowships of interest to Episouth countries will be available in the Web Site.

EpiSouth Weekly Epi Bulletin (e-WEB) and Cross-border Epidemic Intelligence on website
The Weekly Epi Bulletin reports new health events occurring outside EpiSouth Area but susceptible to have implications for EpiSouth populations. In fact, the international public health intelligence comes as a complement to regular monitoring of national surveillance and aims to identify health threats that can potentially affect these populations. Epidemic intelligence, based on already collected and circulating information, consists in the sorting out, verification, analysis and eventually dissemination of information.

Access-restricted section on the website will be used to allow rapid circulation of information on cross-border Epidemic Intelligence, to offer a space for discussion and to share alerts originating from EpiSouth partners and restricted only to partners. In fact, all participating countries should be able to communicate their alert of potential common interest to the other participating countries.

Vaccine-preventable diseases and migrant populations
A country based assessment survey for vaccine preventable diseases and migrant populations among participating countries will be made available with information about country specific migrant groups, organization and performance of their immunizations and problems faced by the national public health system in this context.

Moreover, a strategic document on vaccine preventable diseases and migrant populations will be produced with guidelines for exchanging information on VPD among migrants and recommendations for improving the access to immunizations of migrant groups.

Epidemiology and preparedness to cross-border emerging zoonoses
A Directory to allow communication between human (HPH) and veterinary public health (VPH) officials, with accurate contacts for specific diseases will be produced for strengthening the collaboration between the Mediterranean countries regarding exchanging information on emerging zoonotic infections with possibility of cross border transmission.

In addition, a description of epidemiology and monitoring in the area of a selected list of zoonoses and a strategic document on risk assessment methods for cross-border transmission and mechanism to exchange information between HPH and VPH officers on possible outbreaks will be produced and disseminated.