PREPARE

PREPARE is an acronym for the European Union's Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics. The coordinator is professor Herman Goossens of the University of Antwerp. It was activated on 31 December 2019 in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and as of February 2020^[update] was operating in outbreak response mode 2 (mobilisation), the second of three modes.

• Official website
• Gobat, Nina; Van Someren Gréve, Frank; Sigfrid, Louise; Reusken, Chantal B.; Deege, Frank; Carson, Gail; Horby, Peter; Koopmans, Marion; De Jong, Menno D.; Goossens, Herman (2018). "Preparedness for clinical research during pandemics: a perspective from the Platform for European Preparedness Against (Re-)emerging Epidemics (PREPARE)". The Lancet. 392: S38. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32099-3. S2CID 53721195.