Each year, WHO/Europe organizes a meeting for influenza surveillance focal points to exchange information and discuss new developments. The WHO Regional surveillance meeting anno 2009 took place in St Petersburg, Russian Federation, on 9-11 September 2009.
Three WHO hospital emergency preparedness workshops with a focus on the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 took place in Durres, Albania, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in autumn 2009
A series of workshops on deployment of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine were organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and took place in autumn 2009
On 25-26 August 2009, the WHO Regional Office for Europe hosted a meeting to address the response to the pandemic (H1N1) 2009; decision makers and senior staff from ministries and national institutes in 23 countries attended