1) The ECDC has launched a new version of its webportal with an improved mobile version, new design, and easier access to searchable data and outputs. 2) User studies showed that people most commonly enter the site looking for information about specific diseases or public health areas. 3) In the new version, all ECDC publications, data, tools, and other outputs will be tagged and searchable by disease and public health function to make them easier to find. Disease and topic-specific pages provide highlights, latest outputs, and navigation features.

1. ECDC webportal: microbiology
information
16th National Microbiology Focal Points meeting
Signe Gilbro, Communication Officer Web and Social Media, PHC
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
16th NMFP, Stockholm, 4-5 May 2017

2. 1
Webportal 2.0
What’s new?
1) Mobile version
2) New design
3) New information structure and
easy access to data
Content & structure:
• Search by disease
• Search by public health function
• Easy access to data & outputs:
faceted search

3. 2
User studies - main routes into the site:
diseases and public health areas

4. 3
User studies: Search Publications and data

5. 4
Webportal 2.0: Publications, data/tools
What does it mean for the ECDC outputs?
• Tagged with ‘diseases’ – ‘public health function’
Disease
• Dengue
• Malaria
• West Nile fever
• Yellow fever
• Zika
• Japanese encephalitis
• Tick-borne diseases
• Babesiosis
• Borreliosis/Lyme
• Crimean-Congo
haemorrhagic fever
• Rickettsiosis
• TBE
• Tick-borne relapsing fever
• Leishmaniasis
• Louse-borne diseases
• Bartonella quintana
infection/ trench fever
• Epidemic louse-borne typhus
• Louse-borne relapsing fever
• Arenavirus infection
• Alkhurma haemorrhagic
fever
• Crimean-Congo
haemorrhagic fever
• Ebola and Marburg fever
• Zika
• Lassa fever
• Rift Valley fever
• Yellow fever
Public health area
• Threats and outbreaks
• Surveillance and disease data
• Scientific advice
• Microbiology
• Preparedness
• Communication
• Immunisation
• Migrant health
• Training

6. 5
Webportal 2.0: Publications, data/tools
What does it mean for the ECDC outputs?
• Tagged with ‘diseases’ and ‘public health
function’ and could be found through search
or on the relevant pages

7. 6
Webportal 2.0: Publications, data/tools
What does it mean for the ECDC outputs?
• Maps, tools, toolkit materials, infographics and other data will be
available as data assets and organised by disease/area

8. 7
Webportal 2.0: Publications, data/tools
Publications/Data pages

9. 8
Webportal 2.0: Outputs
Publications/Data pages

10. 9
Webportal 2.0: Disease pages

11. 10
Webportal 2.0: Disease pages
Common template for
disease landing pages:
• Highlights
• Latest outputs
• Navigation (example)
• More highlights

12. 11
Webportal 2.0: Public health areas e.g.
Microbiology pages
Example

13. 12
Microbiology sub pages
• Molecular and genomic typing
• Laboratory capacity and capability
• External quality assessments
• Training
• Links to Microbiology Programme, laboratory networks and
NMFP page  About us/what we do
• External links
• Links to useful documents

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Thank you for listening!
ECDC.Microbiology@ecdc.europa.eu