The EU Initiative on Health Security aims to set up a regional competent workforce for the prevention and control of challenges posed by transferable diseases and to enhance regional cooperation to tackle cross-border health security threats.

The overall objective is to contribute to health security by protecting EU Neighbours’ citizens against cross-border health threats posed by communicable diseases.

The specific objectives are as follows:
- Strengthen partner countries’ skills and institutional mechanisms to respond to health threats.
- Support cross-border cooperation between the EU and partner countries on health security threats of common interest through exchange of information, best practices and lessons learnt.

- Continuation and further development of MediPIET as Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP).
- Stronger countries’ systems and capacities necessary to effectively assess, detect, respond and prevent threats from communicable diseases.
- Progressive integration of the partner countries in the work of ECDC.
- Enhanced regional cooperation in the field of preparedness, response and emergency operations.