Track E2: Workshop: Emerging pandemic infections: tools and policies to enhance international research and control.

The article focuses on a workshop on emerging pandemic infections research in Europe organized by the European Public Health Association section of Infectious Disease Control. One study focused on the differences in risk perception of infectious diseases in Europe and Asia. Another paper discussed the efforts of the international community to control the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), presenting an inventory of European health policies for the control of pandemic infections.