Ecraid is primarily concerned with the health of European citizens and those living in Europe. Our purpose is to reduce the impact of infectious diseases on individual and population health. Patients and those of risk of infectious diseases are the ultimate targeted beneficiaries of our services. The primary needs of patients and citizens at risk addressed by Ecraid are: 

• The need for (better) protection against infectious diseases
• The need for more patient-centred and acceptable clinical research processes
• The need to have access to trustworthy, credible and accessible information about infectious diseases and the role of science in combatting them 

Infectious diseases pose a serious threat to global health and economies. Common infections, caused by known pathogens have a large impact on global health, especially to vulnerable patient groups, leaving much ground to win still, by improving diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic strategies.

Academic researchers and healthcare providers are both beneficiaries of the clinical evidence generated by Ecraid’s clinical research, and they can play an active role as participant in Ecraid’s clinical research studies.

As beneficiaries, both academic researchers and healthcare providers can address their need for (faster) access to robust and rigorous clinical evidence on the clinical effectiveness of interventions for different patient groups. Academic researchers at their starting or mid-stage careers can use Ecraid as a steppingstone to the international clinical research arena on infectious diseases. 

Participation in Ecraid can offer easier, more direct and structural access to scientifically relevant large, multinational studies. 

Ecraid offers pharmaceutical companies and medical technology companies, from small start-ups to large multinationals, the capability to perform (parts of) their clinical research studies in support of the further development of their product pipelines. This way, these companies have ‘on-demand’, direct, single-point-of-access to a large, international high-quality clinical network. 

Ecraid offers fast and efficient access to rigorous evidence and data supporting the formulation of public health measures and policies to governmental organisations (international organisations, national health authorities). This includes high quality data on the epidemiology, prevalence, severity, and risk groups of infectious diseases threats and their causative pathogens, clinical data on treatments and treatment responses and other actionable information enabling better public health measures and policies. 

Such governmental organisations can assume various complementary roles in Ecraid, such as partners in the design and conduct of Ecraid’s clinical research, funders of clinical research studies conducted by Ecraid, users of the clinical evidence generated by our clinical research in their policy design.