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“A kullancsveszély egy nyári jelenség.” – gondolják sokan, de tévednek. Létezik egy olyan kullancsfaj, a téli kullancs, amely kifejezetten a hideg hónapokhoz alkalmazkodott. A Turista

A Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for pandemic preparedness has been completed, intended to serve as the central document of an upcoming European partnership on this topic. Its goal is to define the thematic priorities and strategic objectives of the partnership and act as a guiding document for improving pandemic preparedness within the European research ecosystem.

The number of pertussis cases is rising dramatically. Our colleagues' assessment of the situation is available on the Semmelweis University Centre for Epidemiology and Surveillence website.

The conference, which attracted international participants, provided a unique opportunity for the stakeholder community to explore the latest developments in ehealth and cybersecurity, the current challenges and the opportunities for the future.

Invasive mosquito species already established in Hungary can pose a significant threat to human and animal health due to their potential role in the pathogen transmission. Researchers from the HUN-REN Ecological Research Centre and the University of Pécs, part of the Invasion Biology Division of the National Laboratory for Health Security,

Beatrix Oroszi was interviewed by InfoRádió-InfoStart. The Hungarian video is available here, and the 444.hu article about the interview here. (Photo: InfoRádió/Youtube)

The TÉR-EPI geographic information system developed by our colleagues was chosen as the Geographic Information Project of the Year, and the lead researcher of the project, Attila Juhász, was chosen as the Geoinformatican of the Year. Congratulations!

On behalf of the HUN-REN Ecological Research Centre and the Division of Invasion Biology of the National Laboratory for Health Security, we would like to welcome you to the 1st Conference on Invasion Biology. All further information on the conference

Dr. Peter Pollner and his co-authors published an article in the August issue of Nature Communications on the presence of pathogens of various origins in sewage, including antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria

At the event of the SECURED project on 2-3 October 2024, the participating doctors, computer scientists and university students were introduced to methods of generating synthetic image data in the fields of cardiotocography (CTG), mammography, chest X-ray and skull (brain) MRI imaging.

The research of the Data-Driven Health Division was also presented at the XXIX Congress of the Hungarian Society of Urologists.

Dr Tamás Joó and his co-authors published an internationally collaborative research report on the global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the September issue of the Lancet.

The National Laboratory of Biotechnology at the HUN-REN Szeged Biological Research Centre, in collaboration with the National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy (NNGYK), the National Laboratory of Health Security and several health institutions

Dr Miklós Szócska gave a presentation entitled Data: the secret to Longevity at the AI Summit 2024 in Budapest.

Researchers of the National Laboratory for Health Security’s Mosquito Monitor program created a new laboratory to breed invasive mosquitoes and to study their acoustic ecology. Adult individuals

Ground-nesting bees are highly sensitive to changes in vegetation, flower supply and soil properties caused by plant invasions. The direct and indirect effects of twelve alien invasive plant species

Science can show the way out of pandemics, the lack of knowledge and information makes us more vulnerable, so it is always worth investing in pandemic preparedness. If we only approach it from an economic point of view, it is because a healthy workforce is necessary for economic development

The XVIII. IME Health Policy and Healthcare Systems Conference was jointly organized by the Semmelweis University Health Services Management Training Center (SE EMK), the leading institute of the Division of Data-Driven Health of the National Laboratory for Health Security and the Hungarian Healthcare Management Association (MEMT) on June 12, 2024 with a record number of participants.

Biological invasions are a growing challenge around the world. Meanwhile, it is now widely recognised and acknowledged that indigenous peoples’ territories play a key role

The AMC, the top conference of applied mathematical research in Hungary, was held between 3 and 5 June 2024, this year hosted by the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged.

László Garamszegi, Head of our Division of Invasion Biology, gave an interview to Index.

Representing Hungary and the National Laboratory for Health Security, Beatrix Oroszi and Gergely Röst participated in the conference "Europe united against old and new epidemics" organised in cooperation with the Belgian Presidency and the Council of the EU.

On 10 May 2024, at the XXXVI. Congress of the Hungarian Hospital Association was held the final competition of the spring Hack4Cure Hackathon dedicated to the Green Hospital topic.

On 27 March 2024, the HUN-REN Ecological Research Centre, Experimental Vegetation Ecology Research Group and the Kiskunság National Park Directorate organised this professional meeting in Kecskemét. The

At the XXXVIth Congress of the Hungarian Hospital Association in Mátraháza, Dr. Miklós Szócska, Head of the Health Safety National Laboratory Data-Driven Health Division, opened the session on Digital Healthcare and artificial intelligence.

Krisztián Katona, associate professor at the Department of Wildlife Biology and Wildlife Management of the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences (MATE), talked the problems related to nutrias in the Természet Világa magazine.

On 25 April 2024, at the 22nd IME Data Driven Healthcare and Cybersecurity Conference, Dr. Miklós Szócska, Head of the Health Safety National Laboratory Data-Driven Health Division, opened the final contest of the Hack4Cure Hackathon in the Health for All category.

On the 25th of April 2024, the Semmelweis University Health Services Management Training Centre, the leading institute of the Health Safety National Laboratory Data-Driven Health Division, in cooperation with the Hungarian Healthcare Management Association, organized the 22nd Data-Driven Healthcare and Cybersecurity Conference.

Running ticks New tick species capable of spreading dangerous pathogens are emerging - our colleague Gábor Földvári told hvg.hu.

Dr. Krisztián Katona, biologist of our Division of Invasion Biology, spoke on 24.hu about the dangers of the raccoon, which is spreading in Hungary.

Artificial intelligence can alleviate the shortage of specialists in the field of oncology - Tamás Joó (Division of Data-driven Health) talked to Népszava.

On April 17-18, 2024, our institute was represented at the HVG Spring Job Fair held at the Papp László Budapest Sport Arena. In addition to information about our current and upcoming courses, our colleagues awaited the visitors of our stand with open positions at HSMTC.

Our colleague Gábor Földvári talked about ticks in Petőfi Radio this time.

Led by researchers from the University of Alberta in Canada, members of the CER ‘Lendület’ Seed Ecology Research Group also participated in an international study to find the key to the success of invasive grass species.

Dr. Peter Pollner and his co-authors, including Dr. István Adorján and D. István Csabai, published a joint paper on the detection of astrocytes in human brain tissue in the January issue of the journal Scientific Data, part of the Nature family.

The Hungarian Healthcare Management Association is organising the 22nd edition of the Data-Driven Healthcare and Cybersecurity Conference. This year's summit will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the IT and cybersecurity challenges of healthcare.

Dr. Gábor Földvári, Head of our Centre for Eco-Epidemiology, spoke about the research on ticks in Hungary in the Sigma programme of Inforadio

Meeting of volunteer natural data collectors - all are welcome

The János Bolyai Mathematical Society will organize the BJMT Applied Mathematics Conference in Szeged, Hungary, between June 3-5, 2024, in cooperation with the Bolyai Institute of SZTE, HU-MATHS-IN and the National Laboratory for Health Security.

One of the research topics of the Pilis Forestry Systems Experiment is to investigate the effects of different silvicultural practices on understorey vegetation in an oak–hornbeam forest stand. In the experiment, interventions of two significantly different forest management modes

Krisztián Katona, who, together with his colleagues, researches the nutrias in Hungary within the Division of Invasion Biology of the National Laboratory for Health Security, gave an interview to 24.hu.

In January 2024, the HUN-REN Ecological Research Centre’s Evolutionary Ecology Research Group launched a network of community science projects on conservation and ecology in Hungary. The SEEN (Social Engagement in Ecology Network) Conference, held in Tata on 18-19 January,

The staff of the National Laboratory for Health Security were shocked to learn of the unexpected, tragic death of Ferenc Jakab.

Full house at the NIS2 Information Forum for health and health industry leaders on 13. February 2024.

Hungary ranks last in the current vaccination coverage against COVID-19 in the vulnerable elderly population in January 2024, according to a compilation by the Centre for Epidemiology and Surveillance of Semmelweis University.

This year, for the first time, data-driven healthcare was represented with eight presentations at the 2024 TDK conference organised by Semmelweis University.

Updates from our consortium member, the Centre for Epidemiology and Surveillance (Semmelweis University) can be found at the link below.

The head of our Centre for Eco-Epidemiology, Dr. Gábor Földvári, spoke about the protocol developed by the Hungarian research team for the prevention of pandemics in the Radio Europa programme.

The VI. Opportunities and Challenges Conference was held at the Óbuda University on 1 February 2024 with the participation of colleagues and experts from the Health Safety National Laboratory Data-Driven Health Division.

Dr. Miklós Szócska, Head of Division of the Data-Driven Health Division at the Health Safety National Laboratory also gave a presentation at the professional event attended by the Egyptian delegation.

Dr. Krisztián Katona, researcher of our Division of Invasion Biology, talked about nutria, raccoons and invasion in the program “Délelőtt” of Kossuth Rádió.

The conference was organized by the Centre for Ecological Research, a consortium member of National Laboratory for Health Security.

As a national workshop for the data-driven healthcare paradigm shift, a new Master's degree in Data Science in Health is launched for health and informatics graduates who want to participate in modern healthcare with a modern data science approach.

22-28 January is Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, and our colleagues take a look at the situation in Hungary in this article.

As part of the seminar series of National Laboratory for Health Security, two world-renowned scientists of evolutionary modelling will give a lecture at the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged.

The paper by our colleague Viktor Müller and his student Levente Zsichla has been awarded the Clarivate/Web of Science "Highly Cited Paper" ranking, as it was included in the top 1% of the most cited papers in microbiology in 2023.

Our researchers, Dr. Eszter Bokányi, Dr. Zsolt Vizi, Dr. Júlia Koltai, Dr. Gergely Röst and Dr. Márton Karsai published an article on an innovative method for daily estimation of the epidemic reproduction number in the journal Scientific Reports.

Researchers of Semmelweis University Health Services Management Training Centre have won first place in the Nightingale Open Science and Association for Health Learning & Inference (AHLI) competition, and have been invited to the Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) conference in New Orleans.

Tamara Szentiványi, a researcher in our Division of Invasion Biology, and her colleagues highlighted the potential of citizen science observations in a recent paper published in the journal Mammal Review

Native plant communities are effective in crowding out alien plants, our researchers have found.

The Hungarian National Geographic reports on the results of Melinda Halassy's (Division of Invasion Biology) research team.

Those who are good at predicting are the most effective at preparing for danger. At the National Laboratory for Health Security, many of us are working on this.

Feline (FCoV) and canine (Canine coronavirus, CCoV) coronaviruses, as their names imply, cause infections mainly in cats and dogs

Nowadays, one of the most effective seed dispersal vectors are humans. The key our efficiency is the rapidly growing rate of global transport, trade and tourism, which enables us to move more and more easily and quickly between distant biogeographical regions

The nlc.hu wrote an article about the potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare, in which Miklós Szócska, head of our Division for Data-Driven Health, is quoted.

At the event entitled "Celebration of Hungarian Science and the achievements of Hungarian scientists in the field of cancer research", besides Nobel Prize winner Katalin Karikó, five other famous Hungarian scientists, including the Scientific Director of National Laboratory for Health Security, Gergely Röst, also gave a talk.

Tamara Szentiványi, a researcher from our Division of Invasion Biology, spoke to Qubit about whether the increase in bedbugs in Europe is a real phenomenon and, if so, what is causing the invasion.

Dr. Miklós Szócska, Head of the Data-Driven Health Division of the National Laboratory for Health Security, spoke about the present and future of artificial intelligence on Jazzy Radio.

Colleagues from the Data-Driven Health Division of the National Laboratory for Health Security participated in the 8th ENSP - European Conference on Tobacco Control on the latest developments in tobacco control in Europe.

This year, the Eurasian Grassland Conference was held in Szarvas, organized by the Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group of the HUN-REN Ecological Research Centre and the Körös-Maros National Park Directorate

Community science based monitoring of invasive mammal and bird species of Hungary has begun in a cooperation between the Institute for Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation of Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) and the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research.

Plant invasion and habitat fragmentation have adverse effects on biodiversity in almost all ecosystems. Our research explored the direct and indirect effects of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) invasion on plant and arthropod biodiversity.

The negative impacts of invasive species on both nature and people are huge.

The Centre for Epidemiology and Surveillance (Semmelweis University) within our Division of Mathematical Epidemiology is seeking applications from family doctors for a national epidemiological study.

Attending a breast screening can save lives! - is what our researchers are raising awareness of on the occasion of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

5th Cybersecurity Game Játs(s)zMa as part of the European Cyber Security Month campaign in Hungary

The National Laboratory For Health Security Division of Data-Driven Health was also represented at the European Health Forum Gastein.

Experts from the Data-Driven Health Division of the National Laboratory for Health Security also gave a presentation at the Researchers' Night.

Within our Mathematical Epidemiology Division, the Centre for Epidemiology and Surveillance at Semmelweis University has its own website: https://semmelweis.hu/esk/

Our colleague Beatrix Oroszi expresses her views at Népszava. Go to the Hungarian article

A review by Lajos Rózsa and József Garay, researchers from our Division of Epidemiology, was published in the British journal Parasitology. This has been published on the website of the Centre for Ecological Research.

Dr. Gábor Földvári, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of the Centre for Ecological Research, Head of our Centre of Eco-Epidemiology, spoke about the spread of ticks on 24hu.

In the programme, László Zsolt Garamszegi, head of the Invasion Biology Division, talked about the mission of the national laboratory, Melinda Halassy presented her research on the control of the common...

Dr. László Zsolt Garamszegi, head of our Division of Invasion Biology, gave an interview to 24hu about the spread of tiger mosquitoes.

Beatrix Oroszi, Director of the Centre for Epidemiology and Surveillance at Semmelweis University, spoke about the current threats of the coronavirus, its new sub-virus, prevention, the importance of booster vaccination...

Researchers from our Division of Invasion Biology have observed a potential raccoon invasion near Budapest. Go to the Hungarian article

Urbanisation can contribute significantly to the spread of invasive mosquito species and the diseases they spread.

The head of our Division of Invasion Biology was interviewed by Magyar Nemzet. (Photo: Magyar Nemzet)

Invasions of alien species are a major cause of biodiversity loss, threatening both natural and human-managed ecosystems. Ecological restoration of habitats is key to controlling invasion,

Roadside verges are a key corridor for the spread of invasive species and are often considered as invasion hotspots. Invasive plant species are a source of serious problems for both

The Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged is the first in Hungary to organise the 36th Modelling Week for students of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI). The workshop will bring together 52 European...

The Eurasian beaver is a native species with community interest in the European Union. The species was previously extinct in Hungary, but today it is spreading intensively in the country, recolonising its former habitats. The selective foraging activity of the beaver can induce significant changes

Tamara Szentiványi, a researcher from our Division of Invasion Biology, talked about research and conservation of endangered parasite species in an article for Qubit.

Researchers are asking for the public's help in monitoring the spread of invasive mosquitoes, reports Új Szó Nálunk.

We need to start incorporating the lessons learned into disease control, says epidemiologist Beatrix Oroszi. The director of the Centre for Epidemiology and Surveillance at Semmelweis University was interviewed by Portfolio.

Promoting the digital transformation of pulmonology and the implementation of joint public health programmes are the focus of the cooperation for which Semmelweis University's Health Services Management Training Centre and the National Koranyi Pulmonology...

Timing and the right quantity and composition of the seed mixture are key in seeded grassland restoration. Research by the Centre for Ecological Research has sought to answer the question of

Május végén a NATO Katona-egészségügyi Kiválósági Központja a COVID-19 pandémia tanulságairól szervezett magas szintű találkozót, ahol számos tábornok mellett részt vett többek Martin Bricknell, a

The journalist of 24.hu talked to Dr. Gábor Földvári, who strengthens the Centre for Eco-Epidemiology of ENL, about the increasing number of ticks and how to protect against them.

Az idegenhonos fajok megjelenése, megtelepedése Magyarországon is számtalan ökológiai, gazdasági és társadalmi konfliktus forrása. A betelepülő fajok sok esetben invázióra és az őshonos rendszerek gyors

Ornamental plants are introduced to new habitats when they are planted in gardens, where the maintaince creates the suitable conditions for them. Later, in natural habitats, they can easily occupy open niches by escaping from gardens and become invasive.

Invasive plant species have a negative impact on local fauna, such as pollinating insects, by transforming vegetation and decreasing floral resources. In three recent studies,

In a new study, the Mosquito Monitor Group has used a model-based approach to demonstrate that so-called “citizen science” data collected with the public’s participation can be used to draw scientific conclusions. By “citizen science”

Short-term effects of control of the invasive plant (Asclepias syriaca L.): secondary invasion of neophyte plants instead of regeneration of native species. In this study,

The raccoon (Procyon lotor) is an alien species that is widespread in mainland Europe (e.g., France, Belgium, Germany, Poland). Populations originated from escaped pets and introductions. The raccoon is already confirmed in the fauna of Hungary.

Március végén több mint 100 német modellező gyűlt össze Berlinben az 1. Országos Német Járványmodellezési Konferencián. Az esemény egyben a MONID nevű német kutatóhálózat nyitórendezvénye

Dr. Gergely Röst, mathematician at the University of Szeged, and scientific director of the National Laboratory for Health Security, was interviewed by National Geographic.

For the first time, the National Laboratory for Health Security, a consortium of 15 higher education and research institutions led by the University of Szeged, was presented at the SZTE Innovation Day. SZTE-Info...

The National Laboratory for Health Security is a network of researchers dedicated to predicting and preventing epidemics, mathematical modelling, identifying ecological risks associated with pathogens and invasive species, and analysing digital health data.