The European Commission’s Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) was set up in 2021 to enhance Europe`s ability to quickly respond to cross border healthcare threats and ensure health security. It will do so by ensuring the timely development, manufacture, procurement, and equitable distribution of essential medical countermeasures, by relying on a strong public private partnership. HERA is currently operational. However, certain gaps and unclarities still remain and this panel will gather relevant cross-sectorial actors to discuss and address them.