John Haukeland, Rebecca Moore, Lise Bitsch, Valentina Possenti

This issue of the ASSET paper series, titled “The Role of Citizens in times of an Epidemic or Pan-demic”, is dedicated to the discussion of citizen participation in the response to a public health crisis such as an epidemic and furthermore, to the role of citizens in shaping public health policy. Specifically, the articles included in this issue present information from two European countries, Denmark and Ireland, based on the experience of the relevant ASSET project partners, who or-ganised a number of citizen consultations in their respective country.