by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | Opinion
Guest article by Tamsin Rose, Senior Fellow for Health at Friends of Europe and former Secretary-General at EPHA COVID-19 was unprecedented but not unpredicted. In 2018, the WHO designated ‘Disease X‘ as representing the knowledge that a serious international...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | Opinion
As I write, I am conscious that we are approaching the two-year anniversary of COVID-19’s arrival in Europe. My last in-person meeting was an EPHA Board meeting in early March 2020, and I recall us all wondering around the table quite what the future would hold. In...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | Opinion
Marije Versteeg, Senior Global Health Advocate at Wemos, @Marije_Versteeg Since the onset of the pandemic, a multitude of access initiatives and proposals have been initiated by public and multilateral institutions worldwide, ranging from COVAX, the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | Opinion
Guest article by Fiona Godfrey, Consultant in health and climate policy and former Secretary-General at EPHA As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest issues we face is how public health priorities interact with civil and human rights. I...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 24, 2022 | Opinion
According to a new study published today, no major European city is developing enough non-polluting forms of transport by 2030, threatening to undermine the health of its citizens. This disappointing situation in 36 major cities was revealed in a report released by...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 28, 2021 | Opinion
The December 2021 Council Conclusions negotiated under the Slovenian Presidency of the EU and signed off by all 27 EU Health Ministers offer a helpful snapshot of where the pharmaceuticals debate stands today, nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and one year...