by Bhavani Srinivasan | Mar 12, 2022 | Opinion
Looking back at the last two years, it is remarkable that it has taken a pandemic to understand the true importance of (public) health. Equally striking is the notion that it has taken two years to realise that there is no going “back to normal”, that a whole new...
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...
