by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 30, 2020 | Opinion
A recent “virtual townhall” meeting on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan raised high expectations promoting a solid prevention pillar. The meeting, held on September 10th and organised by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, was part of a wider DG SANTE...
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 30, 2020 | Opinion
By Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Associate Professor in Public Policy, University of Warwick, EPHA Scientific Advisor on Trade Policy. The coronavirus crisis has thrown the link between trade, investment and health into sharp relief. The world has experienced an unprecedented...
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 30, 2020 | Opinion
By Laura Wetzel, Policy Assistant, EPHATo discuss the role of alcohol consumption in cancer prevention, with a special focus on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, EPHA members IOGT-NTO, European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare) and The Association of European Cancer...
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 30, 2020 | Opinion
It has been more than fifteen months since agreement in principle was reached on the controversial EU-Mercosur trade agreement, and yet ratification hasn’t even begun. So what’s going on? Officially the Association Agreement is being ‘scrubbed’ and translated...
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 21, 2020 | Opinion, Reports
In Slovakia, as elsewhere in Europe segregated Roma face much greater difficulties accessing and receiving standard healthcare services compared to other citizens. An new briefing by EPHA Roma Health Fellow, Marcela Adamova and Andrej Belak, Institute of Ethnology and...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jul 13, 2020 | Opinion
Following the release of the European Commission’s digital package in February 2020, the digital transformation of health and care received an unanticipated yet powerful push as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. For example, whereas previously, many healthcare...
