by European Public Health Alliance | Jun 29, 2017 | Opinion
It’s becoming a familiar routine, Europe’s Health Ministers get together several times a year and sign off clear sighted and ambitious conclusions to halt the rise of childhood obesity. Since 2000, we have had at least 8 Council documents, an EU Action Plan on...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jun 9, 2017 | Opinion
Yannis Natsis, Policy Manager for Universal Access and Affordable Medicines at the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), discusses the latest developments in market access across Europe, and the collaborative efforts its constituents are engaging in to improve it....
by EPHA | Jun 2, 2017 | Opinion, Statements
More than 200 organisations representing a range of public health NGOs, patient groups, health professionals and disease groups have today written to President Juncker to express their concern about the future of Health in European policies and programmes, following...
by EPHA | May 29, 2017 | Opinion
On 22 May the European Commission released the 2017 country specific recommendations (CSRs), signalling the final stage of the annual European Semester cycle. EPHA has been monitoring and engaging with the Semester since its introduction in 2011, advocating for a...
by European Public Health Alliance | May 19, 2017 | Opinion
At the end of April, the European Commission finally announced its long-overdue plan to counterbalance the harmful impacts of austerity policies and deep cuts to health services, care and education. The package of documents constituting the Pillar are, at first...
by European Public Health Alliance | May 19, 2017 | Opinion
What a busy week, last week has been for pharmaceutical policy-making in Europe! The Mediterranean initiative launched last July in Athens proves to be still alive with the signing of the Valletta Declaration last week in Malta by the Health Ministers of Portugal,...
