by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 17, 2016 | Opinion
An important chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade negotiations between the EU and US deals with ‘Regulatory Cooperation’. Whilst it may sound dull and harmless it poses and extremely serious threat to national...
by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 8, 2016 | Opinion
A new report by the European Commission’s Senior Advisor on Sustainability, Karl Falkenberg, calls for a Fitness Check of the Common Agricultural Policy – a long overdue admission that all is not well in food and farming. And yet the report comes at the same time as a...
by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 8, 2016 | Opinion
By Sascha Marchang, Policy Manager, EPHA A recent debate organised by thinktank Bruegel brought together policymakers, civil society and industry representatives to discuss the recommendations of the UK Review on AMR published in May 2016. The event ‘Tackling...
by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 8, 2016 | Opinion
By Sascha Marschang, Policy Manager, EPHA EPHA and Changing Markets unveils how the pharmaceutical industry’s role in contributing to the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) via pollution of the environment in a new briefing. The failure to produce drugs...
by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 8, 2016 | Opinion
By Sascha Marshang, Policy Manager, EPHA The VulnerABLE project began in early 2016 and aims to examine barriers and opportunities in accessing healthcare services for people living in vulnerable and isolated situations. Notably, an inventory of good practices is...
by EPHA | Jul 7, 2016 | Opinion
By Nina Renshaw, Secretary General, EPHA @ninawren Violent storms hit Brussels during the night of Thursday last week. The mood was similarly dark, tense and tempestuous throughout the day when the British went to the polls for a once-in-a-generation vote on whether...