by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 10, 2022 | Statements
In December 2021, the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) adopted its INI report on how to strengthen the EU’s role in fighting cancer. Ahead of the upcoming European Parliament plenary session, where the final report will be voted on, a...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 22, 2021 | Statements
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an immense impact across the globe, in all aspects of daily life. As European policymakers respond and engage in building more resilient healthcare systems, it is crucial that we understand the implications of COVID-19 on the fight...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 15, 2021 | Statements
Among many other developments, COVID-19 is said to have increased the pace of digitalisation in many countries across Europe, including a boost to the digital transformation of health and care. While, prior to the pandemic, e/mHealth remained a blurry notion in places...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 3, 2021 | Statements
During the annual State of the Union speech on the 16th of September 2021, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered on her promise by announcing the creation of the European Health Emergency Preparedness Authority (HERA) whose main goal is to ensure that...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 26, 2021 | Statements
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change highlights the increase of impacts of climate change on human health. Including 44 indicators and representing the consensus among leading researchers from 43 academic institutions and UN agencies,...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 14, 2021 | Statements
Health systems strengthening is a key objective of the EU4Health Programme, all the more so since the full gravity of the impacts of the ongoing pandemic crisis remain to be discovered. Many health systems already hard hit by Europe’s financial and economic crisis...
