by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 19, 2021 | News Release, Statements
19 January 2021 Globally, 80m adolescents are living with obesity, and without substantial intervention, the figure is due to rise to 150m by 2030. But what interventions work? The STOP Project, funded in 2018 by the European Union to identify new interventions to...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 18, 2020 | Statements
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the fundamental importance of public health into stark relief, with inadequate action on issues prior to the crisis, such as in the areas of disease prevention, commercial determinants of health, health promotion and tackling...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 18, 2020 | Statements
A coalition of 65 associations, including the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), ask the Portuguese EU Presidency to put public interest at the centre of its agenda. 17 December 2020 Dear Prime Minister Costa, The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 17, 2020 | Statements
39 civil society organisations including EPHA are calling on the European Commission and EU national governments to ensure a maximum degree of transparency in the EU’s exchanges, negotiations and deals with pharmaceutical companies over COVID19 vaccines, proposing a...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 16, 2020 | Statements
A court in the United Kingdom has made legal history by ruling that air pollution is one of the causes of death of 9 year old Ella Kissi-Debrah, who lived near a busy road in London with her mother. Ella has become the first person in the UK – and potentially...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 15, 2020 | News Release, Statements
Health NGOs are key implementing partners to prepare European health systems to face future health threats Brussels, 15th December Primary prevention takes the place it deserves as at least 20 % of the total budget is reserved for health promotion and disease...
