by EPHA | Mar 12, 2020 | Statements
12 March 2020 The European public health community is at the forefront of the battle against the outbreak of COVID-19, which yesterday was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization. As Europe’s leading NGO alliance bringing together public health...
by EPHA | Mar 5, 2020 | Statements
Air pollution is the number one environmental threat to health in the European region and globally, leading to 400,000 premature deaths and hundreds of billions of euros in health costs in the EU each year. There is a large body of evidence on how air pollution harms...
by EPHA | Mar 4, 2020 | Statements
Brussels, 4th March – The Commission needs to re-think the EU Climate law to harvest more effectively its public health benefits. The savings in health costs of the planned climate mitigating measures should be reflected accordingly in its future actions. Today,...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 26, 2020 | Statements
23 million children grow up at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU. The ones affected are those in most vulnerable situations, and they urgently need access to key social rights, reads a statement by the EU Alliance for Investing in Children. EPHA has joined...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2020 | Statements
EPHA joins other civil society organisations in calling on the European Commission to explicitly recognise and address the need to move towards less and better animal product consumption and production in the EU. The letter raises alarm that the issue of animal...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 19, 2020 | News Release, Statements
New MEP Interest Group on AMR launched today will push for more European cooperation to stop antimicrobial resistance Brussels, 19 February 2020. “Antimicrobial resistance is one of the top ten global public health threats we currently face. Taking effective action to...
