by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 30, 2020 | News Release, Statements
Italiano Deutsch Français Polski 30 March 2020, Brussels – A comprehensive set of satellite images reveal how air pollution has fallen dramatically in cities across the world due to Covid-19 lockdown measures. But the “damage is already done” for patients,...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 25, 2020 | Statements
EPHA joined 61 organisations including patients, consumers, healthcare professionals, trade unions and public interest organisations in expressing our views on the importance of the role of public support to research and development during the current pandemic. Since...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 25, 2020 | Statements
More Europe, not less, is needed to tackle systemic societal challenges affecting our health, fix flaws in our health systems and support our health workforce. As the COVID-19 pandemic holds Europe in its grasp, it is becoming increasingly clear that unprecedented...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 16, 2020 | News Release, Statements
Conditions caused by dirty air likely to cut survival chances New maps show clean air returning to cities in lockdown 16 March 2020, Brussels – Those living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)...
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...
