by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 30, 2018 | Opinion
Air pollution presents the most severe environmental risk to human health. While the Bulgarian EU Presidency designated air quality improvement one of its top environmental priorities, including it on the agenda of the European Environment Ministers’ informal Council...
by EPHA | Apr 10, 2018 | Statements
“There is already a very good example for a successful conflict of interest policy at the UN level. Vested interests have been blacklisted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, in order to protect public health policy-making from the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 14, 2018 | Opinion
As the EU begins the reflection process on its future budget questions are being raised about the right level of EU action on health in a post-2020 EU. Members of the public health community are currently highlighting the health and economic benefits from cleaning...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 31, 2017 | Reports
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT DOWNLOAD THE EU POLICY BRIEF 31 October 2017 – EU policy briefing calls for further action to tackle the twin challenges of climate change and air pollution This briefing for EU policy-makers, developed by the Lancet Countdown and the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 27, 2017 | Opinion
Air pollution is one of the major public health challenges of our time. The public health context in terms of protecting EU citizens’ health and reducing the chronic disease burden and its associated costs to healthcare systems is a vital consideration in the debate...