by European Public Health Alliance | Jun 28, 2022 | Opinion
Things go viral, again With the COVID-19 pandemic still alive and kicking, a monkeypox outbreak “goes viral” in high-income countries, and in a matter of days transitions from an “exotic disease that happens to others” into a household name. In a matter of...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 20, 2022 | Opinion
The European Parliament is undertaking an extremely important task of examining how the European Union has dealt with the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We know that its impact on almost every aspect of our lives and livelihoods has been and often...
by Bhavani Srinivasan | Mar 12, 2022 | Opinion
Looking back at the last two years, it is remarkable that it has taken a pandemic to understand the true importance of (public) health. Equally striking is the notion that it has taken two years to realise that there is no going “back to normal”, that a whole new...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | Opinion
Guest article by Tamsin Rose, Senior Fellow for Health at Friends of Europe and former Secretary-General at EPHA COVID-19 was unprecedented but not unpredicted. In 2018, the WHO designated ‘Disease X‘ as representing the knowledge that a serious international...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | Opinion
As I write, I am conscious that we are approaching the two-year anniversary of COVID-19’s arrival in Europe. My last in-person meeting was an EPHA Board meeting in early March 2020, and I recall us all wondering around the table quite what the future would hold. In...
