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EUPHA

EUPHA's mission is to build capacity and knowledge in the field of public health, and to support practice and policy decisions through scientific evidence and producing and sharing knowledge with our members and partners in Europe.

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Response to LGBTIQ Equality Strategy

23 Jun 2025

This position paper has been developed in response to the European Commissions initiative to renew the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy for 20262030, with the contribution of EUPHAs Sexual and Gender Minority Health Section. It draws on the public health and human rights expertise of the EUPHA network, to ensure the strategy is firmly grounded in legal obligations, scientific evidence, and the lived realities of LGBTIQ+ populations across Europe. While the EU has made significant strides in protecting LGBTIQ+ rights, persistent gaps in enforcement, rising anti-LGBTIQ+ rhetoric, and unequal access to health and justice demand urgent attention. As public health professionals, we emphasize the urgent need for a strategy that meaningfully addresses the entrenched and often worsening health inequities faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, and other sexually and gender-diverse (LGBTIQ+) populations across Europe. Indeed, social emancipation has progressed in parts of Europe, but these gains remain fragile. Health inequitiesincluding in mental health, sexual and reproductive health, and access to appropriate careare not only persistent but are in some cases exacerbated by rising political backlash, misinformation, and systemic marginalisation. These inequalities are unjust, preventable, and unacceptable and must be urgently addressed. We commend the Commissions prioritisation of health, particularly mental health, in the proposed strategy. However, we urge that this focus be expanded to better reflect the intersecting vulnerabilities within LGBTIQ+ communities. We also stress the importance of broad stakeholder engagement, to ensure the policy is grounded in the lived realities of LGBTIQ+ individuals, by engaging LGBTIQ+ communities themselves as well as a wider range of professionals who regularly support them. Only through a truly inclusive, intersectional, and evidence-informed approach can the EU Equality Strategy deliver on its promise: to create a Union where LGBTIQ+ people not only live free from discrimination, but thrive with full health, dignity, and opportunity. We raise a total of eleven, more specific priorities.
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Response to 2025 Strategic Foresight Report

19 Mar 2025

In a rapidly evolving world, the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) calls for the integration of strategic foresight into EU public health policy to enhance resilience and preparedness. This public consultation response to the European Commissions 2025 Strategic Foresight Report emphasizes the need for long-term, anticipatory governance to safeguard public health in the face of climate change, digital transformation, security risks, and demographic shifts. 10 Key Takeaways from EUPHAs Foresight Strategy 2025 1️ Institutionalize Public Health Foresight Establish a structured long-term strategic foresight process within EU health policymaking to enhance resilience. 2️ Enhance Cross-Sector Collaboration Integrate public health foresight with climate, digital, and security policies to strengthen preparedness. 3️ Strengthen Scenario Planning Develop forward-looking health scenarios addressing geopolitical, environmental, and technological uncertainties. 4️ Leverage AI for Early Warning Systems Use AI-driven tools to detect weak signals and anticipate emerging health threats. 5️ Integrate Climate Foresight in Health Policies Ensure proactive adaptation to climate-related health risks and environmental challenges. 6️ Future-Proof Healthcare Infrastructure Build resilient, adaptable, and energy-efficient health systems to meet evolving demands. 7️ Promote Participatory Foresight Engage policymakers, researchers, and civil society in shaping inclusive, future-ready health strategies. 8️ Invest in Public Health Foresight Capacity Strengthen training programs and knowledge-sharing across EU institutions to build expertise. 9️ Develop an EU-Wide Resilience Framework Reinforce preparedness for pandemics, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and demographic shifts. Translate Foresight into Policy Action Establish mechanisms to integrate foresight insights into real-world decision-making. Why It Matters: To safeguard European public health, foresight must become a core pillar of policymakingmoving from reaction to proactive preparedness. By embedding long-term resilience thinking, Europe can anticipate future challenges and build a healthier, more secure future for all.
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Response to European Internal Security Strategy

12 Mar 2025

EUPHA proudly partners with the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association (GLEPHA), which works at the intersection of policing, justice, and public health. GLEPHA advocates for integrated, cross-sector security approaches, emphasizing prevention-focused strategies, data-driven decision-making, and community-centered resilience. EUPHA welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Internal Security Strategy, emphasizing that peace, ethics, and equity must form the foundation of security and public health. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in preparedness, demonstrating the risks of neglecting public health as a security issue. Climate change, misinformation, and socio-economic inequalities further amplify security threats. A truly deterrent Europe must integrate public health into security planning, ensuring that policies are evidence-based, ethically grounded, and designed to protect not just borders, but people and communities. Key recommendations Embed public health as a core pillar of the EU Internal Security Strategy, ensuring that security policies are equity-driven, climate-conscious, and grounded in social justice. Recognize climate security and biodiversity protection as a security priority. Strengthen the public health workforce as a pillar of crisis response and resilience. Develop EU-wide cross-sector frameworks to facilitate joint health-security crisis responses within existing legal mandates Support, fund and develop EU-backed, citizen-led local resilience hubs where citizens, public health, and security forces collaborate on crisis readiness and local, regional and cross-border levels. Reduce security vulnerabilities by addressing public health inequities and socio-economic disparities, ensuring that all communities have equitable access to healthcare, crisis preparedness, and social protection Develop integrated training programs for law enforcement and public health practitioners to enhance mutual understanding Enforce regulations on digital platforms to stop the spread of mis/disinformation, ensuring transparency in algorithms and supporting evidence-based public health communication.
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Response to Health technology assessment - Joint clinical assessments of medicinal products

29 Mar 2024

EUPHA, with EUPHA-HTA Section, welcomes the opportunity to provide input. A comprehensive implementing act free of ambiguity and arbitrary interpretations is a key step to inform MS how to prepare for the HTAR implementation, as well as for transparency and accountability in the interest of public health. Therefore, it is critical to ensure clarity in terms of the role of the Secretariat and CG, of experts input management, and, of course, timeliness. To this effect, we would like to provide the following comments. Art 4 and 6. The role of Secretariat is to ensure all information received is communicated to the CG, to its relevant subgroups and/or assessor/co-assessor but also to maintain timely and effective communication with other actors. Therefore Art 4 is incomplete in its current form and phrasing. According to Art 6), the Secretariat is also involved in identifying patients, clinical experts, and other relevant experts to be consulted during the JCA. On a practical level, this is a complex procedure, with regulatory project management roles being somewhat merged with expert decision-making. Art 6. The list of eligible patients, clinical experts and other relevant experts is performed based on sources reported separately in Art 6(2) and Art 6(3). This suggests that there is an intrinsic ranking while this is not the case because if the therapeutic area is not a rare disease and there are not representative groups within the HTA stakeholder network, sources mentioned in Art 6(3) ought to be considered. Clarity regarding this aspect including via merging Art 6(2) and Art 6(3) ought to be considered. Furthermore, it is likely not relevant to specify that in making the final selection the JCA Subgroup shall give priority to patients, clinical experts and other relevant experts who have expertise in the therapeutic area of the JCA. This is necessary and it should be guaranteed from the identification of the list. Art 9. The assessment scope is first shared with MS and then with patients, clinical experts, and other relevant experts. This does not represent a patient-centred or, indeed, an evidence-based approach, as specific inputs ought to be considered in advance. Furthermore, procedurally, receiving MS approval and revisiting expert inputs retrospectively may generate delays and compromise the timeliness of the overall procedure. Art 18 of the HTAR also refers to a retrospective establishment of the PICO. There needs to be clarity in terms of the processes to establish the scope to be shared with MS and a key step to contribute towards ensuring feasibility of the assessment would, indeed, be exactly to incorporate such key inputs prior to finalising the assessment scope. Art 10. At its time, the assessment scope should have already received the validation by MS and patients, clinical experts and other relevant experts. Therefore, this implies the assessment scope consolidation meeting lacks a specific purpose or is intended as a perfunctory process, which, of course, should not be the case. Furthermore, stipulations in terms of the regulatory clock ought to be carefully re-assessed (Art 10, 12, and 14) to ensure timely access to the information and evidence required by all parties and to avoid potential unnecessary delays. Art 13. There should be clarity in terms of who will be accountable and who will coordinate the validation of the dossier. Art 14. We note the high complexity of the processes and the need to ensure adequate resourcing that may require a robust structure of a more permanent character. Art 20 and 21. Commercially confidential information and protected personal data have been duly considered in other policies and regulations, including EMA ones. Clarity in terms of safeguarding these aspects, but also laying the ground for transparent rules is required. Therefore, these articles should be elaborated, including to inform MS about local implementation procedures, future process harmonization, etc.
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Response to Mid-term review of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025

14 Sept 2023

Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals are at a substantially heightened risk for a plethora of poor mental and behavioral health outcomes, including HIV acquisition, depression, anxiety, as well as self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs; e.g., non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior) compared to their cisgender peers (McNeil et al., 2017; Randall et al., 2023). Although most research studies demonstrating these gender identity-based disparities have been conducted in North America, several studies from across Europe have documented the presence of similar disparities in, e.g., Sweden (Bränström et al., 2022), Italy (Scandurra et al., 2021), and Switzerland (Nguyen et al., 2022). Emerging evidence has started to demonstrate that gender-affirming care for TGD individuals seeking such services may not only be associated with short-term alleviations in psychological distress, but also lead to long-term sustained improvements in psychosocial health (Chen et al. 2023; Green et al., 2022; Bränström & Pachankis, 2020; Becker-Hebly et al., 2021). Results reported by Chen and colleagues (2023) also highlight the importance of timely and careful access to gender-affirming hormone treatments in early-pubertal stages for later-life psychosocial wellbeing, suggesting that initiation of hormone treatments among TGD seeking gender-affirming care (i.e., puberty suppressors) during early puberty may help avoid traumatic pubertal changes incongruous with gender identity. These findings underline the importance of timely access to gender-affirming care to TGD youth and young adults, and may be considered one of the fundamental tools to advance health equity in TGD populations and prevent gender identity-based disparities in SITBs and other health outcomes. Yet, anti-gender movements across Europe have gained significant momentum in recent years. These movements challenge the validity and existence of gender, and in turn, gender identity as well (Rowlands, 2023). Anti-gender campaigners range from conservative political actors, religious leaders and institutions, to gender critical feminists, all united in one mission: to advocate for legislative and political action against the fundamental human rights of TGD people and ban access to gender-affirming care for TGD youth and young adults. These actors utilize misinformation, disinformation, and confusion to achieve their goals. This anti-gender advocacy has clear and devastating public health implications. TGD children are especially vulnerable, increasing their risk for poor physical and mental outcomes due to relentless attacks on their very identity, and delaying or even barring access to the provision of trans-specific healthcare, including puberty suppressors, through policy regression. Countering anti-trans narratives in Europe and protecting TGD childrens health and human rights require concerted action and leadership across all levels of government, including the European Commission. To win against anti-gender campaigns in Europe, it is critical to guarantee access to gender-affirming care for TGD youth and young adults seeking such services. These protections are central to any goal that aims to achieve LGBTIQ equality. The Commissions LGBTIQ Equality Strategy will only be truly successful if it helps drive effective EU and national policies that protect TGD youth and young adults access to gender-affirming care. References - included as attachment:
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Response to 2040 Climate Target Plan

23 Jun 2023

In this CALL FOR EVIDENCE FOR AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT are given Likely economic impacts, Likely social impacts, Likely environmental impacts, Likely impacts on fundamental rights and equality. However, Health impacts are missing. It is necessary to include the (many) Health impact assessment. Health (individual and public health) should be used more intensively as a strong argument in motivating all sectors and decision makers in initiative 2040 Climate Target. There are extensive number of evidence brought by European research under Horizon project (such as ENBEL and similar research groups) that provide strong evidence for climate change adaptation and mitigation impacts on health. Ambitious efforts to mitigate GHG emissions will bring many co- benefits: have positive impacts on well-being and health of the European (and global) population, lower air pollution (associated with lower use of fossil fuels would deliver significant benefits in terms of health), lower congestion in cities, improve buildings and greener cities, and many other. The European Public Health Association has a mission to facilitate and activate a strong voice of the public health network by enhancing visibility of the evidence and by strengthening the capacity of public health professionals. Environmental issues global pollution, biodiversity collapse and climate change - are of the utmost importance for the Public Health community and health sector. EUPHA advocates bringing together researchers, policymakers and practitioners working in the same field for knowledge sharing and capacity building, among others in health impact assessment in climate change. We strongly agree that impacts on health must be a part of the assessment together with economic activity and employment, territorial cohesion, the environment, energy security of supply, affordability, distributional implications, trade and international relations.
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Response to A comprehensive approach to mental health

15 Feb 2023

Mental health issues have a profound impact on individuals, families, communities and societies, and cause a high burden of disease (1). The COVID-19 pandemic has been largely detrimental to the mental health condition of many groups of people in Europe, with vulnerable and at risk groups, such as older people, adolescents, migrants, refugees, people with substance abuse problems and psychiatric patients, more seriously affected (2). That is why EUPHAs members identified mental health as a top priority for public health (3). EUPHA therefore welcomes and values the approach to put mental health in the spotlight of interest of policy makers in the European Union. However, it should be avoided to label human suffering as disorders and we would like to strengthen both a dimensional and systemic lens approach to mental health conditions and mental health. (4) Mental health is much more than the absence of mental illness; this is one pillar of EUPHAs work on mental health. (5) Mental health and mental health conditions are dimensional, this is another pillar we can build on. Furthermore, mental health and mental health conditions develop and change during life course and maybe even affected by pre-natal exposures. (6) This fact underscores the importance of early, especially traumatic life events including pre-natal experiences in building a foundation for mental health. Therefore, the focus on exposures during work and workplace related stress even if it is very important highlights a limited perspective on mental health conditions. Additionally, mental disorders were once believed to be lifelong conditions, it is now clear that when individuals receive support and treatment they can and do recover. This perspective can be complemented by a public health systems perspective. The systems approach focusses on how mental health and mental health conditions are related and evolve not only the workplace, but in exposure and in interactions with family members, friends, communities, societies including the physical, chemical and built environment. (7) To make the most of the European Commission mental health strategy in terms of improving mental health in the European region and reducing prevalence and severity of mental health conditions, EUPHA Public mental health Section supports activities where interventions might have huge impact including in families. We would like to contribute to a public health perspective and call to: - Promote mental health in a systemic perspective - Strengthen family and positive parenting as they are contributors and mediators of positive mental health - Promote that mental health goes beyond a focus on the individual - Contribute to supporting public mental health research overcoming purely medical or psychological approaches - Contribute to reducing stigma - Contribute to the knowledge that mental health and behavior are dynamic and malleable - Address mental health and mental health conditions influencing factors in a systemic way from a public health perspective - Promote mentally healthy social and physical environments - Bring together public health experts and mental health experts in research - Advance mental health care by bringing together primary care and mental health specialized care 1) GBD 2019 Mental Disorders Collaborators. Global, regional, and national burden of 12 mental disorders in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Psychiatry. 2022 Feb;9(2):137-150. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00395-3. Epub 2022 Jan 10. PMID: 35026139; PMCID: PMC8776563. 2) Mental Health in 2021: A summary report of the track on Mental Health at the 14th European Public Health conference 2021. EUPHA, 2022. Available at: https://eupha.org/repository/advocacy/2022/Track report mental health in 2021.pdf 3) Lindert J, Carta MG, Schäfer I, Mollica RF. Refugees mental health... [references continued attached file]
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Response to A European Health Data Space

25 Jul 2022

EUPHA welcomes the establishment of the EHDS, and feels that the regulation proposal provides a solid basis for further discussion and development. In that further development, we urge to Commission to take into consideration various issues that, when not considered well and mitigated, could hamper the practical implementation and effectiveness of the EHDS. Most notably these relate to making sure that the EHDS will facilitate timely access of data for research at a reasonable cost and that data catalogues are genuinely usable across country borders, and taking into consideration the differences in terms of health information infrastructure, capacities and resources between Member States. Our full response is attached.
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Response to Revised recommendation on smoke-free environments

20 Jul 2022

The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) gathered evidence on smoke-free environments published in the European Journal of Public Health. The evidence is supportive of expending the 2009 recommendations on smoke-free environments with outdoor spaces and emerging products, including electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products. The attached overview document presents a selection of peer-reviewed articles on outdoor smoking regulations and on emerging products, such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. The key results and conclusions are presented, including the implications for policy and the European Commission recommendations.
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Meeting with Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides), Panayiotis Pourgourides (Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides)

23 Mar 2022 · Exchange of views on food labelling under Farm to Fork and Europe’s Beating cancer Plan.

Meeting with Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

9 Nov 2021 · VC meeting - Public health in a post-COVID era, EU4Health and opportunities of cooperation

Response to Review of the general product safety directive

4 Oct 2021

The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) welcomes the opportunity to provide input regarding the Commission’s General Product Safety Directive (GPSR). We also consider important the need to comprehend and address emerging challenges; in this context the EU Consumer Legislation, the Digital Market Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), the e-Commerce Directive, the Market Surveillance Regulation and the Proposal for a regulation for laying down rules for Artificial Intelligence ought to be examined, to ensure complementarity and congruence. Several aspects of this are highlighted in the Inception Assessment. Key considerations in relation to standards and monitoring mechanisms for harmonized market surveillance ought to be examined in the context of public health and safety, with emphasis on substance removal/product recall. Our complete feedback here: https://eupha.org/repository/EUPHA_Safety_Directive.pdf
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Response to Revision of Food Information to Consumers for what concerns labelling rules on alcoholic beverages

21 Jul 2021

The European Public Health Association strongly objects to options 0 and 1 of the Initial Impact Assessment and, within the narrow scope of the document, supports option 2. See attached file for our full feedback.
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Response to Setting of nutrient profiles

3 Feb 2021

The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) supports the establishment of nutrient profiles which were foreseen already under the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation No 1924/2006. Setting nutrient profiles is a key step in reducing risks for misleading claims on products with poor nutritional quality. Setting nutrient profiles will be also an important aspect of front-of-pack (FOP) labelling although it should not be dependent on the progress on the FOP labelling. EUPHA supports the proposals for a scientific committee of independent experts to review and adapt existing algorithms for nutrient profiling. Some of the good examples are the WHO nutrient profile for regulating the marketing of food to children, nutrient profile used in the Swedish key hole system and nutrient profile in the Finnish heart symbol. We call for a uniform system based on 100g or 100ml and for a system that has different criteria based on the category of food. Focus of the dietary guideline should be a health-promoting diet that is moving away from an animal-based diet to a more plant-based diet with a very limited consumption of products with high content of free sugars, saturated fats or salt. Since health and nutrition claims are important and widely used marketing tools intended to encourage consumers to purchase certain products, the Commission should put this obligation as a priority to ensure consumer protection and to prevent further masking of overall nutrition profiles of unhealthy food products.
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Response to Green Paper on Ageing

14 Dec 2020

EUPHA strongly supports the European Commission’s initiative to start and nurture the important discussion around the European demographic challenge of ageing with this Green paper. This challenge is tightly connected to health, as the major threats to a healthy ageing are the multimorbidities i.e the accumulation of conditions due to individual or external factors or both (such as nutrition) one can expect to develop over a life time. As this life time has expanded, chronic diseases and disabilities have more chances to add up over time and to affect the elderly. While men and women of 65 years old can expect to live 19.5 more years in the EU28, they can only expect to live 9.4 healthy years (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/elderly/index.html). In 2020, the Croatian Presidency decided to make healthy ageing one of the priorities of its mandate. To support this decision, our Croatian member – the Croatian Public Health Association - put together an e-collection in the European Journal of Public Health focusing on Ageing and Health. The WHO defines healthy ageing as ‘the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age’. To ensure healthy ageing, prevention is the most powerful tool at our disposal. Though promoting health at all ages contributes to healthy ageing, some targeted interventions for the elderly can significantly improve both their physical and mental health. There is for example evidence that promoting physical activity among the elderly can reduce the risk of falls, and evidence that encouraging their participation in society can decrease the risk of social isolation. More research is still needed to assess the (cost) effectiveness of community interventions. Setting up those actions on local and national levels across Europe could contribute to decrease the burden on individuals and societies. However, like always, the full answer is much more complex than just prevention, and also needs to address the following: 1. Socio economic issues • We need to look at one’s socio economic status during an entire life course as we know it has a great impact on health, but also to the specific economic status of the elderly, both in general and using a gender-based approach. Older women are at greater risk of poverty than older men (OECD, 2019) so addressing gender inequality at a younger age would have a significant impact on the risk of poverty especially for older women. (https://www.euro.who.int/fr/health-topics/health-determinants/gender/womens-health/womens-health-report/poverty-among-older-women) • It is crucial that our health systems adequately support and do not overload informal caregivers 2. Health systems organisation • We need more integration of primary care and public health if we want to tackle the issue of multi morbidities • We need a patient-centred approach, not a disease-centred one that does not take all environmental factors into consideration • As multi morbidities are more and more common, and as diseases that used to be deadly are now turning into chronic conditions, our health care systems face more complex demand. We need to make sure that the delivery of care services can transform adequately to meet those new needs. 3. Health inequalities • Specific attention needs to be paid to racism and systemic discrimination as major threats to healthy ageing in many countries. • As the digitalisation of our societies and of our health care systems is accelerating, it is important to make sure that older people have the right skills to stay connected (digital health literacy) Healthy ageing is a challenge that can only be addressed by a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, and with deliberate collaboration of public health professionals with economists, urbanists or sociologists in order to build policies that will have meaningful and positive impacts on our ageing societies.
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Response to Final evaluation of the 3rd Health Programme 2014-2020

17 Nov 2020

Deliberative collaboration between sectors is needed EUPHA is pleased to hear that the new president of the European Union, Dr Ursula von de Leyen, emphasized the need for a European health union in her first State of the Union speech on 16 September 2020 “For me, it is crystal clear – we need to build a stronger European Health Union. And to start making this a reality, we must now draw the first lessons from the health crisis. We need to make our new EU4Health programme future proof. This is why I had proposed to increase funding and I am grateful that this Parliament is ready to fight for more funding and remedy the cuts made by the European Council.” With this positive support, the European and global public health community are ready to address the future challenges in public health. It has been well-established that non-health sectors - i.e. agriculture, employment, economy, environment [ii] - have a direct impact on public health, and therefore can also promote health and prevent diseases. To achieve this, Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a powerful tool that has been around for quite some time but the implementation remains difficult. We therefore urge continued efforts to make it standard practice. For HiAP to be sustainable over time, health and non-health sectors need to move away from working in silos and be deliberately collaborative. This approach is not only necessary to increase the health of European citizens, it is necessary to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Furthermore, to be able to contribute to a sustainable and efficient health system, roles of (non-usual) stakeholders should become clear. Moreover, currently the EU is missing a central organ that supports with and provides health knowledge in times of crisis. This is why the reinforcement of the ECDC and EMA mandates are welcome, as they will allow the development of common monitoring indicators across Europe. In addition, stronger legislation will allow to declare an emergency situation at the European level and trigger action mechanisms. However, this has been decided in reaction to COVID-19 and though it is a step in the right direction, the next step should include non-communicable diseases which are the leading cause of death, disease and disability in the WHO European Region. A clear example where intersectoral collaboration is urgently needed - as EU citizens did not get protected from serious health threats- is with the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 management outbreak teams often only include health professionals - such as virologists and epidemiologists - causing an incomplete analysis of the effects of (the measurements) of COVID-19: i.e. unforeseen increase in mental health problems, increased inequalities (i.e. read our EUPHA statement on migrants and ethnic minorities and COVID-19), increase in economic problems that in turn affect one’s health, and so on. The societal divides that have been deepened by COVID-19 and increased vulnerabilities calls for targeted action to reduce health inequalities. Including non-usual suspects in targeted actions - such as minorities, economists, retail sector, social and mental health experts - would help prevent the unforeseen effects of COVID-19. To promote and enhance intersectoral collaboration, an increased budget is necessary to successfully develop inter-sectoral activities and we, as members of the EU4HEalth Civil Society Alliance, therefore warmly welcome the re-evaluation of the upcoming EU4Health budget. Budget is necessary to enable everyone in Europe to achieve the highest possible level of health by providing independent and authoritative analysis of the evidence, combined with targeted advocacy to achieve coordinated action by all key stakeholders (see EUPHA Triple A strategy to be published early 2021). ________________________________________ i. Greer, S., 2019. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About European Union Health Policies But Were Afraid To Ask. 2nd ed.
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Meeting with Anne Bucher (Director-General Health and Food Safety)

22 Nov 2019 · To participate in plenary sessions 3 and 4 of Coference on Building bridges for solidarity and public health

Meeting with Anne Bucher (Director-General Health and Food Safety)

27 Jun 2019 · The future of public health in Europe; ss collaboration and opportunities for strengthening public health in Europe

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

29 Nov 2018 · Lowering premature deaths

Response to The EU budget for the future

18 May 2018

The attached file provides feedback on 'the EU budget for the future' from the European Public Health Association (EUPHA).
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Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

3 May 2018 · HTA

Response to Strengthened cooperation against vaccine preventable diseases

13 Dec 2017

The European Public Health Association (EUPHA), a network of national associations of public health, representing around 20’000 public health professionals, wholeheartedly welcomes the European Commission’s roadmap on vaccine preventable diseases. Vaccination is one of the most powerful and effective public health interventions known. It has saved millions of lives and brought huge benefits to public and individual health. As a direct result, many infections that used to affect the most vulnerable, including children, have disappeared or are extremely rare. Scientific evidence of the beneficial effect of vaccines is overwhelming; there is unequivocal evidence going back decades that vaccines have been one of the major drivers of the decreasing burden of infectious diseases. Yet we in Europe cannot be complacent. Vaccination coverage with MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) is already too low in several countries in Europe, leading to outbreaks of measles, with cases in children needing hospitalisation or even dying. Everywhere, vaccine hesitancy threatens the achievement of sufficient vaccine coverage to protect populations from infections. Full feedback available at https://eupha.org/repository/advocacy/EUPHA_DG_Sante_Roadmap_to_strengthen_cooperation_against_vaccine_preventable_diseases.pdf.
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