EPHA is an international non-profit association registered in Belgium. Our membership is composed of not-for-profit organisations working on all aspects of public health.

EPHA’s mission is to promote and protect the health of all people living in Europe and to advocate for greater participation of citizens in health-related policy making at the European level.

Check EPHA’s business plan 2006 - 2010 and EPHA’s Annual reports . Below you will find the latest articles from the main sections of our website.

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Health and Europe Centre to host ’WASTED : An International Conference on Alcohol and Young People’

The Health and Europe Centre has announced that registration is now open for WASTED : An International Conference (...)...
23/06/2009

**Updated** Call for registrations : European Conference on Healthy Stadia

This article is updated with information on the ’early bird’ discount rate of the conference. As part (...)...
23/06/2009

Job Opportunity at FEANTSA

FEANTSA is currently looking for a part-time Finance and Administration Assistant– 20 hours per week to start (...)...
19/06/2009
Europe

EPHA joins the NGO Liaison Group of the Economic and Social Committee

On 17 June 2009, EPHA officially became a member of the NGO Liaison Group of the European Economic and Social (...)...
02/07/2009

Health Aspects of EU Development Policy

The European Union is the largest provider of development aid in the world. The 2008 figures from OECD show that (...)...
04/06/2009

*Updated : Czech Senate gives green light* 23 Member States have ratified the Treaty of Lisbon - Ireland said ’No’

The Treaty of Lisbon was signed by EU leaders on 13 December 2007. It provides for an institutional overhaul after (...)...
07/05/2009
Food and Agriculture

CAP Transparency : Commission to start infringement procedure against Germany

On 16 June 2009, the European Commission expressed its ’extreme’ disappointment that details of all (...)...
02/07/2009

New studies favour traffic light system for food labelling

The results from two recently-published studies indicate that a traffic light label on the front of package is the (...)...
04/06/2009

Further delays expected in the adoption of rules on health and nutrition claims

It is anticipated that the presentation of the highly controversial draft rules on health and nutrition claims on (...)...
04/06/2009
Publications and Events

EN-HERA ! Report : Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants in Europe and Beyond

In January 2009, the EN-HERA ! project published a report that was the result of a collaborative European research (...)...
04/06/2009

New OECD publications on aging, healthcare and obesity

In February and March 2009, the OECD published three new Working Papers : "Policies for Healthy Ageing : An (...)...
01/04/2009

European Policy meeting : "Civil Society : Motor or Obstacle to Research ?", 3-4 March 2009.

Under the umbrella of the STACS project (Science, Technology and Civil Society), FP6-2005-Science-and-Society-19-044597,...
25/02/2009
Society

Health agencies join forces to fight chronic non-communicable diseases

In a press release on their new website, six of the world’s leading health agencies, who collectively manage (...)...
02/07/2009

FEANTSA Toolkit and Briefing on Alcohol and Homelessness

As part of its commitment in the framework of the European Alcohol and Health Forum, FEANTSA has gathered (...)...
02/07/2009

Novel Influenza A/H1N1 (Swine Flu) outbreak becomes Pandemic

According to figures released by the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2005 and February 2009 a (...)...
15/06/2009
Wealth and Equity

Dr Margaret Chan : Greater equity in health should be a progress indicator

In a powerful address to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Forum on Advancing Global Health in the Face (...)...
02/07/2009

EPHA Open letter on Pharmaceutical Policy in the European Commission

As part of a sustained and long-lasting campaign, EPHA, BEUC and AIM have called for a European Commission that (...)...
17/06/2009

**Update** Directive on Patients’ Rights in Cross-border Healthcare

The proposal for a Directive on patients’ rights regarding cross-border healthcare was released on 2 July (...)...
09/06/2009

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- European Commission consultation on administrative burdens reduction (ongoing)
- European Medicines Agency Consultation on the Recommendation on elements required to support the medical plausibility and the assumption of significant benefit for an orphan designation (EMEA/COMP/15893/2009) (Closing : 21 July 2009)
- European Medicines Agency consultation on the development of medicinal products for the treatment of alcohol dependance (CHMP/EWP/20097/2008) respond only using this template (Closing 31 July 2009)
- European Medicines Agency consultation on the clinical investigation of medicinal products used in the treatment of hypertension respond only using this template (Closing : 31 July 2009)
- European Commission consultation in view of a possible designation of 2012 as European Year for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity (Closing : 31 July 2009)
- European Commission consultation on "Driver training and traffic safety education" (Closing : 31 July 2009)
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