by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | COVID-19, The View from EPHA, Universal Access and Affordable Medicines | Analysis & 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 epidemic...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | COVID-19, EPHA News, The View from EPHA
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...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | #VaccineEquity, COVID-19
Marije Versteeg, Senior Global Health Advocate at Wemos, @Marije_Versteeg Since the onset of the pandemic, a multitude of access initiatives and proposals have been initiated by public and multilateral institutions worldwide, ranging from COVAX, the...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 25, 2022 | COVID-19, The View from EPHA
Guest article by Fiona Godfrey, Consultant in health and climate policy and former Secretary-General at EPHAAs we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest issues we face is how public health priorities interact with civil and human rights. I...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 17, 2021 | COVID-19, EPHA News
On Tuesday 7 December 2021, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) hosted an online discussion on working in partnership with civil society in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in the frame of the EPHA 2021 AnnualGeneral Assembly.Following the keynote speech by...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 16, 2021 | COVID-19, Health Inequalities | Publications
The spread of COVID-19 took the world by storm and very few places have been left untouched. With the aim to contain the virus, countries around the world have resorted to school and workplace closure, cancelation of public events and gatherings, mandatory mask...