by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 19, 2021 | Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments, STOP Obesity
19 January 2021. Globally, 80m adolescents are living with obesity, and without substantial intervention, the figure is due to rise to 150m by 2030. But what interventions work? The STOP Project, funded in 2018 by the European Union to identify new interventions to...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 30, 2020 | CAP & Health, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments
EPHA joins other NGOs in requesting transparency in the trilogues on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP will spend €387 billion of taxpayers’ money till 2027 and is critical for Europe’s success in addressing a variety of societal issues, including...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 8, 2020 | Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments, STOP Obesity
The global prevalence of obesity in adults and children has increased dramatically over the past decade, making obesity prevention policies into a priority for many governments and intergovernmental agencies. To determine the cost, equity and acceptability of three...
by European Public Health Alliance | Nov 2, 2020 | CAP & Health, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments
EPHA joins calls to European Commission President von der Leyen to withdraw the proposal for the new EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Following the latest vote in the European Parliament there is very little left for public health in the current CAP. Tabling a new...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 20, 2020 | CAP & Health, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments
Throughout the reform of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), many opportunities for the CAP to genuinely support public health objectives, such as healthy food environments, planetary health objectives, fair working conditions and the phase out of health-harming...
by European Public Health Alliance | Oct 16, 2020 | Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Latest Developments
Ahead of the meeting of the AGRIFISH Council on 19-20 October, EPHA has joined four European health organisations and two Members of European Parliament in writing to EU agriculture ministers to ask them to put health above commercial interests when discussing a...
