by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 15, 2021 | Children and Youth, Health Inequalities
On 28 January, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a landmark deal on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). EU Member States with an average of EU child poverty higher than the 2017-2019 EU average (23,4%) will now have to allocate at...
by European Public Health Alliance | Feb 3, 2021 | Cancer, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
3 February 2021, Brussels. Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan is a major step in EU public health policy. EPHA is encouraged by the Beating Cancer Plan’s comprehensive, multi-pillared approach to tackling cancer, a leading cause of death, human suffering and an increasing...
by European Public Health Alliance | Jan 28, 2021 | CAP & Health, Farm to Fork, Food, Drink and Agriculture | Publications
This policy paper, supported by EPHA, puts forward a proposal to mainstream agroecology into the policies governing EU food systems. It uses the FAO ‘10 Elements of Agroecology’ and ‘13 Agroecological Principles’ as a framework to envision how agroecology should be...
by Yannis Natsis | Dec 17, 2020 | COVID-19, Universal Access and Affordable Medicines | Latest Developments
39 civil society organisations including EPHA are calling on the European Commission and EU national governments to ensure a maximum degree of transparency in the EU’s exchanges, negotiations and deals with pharmaceutical companies over COVID19 vaccines, proposing a...
by European Public Health Alliance | Dec 16, 2020 | Clean Air | Latest Developments
A court in the United Kingdom has made legal history by ruling that air pollution is one of the causes of death of 9 year old Ella Kissi-Debrah, who lived near a busy road in London with her mother. Ella has become the first person in the UK – and potentially...
