by Milka Sokolović | Sep 29, 2022 | EPHA News, The View from EPHA
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, health ministers and high-level delegates of the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region, as well as representatives of partner organizations and civil society, gathered in September in Tel Aviv for the 72nd...
by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 16, 2022 | #EU4Health, The View from EPHA
EPHA analysis of President von der Leyen’s 2022 State of the European Union On 14 September, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave her annual State of the European Union speech (SOTEU). A flagship address, she reflected on the year that has passed...
by Rosa Castro | Jun 30, 2022 | #A2Medicines, Monkeypox, The View from EPHA, Universal Access and Affordable Medicines | Latest Developments
“With HERA up and running, the EU has significantly reinforced its capacity to respond and address new health threats decisively”. This is what Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said on 28 June 2022 when she announced that the first batch of monkeypox vaccines...
by Milka Sokolović | Jun 28, 2022 | Monkeypox, The View from EPHA
Things go viral, again With the COVID-19 pandemic still alive and kicking, a monkeypox outbreak “goes viral” in high-income countries, and in a matter of days transitions from an “exotic disease that happens to others” into a household name. In a matter of...
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...
