The SPHERE project started in January 2005, under the leadership of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. EPHA is one of the partners together with the following organisations:
European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
National School of Public Health (Lisbon, Portugal)
National School of Public Health (Rennes, France)
Institute of Hygiene, Catholic University of Rome (Italy)
Kaunas University of Medicine (Lithuania)
Kaunas Public Health Center (Lithuania)
Slovak Public Health Association (Slovakia)
National Institute for Health Development (Talinn, Estonia
Nofer Institute, Department of Environmental Health Hazards (Lodz, Poland)
Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
Debrecen University (Hungary)
Durham University (UK)
University College London (UK)
University of Genoa (Italy)
Public Health Resource Unit Oxford (UK)
European Public Health Centre North-Rhine Westphalia (Germany)
The SPHERE study will describe public health research at European level, including support by national governments, and advise how it can be strengthened and most effectively integrate with European health policy.
The project will take into account the interaction and needs of policy-makers, the scientific community and end users, and how research outcomes can be best integrated into the policy process. It will also contribute to developing the public health research within the Seventh Framework Research Programm.
EPHA’s role in the project is to promote user involvement through consultation with its broad membership on their views of public health research, using electronic means and debates at its meetings. EPHA will also promote contact with the European Parliament.
EPHA related articles:
What role for civil society in research?
Improving health research at Eu level - the SPHERE project
A new EU Directory on Science and society
EPHA Extraordinary General Assembly, 13 December 2005
