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**Updated** The SAFE Project draws to a close

The three year, European wide collaboration on sexual and reproductive rights for young people through the ’SAFE Project’ came to an end at a closing conference in Brussels on 8/9 October 2007.
http://www.ysafe.net/SAFE/index.php... The European Commission funded project, “Sexual Awareness for Europe (SAFE): A European Partnership to promote the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young people”, was a partnership between the International Planned Parenthood (...)

**Updated** DIETS project: Dietitians Improving the Education and Training Standards

Updated with information about the conference on 6-7 September. A new Thematic Network called DIETS (Dietitians Improving the Education and Training Standards) was launched in October 2006 and is led by the University of Plymouth. EPHA is a member of the network.
DIETS builds on the excellent foundations which the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians (EFAD) established through their initiatives in education, such as developing the European Benchmark Statement for Dietitians. (...)

EPHA organises workshop on nutrition and health

EPHA is organising a training session on nutrition and health before the end of 2007.
The aim of the session is to identify ways to build links with research institutions and identify research groupd interested in working with civil society organisations on the field of nutrition and health.
The session will be an occassion for civil society organisations to deepen their understanding of nutrition and health and to strengthen their capacities to approach scientific questions.
Structure of (...)

** Updated ** EPHA’s 2007 International Conference: Health in the Enlarged EU

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) concluded its three-year project "Building the Public Health Community across Europe" by organising an international conference. The conference "Health in the Enlarged EU" held in Bratislava on 16-17 April 2007, is settled by a final report now available.
Outcomes
In June and July 2007, EPHA publised on the Conference website several documents of the conference:
The "Health in Enlarged EU"’s Final report including the minutes of the plenary (...)

Involving civil society organisations in research projects

EPHA is a partners of the STACS Project funded by the European Commission, DG Research. The purpose of the project is to support the active participation of civil society organisations in research projects.
The STACS (Science, Technology and Civil Society) project brings together a consortium of six organisations coordinated by the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes (FSC).
The overarching aim of the project is to improve civil society involvement in research policy issues. To achieve this, the (...)

Exchange of best practice on NGO coallitions in Malta, 2006

On 14th of November, 2006 the Malta Recourse Centre (MRC) held a Practices Exchange Meeting on Networking in Public Health, in Malta .
As part of the EPHA’s Central and Eastern European project, the MRC, in cooperation with Civic Alliance Latvia (CAL), held a meeting for a variety of Maltese organisations working on public health in order to discuss the scope for setting up a public health network in Malta.
The MRC has previously been successful in establishing an Anti-poverty (...)

Mapping of NGOs in the new Member States, 2006

As part of the EPHA activities in CEE countries, a questionnaire with questions about public health and networking was sent out targetting specific NGOs during 2006.
Out of the 16 organisations targeted with the questionnaire, 5 sent out a completed response.
Slovenia: “Centre for AIDS Prevention and Vulnerable Groups” confirms that in their country there is a public health platform of NGOs, although civil society participation in public health decission making is not yet (...)

Second Bridging the Gap conference on Alcohol Policy

The second Bridging the Gap Conference took place in Helsinki, on the 20-22 November 2006. It aimed to address the implementation of cost effective policies to reduce the harm done by alcohol.
Organised by Eurocare, the conference addresed the following six themes:
Creating evidence;
Protecting young people;
Protecting third parties;
Combating drink-driving;
Preventing alcohol-related harm among adults;
Informing and raising awareness on the impact of alcohol.
It followed the (...)

Study Visit of new EU Member States NGOs to Brussels

Between the 20 and 23 November, EPHA organised a Study Visit to Brussels for health NGOs from New EU Member States.
The aim of the visit was to provide the participants with a better understanding of EU institutions and structures, to increase their knowledge of health-related policies at EU level and to develop their capacity to participate in European health networks and projects.
The study visit was organised in the framework of the EC supported project Building Public Health Community (...)

SPHERE Project Partners meeting

The SPHERE project partners met in Montreux, in Switzerland on the 15th of November, prior to the EUPHA 14th Conference on Public Health.
A partner meeting of the project SPHERE (Strengthening Public Health Research in the EU) was held on the 15th November in Montreux, a day before the EUPHA (European Public Health Association) conference.
The broad objective of SPHERE is to assist in creating an “European Public Health Research Area” by describing public health research at (...)

Action for Global health - a European NGO network

Officially launched on the 27th October 2006, this network gathers 15 European NGOs working on health and development issues. EPHA is one of the Brussels-based partners.
Background information about the project
Although not comprehensive, the Health Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) continue to offer the best catalyst to push for increased action to improve health in developing countries.
As commitments signed by donor countries, they are an effective advocacy tool. With half of the (...)

Conference on Natural medicines in Europe

The Association of Natural Medicines in Europe - ANME organises a conference on the situation of natural medicines in the European Union context. It takes place in Frankfurt (Germany) on the 11 November 2006.
While discussions on health care costs and reimbursement structures are going on, while regulations on pharmaceuticals are being released, some of them threatening the test certificate of natural drugs, CAM is neglected in the debate on health policy.
But if health systems are to (...)

Conference on health promotion and colloboration in Latvia

On the 30 May 2006, EPHA organised a conference on health promotion in Liepaja, Latvia.
The conference was the main activity of Health Promotion week in Liepaja and the follow-up activity of Conference in Riga.
During the first part of the conference, experts from Latvian Union of Municipalities, Latvian Centre of Infectology and State Health Promotion Agency held presentations on promotion issues. The main idea was that health promotion includes - education, information, awareness (...)

EMIP Project

The EU-funded EMIP project - Implementation of mental health promotion and prevention policies and strategies in EU member states and applicant countries - brings together eight European networks and 12 national partners committed to sharing models of good practice on mental health promotion and prevention.
Overall objective
to build and support good practice in the development and effective implementation of mental health promotion and prevention policy and strategy in the Member States (...)

The SPHERE Project - Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe

This EU supported project aims to examine the ways and means by which research priorities in the field of public health at the European level can be identified.
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 (...)

Alcohol Policy Network in the Context of a Larger Europe: Bridging the Gap

A second phase of the Bridging the Gap project is currently being negotiated with the European Commission. The leading partner of the second phase will be the National Public Health Institute of Slovenia.
The project was funded by the European Commission for the years 2004-2006. It includes partners in 30 European countries as well as the World Health Organization (European Office), the European Youth Forum, the European Public Health Alliance and the European Cultural Foundation.
The BtG (...)

EPHA submits project proposal for “ECHANT”: European Child and Adolescent Health and Well-Being Network

The European Commission - Health and Consumer Protection DG - launched its Call for Proposals 2006 with a deadline for applications of 19 May.
Children and young people are one of the priority areas.
The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) is an alliance of more than 100 non governmental and non for profit organisations working for health in Europe. We are currently leading a major EU funded project which will end up in December 2006 and we are involved in several other projects as (...)

Young people’s reproductive and sexual rights

EPHA is the Brussels-based partner of the project “SEXual Patients Rights Charter” (SEX-PARC) lead by the International Centre of Health Protection (HERA) based in Russia.
The project is funded under the European Commission Tacis Institution Building Partnership Programme (IBPP),
The main aim of the project is the development and adoption of a Charter of Rights of Sexual Patients for the promotion of sustainable health and social care system rendering the beneficiaries as (...)

VOICE Speed awards

The VOICE project of which EPHA is a partner has given its latest awards to two initiatives that could have positive and negative repercussions respectively on driving behaviour and the safety of all road users.
The positive award goes to the car lease company LeasePlan Nederland N.V. for offering in-car assistance to keep safe speeds and distances as part of the Belonitor project. The negative award has been given to the car rental company Sixt in Germany for glamorising speed through (...)

Two Voice Mobility awards to local communities

The Voice project has given two awards for local communities or projects dedicated to promote the needs of disabled persons and improving road safety around schools.
The Voice project has given a Mobility award to Neil Betteridge, as chairman and representative of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), for their work to promote the needs of disabled persons in the UK and to ensure that they have access to all modes of transport.
The second Voice Mobility award goes to (...)

Road Safety Award to a small town in England

The Voice project, of which EPHA is a partner, presented its annual award to promote good practice to protect vulnerable road users to Rob Tinlin, the mayor of Southen-on-Sea, on the Southern coast of England.
This award grants the efforts to promote road safety in the city. Mr Tinlin has particularly procured public-private partnership for investment in various infrastructure measures, including several designed for vulnerable road users.
Related awards
Road Safety award to car (...)

Road Safety Award to Administrations

The VOICE (Vulnerable Road Users Organisations in Cooperation across Europe) campaign headed by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and in which EPHA takes part, presented its awards for traffic law enforcement.
The EU member state administration with the best record is Finland, whilst the administration with the poorest record is Poland. These awards highlight the variable performance of EU member state Administrations in enforcing traffic laws and the effect this has on the (...)

What role for civil society in research?

Following the publication by the European Commission of its proposal for the Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7) (2007-2013) and the recent two FP6 calls for proposal targeting civil society, the role of civil society organisations must be significantly strenghtened in research.
Although there are a lot of concerns about the funding distribution in FP7, especially with regard to health, the other face of the debate focuses on the "war of evidence". How is defined sound and (...)

**Updated** Public Health and the EU: an overview (2007)

In 2007 EPHA commissioned an update of our 1995 publication "Public Health and the EU: an overview", now available in 20 languages, as part of the activities of our European project "EPHA’s project: Building the public health community across Europe".
The Executive Summaries can be downloaded at the bottom of the page.
"Public Health and the EU: an overview" is an introduction to the wide range of European Union (EU) activities that affect public health.
It aims to inform local, national (...)

European Mental Health Promotion Implementation - EMIP meeting: Creating a momentum for change, Tallinn, 22-23 September

Country partners and Consortium members of the project EMIP (Implementation of mental health promotion and prevention policies and strategies in EU member states and applicant countries) met in Tallinn on 22 and 23 September to discuss the results of the project.
The meeting was hosted by the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute and started with a session dedicated to sharing experiences from Consortium members.
It was highlighted that mental health promotion is beyond (...)

EMIP Project partners meeting, Tallinn, Estonia, 22-23 September

The country partners and Consortium members of the project EMIP (Implementation of mental health promotion and prevention policies and strategies in EU member states and applicant countries) will gather on 22 and 23 September in Tallinn, Estonia, for a final project meeting.
The project brings together eight European networks and twelve national partners committed to sharing models of good practice on mental health promotion and prevention of mental ill-health.
The final meeting in (...)

EMIP Response to the EC Green Paper on Mental Health

EMIP Response to the EC Green Paper on Mental Health
The [EMIP project->EMIP partners have submitted a response to the EC Green Paper "Promoting the Mental Health of the Population. Towards a Strategy on Mental health for the European Union."
The project - Implementation of mental health promotion and prevention policies and strategies in EU member states and applicant countries - brings together 8 European networks and 12 national partners committed to sharing models of good practice on (...)

ActionAid International recruits a project assistant

ActionAid Interntational recruits a project assistant to work for the European Network for Global health, in which EPHA takes part.
With partners in Italy, Germany, France, Brussels, UK and Spain, the European Network for Global Health is a large and exciting new project which can make a real difference to the lives of people in developing countries.
ActionAid International is seeking a Project Assistant to work in close proximity with the Project Manager and the Finance & Monitoring (...)