EPHA Members News

EPHA member Mental Health Europe is recruiting a Social Policy Officer to support their policy development and advocacy work in the field of social inclusion of people with mental health problems and social policies in general. Candidates should ideally speak English and French and interviews will take place in January. Details and a job description are available here.

EPHA member the Royal College of Physicians is holding a joint one-day conference with the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies to commemorate 50 years since the publication of the RCP report on Smoking and Health in 1962 and consider what is still to be done to prevent smoking and reduce smoking-related disease The conference, which will look into a variety of aspects of smoking and health including cessation, prevention, the impact of passive smoking and smoke-free environments is aimed (...)

The Thalassaemia International Federation is delighted to announce the organisation of the 3rd Pan-European Conference on Haemoglobinopathies and Rare Anaemias, to be held in Limassol, Cyprus on 24-26 October 2012. The Conference is being organised in cooperation with the Cyprus Ministry of Health, under the auspices of President Demetris Christofias, the Cyprus and European Haematology Societies, and the office of the Cyprus Presidency. It will be co-chaired by the Minister of Health (...)

Follow the retirement of Mary Van Dievel, EPHA member Mental Health Europe are looking for a new Director from 1 January 2011. The job details and application can be found here. Related EPHA articles Mental Health Europe priorities for the Polish Presidency Mental Health Europe - Santé Mentale Europe (MHE-SME)

EPHA member ESICM, is looking for its Research Team Leader: a dynamic, self-motivated individual preferably with experience in clinical trials and who will manage efficiently the Research department. The individual will be responsible for managing the Research department and team and will Respond/act on upper-management direction. In addition to coordinating ESICM research projects/awards with their practical and administrative aspects, this person will also organise meetings and events (...)

Mental Health Europe, an EPHA member, has released its call for action to the Polish presidency of the EU, which chairs the Council of Ministers until December 2011. Mental Health Europe urges the Polish presidency to take into consideration the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable and to use their leadership to strengthen the social dimension of the Europe 2020 strategy. They therefore call on the Polish Presidency to: 1. Work towards the implementation of the European Pact for (...)

EPHA member the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) is looking for a full-time Web Content Manager/Copy Editor. The vacancy is for a permanent contract following a 6 months trial period. The start date is immediately. ESICM is looking for a dynamic, self-motivated English Mother Tongue individual with experience and skills in web/social networks content management, writing and editing for the web/social networks, graphic design and site management. Please find the full (...)

Please find below an activity update that EPHA member the Slovenian Coalition for Tobacco Control and Public Health (SCTC) would like to share with the membership. In November last year, the Slovenian Ministry of Public Administration granted the SCTC funding to continue to coordinate the "NGOs Protect Our Health" Project which EPHA helped promote at a jointly organised conference in March 2010. This will allow the SCTC to continue its work in the field of tobacco control legislation and (...)

Beginning 2011, the United Nations have launched a consultation whose objective is to prepare a report on the realization of the right to health of older persons, including the main existing challenges and best practices. AGE Platform Europe decided to submit a contribution to highlight state of play and debates at EU level. AGE underlines as well the progress made on long-term care issues and fight against elder abuse, notably through European Project like Eustacea (a European strategy to (...)

The recommendations of the European Project "“Violence against women at work… Let’s talk about it! The mental health impacts of violence and harassment against women at work” are now available. This project was jointly implemented by nine organisations, including EPHA member - Mental Health Europe (MHE-SME) From January 2009 to December 2010, Mental Health Europe, an EPHA member, participated, together with 8 other organisations, to the European Project (...)