EPHA Presentations

On 15 April, Jessica Imbert gave a presentation on the Open Method of Coordination.
The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is an intergovernmental means of governance in the European Union, based on the voluntary cooperation of its member states. Initially used for social protection issues, the European Council has decided to extend the OMC to health and longterm care.
The OMC is an instrument which involves ’soft law’ and the setting of targets and indicators on health. This is (...)

On 21 February 2008, Jessica Imbert made a presentation on the Relevance and mechanisms of EPHA and on its activities which affect urban health at the North West Health Brussels office.
Jessica Imbert made a presentation on the activities and mechanisms of EPHA particulalry those with relevance to urban health at the Urban Health meeting in Brussels on 21 February 2008.
The event was organised by the North West Health Institute.
Her PowerPoint presentation can be (...)

Tamsin Rose made a presentation on recent EU policy trends and the better regulation process at the EC Law and Nordic Alcohol policy meeting in Oslo on 15 December 2005.
The meeting, organised by ACTIS (Norwegian Policy Network on Alcohol and Drugs) reviewed recent cases from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on pharmaceuticals, advertising and gambling.

Tamsin Rose made a presentation and ran a workshop on "Using information and communication to reduce inequalities" at the WHO Regions for Health Network Annual meeting in Katowice, Poland on 24-25 November 2005.
The presentation, which can be downloaded here, explored how the practice of health promotion has moved away from centralised, single message campaigns towards social marketing which involves targeted messages and a variety of media based on the needs and aspirations of the target (...)

Tamsin Rose made a presentation about “Lobbying, the role of NGOs and communication strategies” at a Training Course on the European Internal Market and the Health Sector, which took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 26 to 30 October 2005. The event was organised by the Centre for European Programmes of the American University in Bulgaria.
Her PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded (...)

Tamsin Rose, EPHA’s General Secretary, gave a presentation as part of a two days conference titled "Social Policy Agenda 2006-2010: What Future for European Social Policy?" organised by the Social Platform on 20-21 October 2004 in Brussels.
Speakers included ministers, members of the European Parliament, government officials, members of the Commission agencies, Commission officials and NGO representatives.
The first day of the conference, the Social Platform presented two main documents: (...)

A major international conference was organised in the Hague, Netherlands on 7-9 September 2004. Entitled Shaping the EU Health Community: Balancing Health, Social Development and Internal Market, it was organised by the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare (NIZW), an EPHA member.
EPHA General Secretary, Tamsin Rose, and Fiona Godfrey, ERS Policy Advisor, were speakers at a three-hour parallel workshop on Public health and the internal market organised by EPHA. Please find their (...)

EPHA presentation on EU institutions and health to a meeting of the network of community self-help groups, organised in Brussels on 5 June 2004.

EPHA General Secretary, Tamsin Rose, made a presentation on the EU treaty reform negotiations to the network on EU law and health in Stockholm on 8 June 2004.

EPHA General Secretary, Tamsin Rose, gave a presentation to on EU tobacco legislation to a workshop at the Eurocare conference "Bridging the Gap" on alcohol related harm in Europe.