March 28, 2022 Europe Event

Geneva Health Forum "Covid-19 Pandemic and Environmental Emergency: Reinventing Global Health in Times of Global Change"

Geneva Health Forum, 3rd to 5th May 2022: "Covid-19 Pandemic and Environmental Emergency: Reinventing Global Health in Times of Global Change"
 
The Geneva Health Forum (GHF) brings us together around major global health issues. It gives a voice to actors from the field and bridges them with policy-makers present in Geneva. It gives visibility to innovative, accessible and sustainable practices and tools and to important initiatives. After more than 15 years of existence, the GHF has become a crucial event in the field of global health.
 
For its 9th edition, which will take place from 3rd to 5th May 2022, #GHF2022 will address crucial issues for our future. Under the theme “Covid-19 Pandemic and Environmental Emergency: Reinventing Global Health in Times of Global Changes”, the GHF will help us learn the lessons from the Covid-19 crisis and better understand the impact of environmental degradation on human health.
 
Indeed, the Covid-19 ...

Sept. 20, 2022 Europe, Global Event

EHFG 2022: A moonshot for a true European Health Union. If not now, when?

Under the patronage of the Austrian Federal President, Alexander Van der Bellen, the European Health Forum Gastein will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2022 and take stock of the substantial accomplishments in public health over the last quarter century. At the same time, we will look forward and discuss the challenges and policy options for action urgently needed across sectors, borders, and disciplines at this watershed moment for health, security, and solidarity. This is the window of opportunity to co-create a true European Health Union! “Building forward better” requires fundamental transformation of the way our societies operate – and this can only be achieved through peace in Europe, supported by political will, collaboration, and unity.

A MOONSHOT FOR A TRUE EUROPEAN HEALTH UNION – IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

Only by shooting for the moon and leaving “business as usual” firmly in the past do we stand a chance of succeeding in our ...

Sept. 22, 2023 Europe Publication

Health systems in crisis: Countering shockwaves and fatigue (Eurohealth)

This Eurohealth special issue provides a pre-reader for the 2023 European Health Forum Gastein, a key platform for health policy exchange, bringing together stakeholders and decision-makers from the public and private sector, civil society, and science and academia. The 2023 conference will facilitate discussion on how to ride out the current shockwaves and explore how crises can help catalyse the development of new approaches to health system problems.