Air pollution is the first environmental health priority in Europe
European Member States have adopted a Declaration of the Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health that sets priorities and actions for implementation...
An Indoor Air Quality Certificate to be discussed at the European Parliament
Patients need to be informed about the air we breathe indoors and this need might be included in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive,...
Health research in a connected and participative Society
EFA co-chaired with the European Commission a session in the 2nd Annual forum of the Horizon 2020 Scientific Panel for Health, organized by the European...
'Patients experiences are helpful for policy’ says EFA President at EAACI Congress
EFA President Mikaela Odemyr spoke at the EAACI EU Policy Stakeholder lunch celebrated on the 19 June during the EAACI Congress that took place in Helsinki...
Putting Air Quality at the core of the EU Urban Agenda
EFA and Allergy UK attended the First Stakeholder Workshop of the Urban Partnership for Air Quality , that took place at London’s City Hall 13 June.
The...
How to make health data analysis patient centered?
On the 7th June, EFA Isabel Proaño presented at the event "How to create an ecosystem which unlocks the full potential of health data?", organised by...
Steps to make a tobacco free world by 2040
On May 25-26, EFA participated at International Conference on Tobacco Control 2017 held in Athens and organised by our partner ENSP (European Network for...
ERS presidential summit – Research last findings on personalized treatments and medicines
Daniela Morghenti, EFA EU policy adviser, participated at the ERS Annual Presidential Summit hosted at Ghent University on the 13th -14th of June, where...
A transformative agenda for asthma research in Europe
EFA, together with the European Asthma Research and Innovation Partnership (EARIP) partners elaborated a paper setting out what should be the European...
myAirCoach project is at its final stages
myAirCoach is in a crucial stage and all partners are intensifying their efforts to deliver the innovative mHealth tool that will improve the quality...
Clinical Data: key to the understanding and efficacy of treatments
Systems medicine is a novel approach based on computer models which, by analyzing a large amount of clinical data, have the potential to improve the understanding...
Smart buildings should be healthy for people
We spend up to 90% of our live indoor, are we healthy breathing inside our homes, offices, schools, sport centers or shopping malls?
Smart buildings can...
Finnish Allergy Week: Do you wash your new clothes before the first use?
EFA Member, the Finnish Allergy and Asthma Federation organized its yearly campaign, Allergy Week, in April. This year the campaign theme was chemicals...
Do children in healthy class rooms perform better?
Almedalen Week in July is an important date in the calendar as it is a meeting point in Sweden for all those looking to discuss important and topical social...
Ensure Universal Health Coverage for All by 2030
The alarming figures from the latest report from the Commission and the OECD ‘Health at Glance’, show that a substantial patient population is...
EFA elected to the Global Asthma and Allergy Patients’ Platform (GAAPP) Board
EFA Deputy Director Roberta Savli was elected as second Vice-President to the Global Asthma and Allergy Patients’ Platform (GAAPP) during the last annual...
EFA 2020 - The future of allergy, asthma and COPD patients Europe
Updating and upgrading EFA priorities 2020. AGM, Florence, 22May 2017
Stanimir Hasurdjiev, Patient Access Partnership PACT and European Patient’s Forum...
EFA Patients best practices
EFA Patients best practices
As an alliance of 42 patient associations, we can coordinate our strengths by understanding what are the successful stories...
EFA 2017 AGM: a new Member and a new Board
From the 21st to the 23rd May, our family of allergy, asthma and COPD patients met for EFA’s 2017 Annual General Meeting in Florence. We approved and...
Healthy buildings means less asthma and allergy
On May 31st we brought the patient perspective to the Healthy Building Day conference at the European Parliament. The event was organised to discuss with...