- We are hiring! EFA Policy Adviser
- We are looking for an EU Policy Adviser (m/f) to start in June/July 2016 for one year period to cover partial absence of EFA policy lead. EFA is the European network of national patient organisation ...
- Parliamentarians got their allergies tested
- With 150 million Europeans currently affected by allergy and estimations alerting that by 2025 half of the European population will suffer from them, we have helped the Interest Group on Allergy and A ...
- Health prevention is a right (and a duty)!
- Last April 20th we were invited to represent the patients’ perspective a European Health Parliament panel on prevention and self-care, together with MEP Cristian Busoi (Romania, EPP), former Iris ...
- EU Conference on Chronic Diseases
- The European Commission Directorate General for Health (DG SANTE) organised on April the 21st, the conference “Towards better prevention and management of chronic diseases” where Commissioner for Heal ...
- Register to AirPROM final event
- AirPROM will end in June and partners are currently finalizing all activities and integrating the results. The latest AirPROM findings were discussed during the final partner meeting held in Leicest ...
- Bringing the patients’ perspective to the ERACoSysMED conference
- On the 5th of April, EFA Project Manager Giuseppe De Carlo attended in Bratislave the funders meeting of ERACoSysMed (the ERANET on System Medicine) as a representative of the Scientific Advisory Boar ...
- Register now for myAirCoach workshop
- The myAirCoach project is organizing on the 6th of September the Workshop on Mobile Healthcare for the Self-Management of Chronic Diseases and the Empowerment of Patients in Conjunction with MobileHCI ...
- A MUST READ: guide to involve patients in EU research
- The U-BIOPRED project has published “A short guide to successful patient involvement in EU-funded research”. The booklet was produced by the project’s Patient Input Platform, a group of asthma patient ...
- PRESS RELEASE: Young patients with asthma need more investment in technology and health literacy
- Young patients with asthma need more investment in technology and health literacy Brussels, 28 April, 2016 – BEFORE WORLD ASTHMA DAY. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood. Today, 3 ...
- 48 tobacco additives could be banned in the European Union
- The European Commission is due to develop by May 2016 a priority list of at least 15 additives contained in cigarettes and roll your own tobacco that will be prohibited. The list is part of the Tobacc ...
- Patients will have more input in myAirCoach project
- Since February several representatives from myAirCoach Advisory Patient Forum will be more intensively involved in the different myAirCoach Workpackages that deal with the conception of an asthma mana ...
- EARIP: Building the investment case for asthma research and development
- The last EARIP partner meeting celebrated in London last 23rd of February served to present the 15 most important asthma research priorities for future investment. The identified priorities relate to ...
- We need better research for better health outcomes
- On 21st of January the European Commission's Scientific Panel for Health (SPH) presented its initial findings for future health research at the European Parliament to a wide range of stakeholders. T ...
- € 3 million prize for clean air materials
- At this very moment, around 90% of the European population living in cities is exposed to air pollution levels exceeding the World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality guidelines levels. Average li ...
- Patients’ views on the Medical Devices Regulation
- On the 22nd of February, Senior EU Policy Advisor Roberta Savli met with the assistant of Mrs Wilmot MEP (rapporteur of the medical devices regulation in the European Parliament) together with the Eur ...
- EU Member States should accept stricter air pollution levels
- Last year, with the great support of EFA members, we managed to achieve some significant changes regarding the adoption of stricter air pollution limits under the National Emissions Ceilings Directive ...
- Test your allergies at the European Parliament
- The European Parliament Interest Group on Allergy and Asthma will gather on the 26th of April to discuss how to improve allergy prevention and care in the European Union. The meeting will follow the E ...
- Need for increased investment in health
- European population in good health is value in itself and also one of the prerequisite for the EU’s economic growth, which is one of the main goal of the Europe 2020 strategy. Although health is a pre ...
- Public Health Priorities of the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the EU
- The presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among the EU member states every 6 months. As of 1st January 2016 the Netherlands holds the Presidency and will hold this post until ...
- EFA joins European Commission Working Group on mHealth assessment guidelines
- Mobile Health is an emerging and rapidly developing field: with around 100,000 mHealth apps currently available across multiple platforms on the global market. It has the potential to play a part in t ...