The EU Cardiovascular Health Plan presents a crucial opportunity to save lives and reduce healthcare costs by making healthy, ...

Our Director General, Dr Milka Sokolovic has signed the Healthy Indoor Air Global Pledge and will speak at Showcase Event on ...

EPHA and partners remain committed to dialogue and practical solutions that safeguard civic space, ensure legal certainty, ...

On brake pollution, conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars mainly use disc brakes to slow the car down, which emits particle pollution. In contrast, EVs use “regenerative braking” as it ...

21 October 2020, Brussels – Air pollution costs the average European city resident €1,276 per year, according to the largest study of its kind. Though Bucharest in Romania tops the Europe chart for ...

Achieving deep reductions in farm antibiotics use will require widespread changes in animal husbandry practices towards higher animal welfare, argues a new paper written for EPHA. On 28 January 2022, ...

Food environments shape what food we buy and eat. Food environments are the physical, economic, political and socio-cultural contexts in which people engage with the food system to make their ...

On May 22, the European Commission adopted a Communication on the European Health Union. This document, presented by the Commissioner for Health (DG SANTE), Stella Kyriakides, highlights the ...

Although it is unclear by whom the term ‘medical deserts’ was first introduced, it appears to have been progressively discussed since the early 2000s. Especially over the last decade, it has become a ...

Guest article by Johanna Schima (Vice President & Head of EU Team), Make Mothers Matter ...

Dementia is one of the most pressing public health challenges facing Europe. Affecting over 9 million people in Europe, dementia is a progressive, neurodegenerative condition that worsens over time, ...