In the face of an unprecedented public health catastrophe in Gaza, three leading European and international public health organisations – the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the European ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Europe has made important strides in updating its ambient air quality rules and building law, but the places where we spend 90% of our lives still lack a dedicated, harmonised EU framework for indoor ...

Vehicle emissions are a major source of air pollution in Europe, contributing to chronic respiratory and cardiovascular illness, pregnancy complications, lost productivity, and reduced quality of life ...

The emergence of COVID-19 as a public health emergency by the World Health Organization has led to a number of precautionary measures such as quarantines, social distancing or in some cases total ...

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, ...

Europe’s population is ageing – by 2100, almost one in three EU citizens will be aged 65 or over [1]. Longer lives and higher life expectancy is a testament to modern medicine and the advances we have ...

The emergence and continuous spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to public health. International actors, the European Union (EU), governments and civil society are stressing ...

Following the so-called «migration crisis» over the last five years, the EU has chosen to perceive migration as a threat, and has focused its efforts on securing its borders, increasingly depending on ...

The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) deeply regrets the European Commission’s decision to eliminate operating grants for civil society from the EU4Health 2025 Work Programme. This marks a ...