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EUHealthGov with Óscar Fernández: Navigating Regime Complexity in Global Health: The Role of the European Union

The EUHealthGov network is delighted to welcome Óscar Fernández on Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 12 noon GMT/13h CET for a work-in-progress discussion on the EU’s role in navigating regime complexity in Global Health. Although traditionally overlooked in European Studies, the EU’s impact in global health has begun to attract scholarly attention, particularly since the […]

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Summary: Sebastiano Lustig – The role of HERA in the EU Health Security Framework

EUHealthGov held its fifth Practitioner Perspective on 13 March 2025. We were delighted to host Sebastiano Lustig, Policy Coordinator for prevention, preparedness and response planning for medical countermeasures at the European Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA). A summary of the event is available on UACES’ Ideas on Europe website The recording of the

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EUHealthGov with Sebastiano Lustig: The role of HERA in the EU Health Security Framework

The EUHealthGov network is delighted to welcome Sebastiano Lustig on Thursday 13 March 2025 at 12 noon GMT/13h CET for a discussion on the role of the Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) in the EU Health Security Framework.   COVID-19 has given new impetus to the EU’s health security agenda. The most emblematic illustration

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Health Law and Governance in an Uncertain Europe

On Tuesday 5 November 2024, the EUHealthGov network held its second event. This one-day knowledge exchange workshop brought together academics, policymakers and practitioners to discuss health law and governance in the context of growing uncertainty and intertwined crises. The COVID-19 pandemic has not unfolded in isolation from other overlapping, interacting, and mutually reinforcing crises: from

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Scaling up vaccine manufacturing in Africa: The Team Europe Initiative

This year at the UACES Annual Conference in Trento, Pramiti Parwani (University of Amsterdam) presented her ongoing doctoral research on the legal and institutional frameworks in the EU and India determining access to vaccines. Her paper analysing the ‘Team Europe Initiative’ was part of the panel The EU as a Global Health Actor – Between

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Between a breeze and a storm of change: EU collective securitisation of COVID-19

This year at the UACES Annual Conference in Trento, Ricardo Pereira (Dublin City University) presented his ongoing doctoral research on EU securitisation of health. His paper was part of the panel The EU as a Global Health Actor – Between Securitisation and Cooperation, organised by the EUHealthGov network. His research aims to understand how the

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Summary: Health and the Belgian Presidency: Practitioner Perspectives from Gloria Ghéquière

EUHealthGov held its fourth Practitioner Perspective on 11th July 2024. We were delighted to host Gloria Ghéquière, Advisor in the Cabinet of the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, Frank Vandenbroucke, to discuss the work done on health by the Belgian Presidency of the European Council between January and June

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Practitioner Perspective with Gloria Ghéquière: ‘Health and the Belgian Presidency’

The EUHealthGov network is delighted to welcome Gloria Ghéquière on Thursday 11 July 2024 at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET to reflect on how health has featured within the Belgian presidency of the European Council between January and June 2024. The Belgian presidency’s term has involved important work on themes as diverse as global health,

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Summary: ‘The Political Determinants of Health and the European Union’, a Special Issue in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

On 25 April 2024 1-2.30pm BST, EUHealthGov hosted the launch of a Special Issue entitled ‘The Political Determinants of Health and the European Union’ forthcoming in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (Advance Publication available here). Read the full summary here, or watch the recording of the webinar below.

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