State Aid and healthcare: Some (re)starter questions after Casa Regina Apostolorum
Read the full blog post published on Ideas on Europe here.
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Summary: Putting Health on the Agenda: Practitioner Perspectives from Elizabeth Kuiper
EUHealthGov held its third Practitioner Perspective on 19th July 2023. We were delighted to host Elizabeth Kuiper, Associate Director and Head of the Social Europe and Well-being programme at the European Policy Centre (EPC) to discuss the evolving place of health on policy agendas between the COVID-19 pandemic and upcoming changes with a new Commission …
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Vignettes on EU health governance: A shared teaching and learning resource from the EUHealthGov network
On 20 and 21 April 2023, EUHealthGov held a 2-day workshop to discuss research and teaching on EU health policy and law. As part of the latter focus, we undertook an exercise to develop a collaborative, open access teaching resource. Our latest blog presents a series of vignettes describing topics or themes that might be taught …
Maastricht at 30: Exploring past, present, and future drivers of EU health integration
On 20th and 21st April 2023, EUHealthGov headed to Brussels for a 2-day workshop discussing research and teaching connected with EU health policy and law. The overarching theme of “Maastricht at 30” provided a useful starting-point to consider both aspects, with the emergence of EU health law and policy as a discipline in its own …
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Summary: EU Pharmaceutical Activity: Challenges Arising From The Pharmaceutical Strategy And Beyond
EUHealthGov started 2023 with its seventh quarterly seminar on 25th January – a roundtable on EU pharmaceutical activity which encompassed challenges from the much-awaited revisions to the EU pharmaceutical strategy and beyond. We were delighted to be joined by a range of experts to consider different aspects, notably solidarity and vulnerability in access to pharmaceuticals; …
What role for health promotion in the European Health Union?
So far, the European Health Union is largely focused on the necessary task of improving health security. A more comprehensive Health Union also needs to consider health promotion. But what does health promotion mean? Is it merely an instrument to nudge individual behaviours, or can it be more than that? A truly health-promoting Union requires …
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“Euro-ambivalence”, EU competition law, and national healthcare systems: How the UK parliament joined some of the dots with NHS reform
“We send the EU £350 million a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead” proved an effective – if misleading – slogan for the Leave campaign in the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership. While this may simply suggest a “very British” variety of Euroscepticism, its implications arguably prove further-reaching, with learning for other countries (and …
Summary: The Politics of Health Promotion in the EU, with Charlotte Godziewski
On 26 August 2022 EUHealthGov had the pleasure to host Dr Charlotte Godziewski (City, University of London) to discuss her new book, The Politics of Health Promotion in the European Union. Read the full summary here.
Tackling health inequalities: explaining variations in national health strategies in France, Portugal, and Switzerland
Read the full summary of Dr Chloé Bérut’s UACES 2022 presentation here.
Summary: Equitable and Green EU Public Health: Perspectives from Dorota Sienkiewicz
On 6 July 2022, EUHealthGov held its fifth online seminar. We had the pleasure to welcome Dorota Sienkiewicz, Senior Policy Coordinator at EuroHealthNet, for a practitioner perspective on the ‘triple-win’ approach for EU public health to combine action on climate, health, and social equity. Read the full summary here