Our third #newsletter is out! 📢 Stay updated with the most significant legal and policy developments on health emergencies and legal preparedness from the past months. Check it out now! 👉minisiti.santannapisa.it/app/uploads/si…

A review of the work carried out over the past two years by the #EU's Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) has been recently published 👉eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…

In European countries, the public health workforce working on #infectiousdiseases increased during the #pandemic. However, only some countries retained this additional staff beyond the end of the pandemic. Check ECDC study available at ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/…!

#Event: 'Preparedness and response to serious cross-border threats to health in the European Union – the ECDC role', Monday, April 28th 2025 (11.00-13.00). Room M, Via Andreatta 8, Università di Bologna. Link to join the seminar online here: help-prin.it/eventi/! #HELP #PRIN #health

🇪🇺🎙️👉Join our #event 'Preparedness and response to serious cross-border threats to health in the #EuropeanUnion – the ECDC role' with Stefania De Angelis, epidemiologist and public health expert at ECDC, and Prof. Giacomo Di Federico! Teams link: minisiti.santannapisa.it/app/uploads/si…

The #EU is strengthening its preparedness for a potential flu pandemic. A new joint procurement contract, signed by the European Commission, through HERA, offers 17 countries the possibility to purchase up to 27,403,200 pandemic influenza vaccine doses👉ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

WHO and the US. Tedros: US Withdrawal from WHO is a ‘Lose-Lose’. The US' reduction of its extensive global health aid and assistance programs represents the most significant disruption to global health funding in recent history. More info at healthpolicy-watch.news/tedros-us-with…

The World Health Organization has published two important documents in the past weeks: 📷 World health statistics 2025: Monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals (iris.who.int/.../381418/978…...) 📷 WHO Results Report 2024 (apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_f…)

European Parliament and EU government negotiators reached an agreement on new legislation ensuring #availability of crisis-relevant products, such as vaccines or chips, during #emergencies. 👉europarl.europa.eu/news/it/press-…

Join our event "THE FUTURE OF THE RULE OF LAW IN THE EU IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL DEMOCRATIC DECLINE", with Prof. Giacomo Di Federico and Prof. Laurent Pech! 📅 6 June 2025, 4 PM, Reale Collegio di Spagna. Organised by University of Bologna! #EU #legalpreparedness

The EU Commission joins the Global Coalition on medical countermeasures for neglected diseases! On the margins of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Commission signed an agreement to join the Global Coalition on neglected diseases 👉ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

If you are interested in #NCDs and the #EU, join the event "Malattie non trasmissibili e Unione europea: i disturbi del comportamento alimentare", which will take place on 19 June 2025! (language: Italian)! More info below.

The first trilogue negotiations between #EU lawmakers over the reform to Europe’s #pharmaceutical legislation will take place tomorrow, after member states finally struck an agreement on their position. More info: consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…

The #WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin enhances #disease #surveillance worldwide. Just over 3 years after its inauguration, the Hub now supports over 150 countries in detecting health threats👉who.int/news/item/17-0…

According to #WHO projections, global #investment in the sector could decline by 40 per cent in 2025, representing a reduction of approximately USD 10 billion from USD 25 billion in 2023. 🇮🇹 quotidianosanita.it/studi-e-analis… 🇬🇧 healthreporters.info/who-warns-of-a…

A few days ago, the European Commission launched a new #strategy to make Europe the most attractive place in the world for #lifesciences by 2030. Life sciences are central to our health, environment and economy. They drive innovation in medicine👉 research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/document/downl…

The Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG), met for the first time last week and adopted a tight schedule to achieve its key task: negotiating an annex to the Pandemic Agreement on a pathogen access and benefit sharing (PABS) system. healthpolicy-watch.news/new-body-adopt…

World Health Organization. Italy says “no” to amendments to #InternationalHealthRegulations, aligning with Trump's US. en.ilsole24ore.com/art/italy-reje…

“There will be another pandemic, and it will not be 100 years from now.” Dr. Abubakar, a professor of infectious diseases at University College London, issued this warning at a recent meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

The French delegation of the Greens/EFA group has urged the European Commission to block the planned destruction of €10 million worth of contraceptives funded by the now-defunct US aid agency USAID. euractiv.com/section/health…