SEEHN has been established in 2001 as a health component of the Stability Pact Social Cohesion Initiative with the aim to bring people together across borders to improve health in the whole region. The cooperation has been started by 9 SEE countries, the Council of Europe and the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Transition of the Stability Pact process, to the new form of the Regional Cooperation with establishment of the Regional Cooperation Council, and the perspective for further EU enlargement, created a new environment for developing a closer cooperation between SANCO and the network.

The partners are:
Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, fYRoM, Moldova, Montenegro, and Serbia.
The donor countries: Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland.

Areas of regional actions are:

• Enhancing social cohesion through strengthening community mental health services in SEE,
• Strengthening communicable diseases surveillance and response in SEE,
• Strengthening food safety and nutrition services in SEE,
• Public health capacity building for strengthening tobacco control in SEE,
• Increasing regional self-sufficiency in relation to safer blood and blood components,
• Establishing regional networks and systems for the collection and exchange of social and health information
• Strengthening national capacities for improving maternal and neonatal health in SEE,
• Strengthening public health services

Project links

• Communicable diseases surveillance and response
• Food safety and nutrition
• Improving maternal and neonatal health
• Mental health
• Tobacco control