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Health-EU Newsletter
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Your gateway to trustworthy information on public health
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In this edition
- 05 July 2018
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Twitter Health
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Editorial
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Health and Social issues – always entwined, and now funded through the same programme
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Ms Andriana Sukova, Deputy Director-General from DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion discusses with Mr Martin Seychell, Deputy Director-General for health from DG Health and Food Safety, the proposal for the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) Regulation, adopted by the Commission on 30 May 2018 with the intention of building a more resilient and inclusive 'Social Europe' for all citizens.
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Key figures
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News from the EU
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Get the flash report of the Health Security Committee meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance
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The Committee held an audio meeting on 18 June 2018. The Directorate General for Health and Food Safety participated, reminding Member States of the importance of careful surveillance of communicable diseases.
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New self-assessment tool launched to gauge preparedness for public health emergencies
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has launched the Health Emergency Preparedness Self-Assessment tool to support countries in improving their level of public health emergency preparedness.
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Interested in joining the Committee for Advanced Therapies to represent patients’ associations or clinicians?
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The Commission has published a call for expressions of interest for representatives of patients’ organisations and clinicians to join the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Advanced Therapies as members and alternates. Deadline: 18 July 2018.
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Forthcoming events
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EuroScience Open Forum (Toulouse, France, 9-14 July 2018)
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Visit the EU booth to find out about funding opportunities under ‘Horizon 2020’ at this event, the largest interdisciplinary science meeting in Europe. A free half-day satellite event on 9 July is also open to EU project coordinators, future applicants and other forum delegates.
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World Hepatitis Day (28 July 2018)
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This year's event takes the theme of 'Find the Missing Millions'. Worldwide, 300 million people are unaware that they have viral hepatitis. Without finding and getting them to care, millions will suffer and lives will be lost.
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EU Press Releases
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Commission updates surveillance list on communicable diseases
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The Commission has adopted an Implementing Decision on the list of communicable diseases and related special health issues as well as relevant case definitions to be monitored through the EU’s epidemiological surveillance network.
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Joint Action on Health Inequalities kicks off on 21-22 June 2018 in Luxembourg
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Health Commissioner Andriukaitis launched the first meeting of "Health Equity in Europe", which includes eight work packages to promote, design and implement concrete actions advancing greater equity in health outcomes and reducing inter-country differences.
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Reinforced EU/US collaboration on medicines and tobacco
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The bilateral regulatory dialogue between EU and US allowed the strategic partners to review their ongoing cooperative initiatives, discuss strategic priorities for the coming years and further strengthen the continuous close collaboration with specific action in the field of pharmaceuticals.
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New publications
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Ad-hoc technical meeting under the Pharmaceutical Committee on shortages of medicines
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Read the presentations and background documents from this 25 May 2018 meeting.
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Council conclusions on healthy nutrition for children
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