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European Joint Action on Vaccination (EU-JAV) launched (04.09.2018)

The Joint Action is coordinated by France and is funded in part from the European Union's Health Programme with EUR 3,500,000 euro over three years (Daily News available in French only).

The Jury of the 2018 EU Health Award for NGOs working to prevent tobacco use has been appointed (21.08.2018)

The winners of the Award will be announced in November.

Call for expression of interest for the appointment of a chair and alternate chair of the board of appeal of the European Chemicals Agency (21.08.2018)

The purpose of this call for expression of interest is to allow the Commission to establish a list of candidates to be proposed to the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency. Applications must be submitted by 28 September, 12h:00 Brussels time.

Monitoring lung cancer burden in Europe (02.08.2018)

World Lung Cancer Day was held on 1 August. The annual event helps spread awareness about the impact of the disease on individuals and societies across the world.