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Tuesday 12 November, 13:30 – 17:00 Lisbon time (starting with network lunch at 12:30)


Organised by

European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)  and Joint Action on increasing the capacity of National Focal Points (NFPs) – NFP4Health

Background

To provide an answer, HaDEA and the Joint Action NFP4Health will bring together different actions funded under the EU4Health  programme. The focus is on prevention of non-communicable diseases, including cancer, and on vaccination; these are topic areas where there is sufficient scope and rationale for collaborative approaches and where evidence-informed policies or interventions can be expected to contribute to innovative, resilient, efficient and sustainable health systems. The session will explore the obstacles and enabling factors that determine the impact and success of such knowledge transfer, and how this can be supported by actions undertaken at a cross-country and national level.

Scope

Budgeted at EUR €5.3 billion for the period 2021-27, the EU4Health programme is the biggest investment that the EU has put forward to improve and foster health, protect people, strengthen health systems and establish a European Health Union.

In line with the Treaties and the role of the EU in public health, it complements both EU health policies, as well as the policies of the Member States. As per the programme regulation, it “should be a means of promoting actions in areas where there is a Union added value that can be demonstrated. Such actions should include, inter alia, strengthening the exchange of best practices between Member States, supporting networks for the sharing of knowledge or for mutual learning”.

Best practices are therefore one of the key tools employed by the programme to address common challenges in areas where proven interventions can add value.

The workshop will look at the way best practices are selected and then implemented, addressing the dimensions of uptake, transferability, scalability, impact and sustainability. In particular, the event will:

  1. Take stock of projects’ results achieved so far under EU4Health in the field of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) prevention, including cancer prevention and vaccination.
  2. Involve key co-funded actions to share their knowledge and experience on implementing best practices.
  3. Provide some early lessons learnt from the programme implementation relevant for future policy developments.
  4. Identify innovative approaches for non-communicable diseases/cancer prevention and vaccination.

Target audiences

Stakeholders of all levels in the health services and public health research community, knowledge brokering organizations, policymakers, managers and other decision makers in public health, and other relevant stakeholders and NGOs at national and European level.

Format

The workshop will have an interactive structure: panels of stakeholders who have been engaged in various EU-level initiatives, such as Joint Actions with Member States’ health authorities, EU-funded projects, flagship initiatives or other EU-wide collaborative actions, will engage in a dialogue with the audience and share their experience with the use of evidence, its transferability across different contexts and its uptake by policy makers.

The discussion will aim at presenting how the implementation of best practices can lead to better public health and give relevant feedback to policymakers, to ensure in turn their wider uptake and use, for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Programme

13:30 – 14:00Welcome and Introduction to the session Ana PEDROSO, Secretary-general, Portuguese Ministry of Health Marina ZANCHI, Director, European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) NFP Portugal, EU4Health National Focal Point (NFP) Michele CECCHINI, Head of Public Health, OECD
14:00 – 15:00Best practices implementation in the area of vaccination Chair: Agnes Mathieu-Mendes, Head of Unit, HaDEA A.2 Moderator: Raffaella Bucciardini, Director Health equity unit, Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Italy EUVABECO – Christos LIONIS, Professor Emeritus, University of Crete, Greece VAX-Action – Tiago CORREIA, Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Overcoming obstacles to vaccination – Emanuela CARTA, Senior Director, Verian Group Perch JA – Alexandre COBIGO, Project manager Prevention, InCA, France ECL – Wendy YARED, Association of European Cancer Leagues
15:00 – 15:30Coffee break
15:30-16:30Best practices implementation in the area of non-communicable disease prevention including cancer Chair: Florina TELEA, Head of Unit, HaDEA A1 Moderator: Apostolos Vantarakis, Health4EUkids coordinator, Professor of Public Health, University of Patras, Greece PreventNCD – Knut Inge KLEPP, Special Advisor, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway EAAD best – Ricardo GUSMAO, Professor, Instituto de Saúde Publica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal JA Implemental – Vasileia KONTE, Head Directorate of Services, Greek National Public Health Organisation, Greece JACARDI – Benedetta ARMOCIDA – Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Italy Care4Diabetes – Marta PISANO GONZALEZ – Consejeria de Salud, Principado de Asturias, Spain
16:30 – 17:00Concluding remarks Georgios MARGETIDIS, Head of Sector, HaDEA A1 Saverio STRANGES, President of the Section of Chronic Diseases, EUPHA NFP Italy  – EU4Health National Focal Point (NFP)

Registration

The pre-conference is financially supported and the registration fee is only EUR 20. Networking lunch and refreshments are included.