Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧

Op-ed: Health policy needs an EU framework to make meaningful change Covid-19 showed that short-term fixes aren’t enough. The EU must develop a cohesive health policy that strengthens systems and reduces inequalities...

🇪🇺Health once again being sidelined in EU

‘The pandemic rightly placed health at the centre of the EU agenda and encouraged the creation of the largest-ever #EUHealth budget of €5.3bn. But we are now witnessing a troubling reversal’

Romana Jerkovic MEP

www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...

Op-ed: Health policy needs an EU framework to make meaningful change Covid-19 showed that short-term fixes aren’t enough. The EU must develop a cohesive health policy that strengthens systems and reduces inequalities...

🇪🇺Health once again being sidelined in EU

‘The pandemic rightly placed health at the centre of the EU agenda and encouraged the creation of the largest-ever #EUHealth budget of €5.3bn. But we are now witnessing a troubling reversal’

Romana Jerkovic MEP

www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...

📣 2 months to go: #Solidarity #HealthEquity #PublicHealth at 2025 European Health Forum (Gastein) #EHFG2025

The shocking hit film about overworked nurses that’s causing alarm across Europe A Swiss film about a nurse pushed to her limits one night is being praised for the picture it paints of treacherously underfunded healthcare. The director talks about the ‘heart-pounding’ story that i...

The shocking hit film about overworked nurses that’s causing alarm across Europe

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

A war on science: Kennedy’s slash-and-burn approach to pu... The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of Trump’s ruthless health secretary

🇺🇸 War on #science: The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of #Trump’s ruthless health secretary #RFKJr

“Once #PublicHealth becomes politicised, then it’s game over. There’s just no way to come back from that”

@theobserveruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Two sheep grazing on the hillside over a misty stretch of the South Downs looking towards the Rampion Windfarm at sea

The view from Bury Hill all the way to the coast.

A stunning bit of South Downs magic courtesy of Stuart Williams.

#SouthDowns #WeekendVibes

Gazans tell BBC of air drop fears as aid agencies call plan 'grotesque distraction' - live updates Israel has said foreign nations will be able to air drop supplies into Gaza as international pressure mounts in the face of widespread starvation.

🇵🇸 #Gaza #Famine: Gazans tell BBC of air drop fears as aid agencies call plan 'grotesque distraction'

#Malnutrition worsens in Gaza as aid agencies criticise Israeli aid air drop plan

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

A brilliant man and a public health icon. Rest In Peace

Generating opposition to universal health care policies in the United States: An analysis of private health industry advertising on Meta platforms In 2019, the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future (PAHCF), a private health industry lobby group, launched a campaign across Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram) to generate opposition to univ...

A new study shows that a lobbying group for the private health insurance industry used Meta platforms to sow doubt about universal healthcare.

Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.

Gaza latest: 'We are not close to famine, we are living it,' says doctor as UN warns of 'dire' crisis The UN's humanitarian agency warns only a

🇵🇸 'We're not close to #famine, we're living it', doctor in #Gaza says.

"The path to aid is the path to death. It’s a treacherous road. It's a one-way ticket in some cases."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

I still feel like core funding for underweight voices is part of democracy. And feel even more strongly that this is a governance issue, to be settled across the budget, not killing little health NGOs while nurturing green giants. #cross.

I'm a doctor who worked in Gaza — and I'm disgusted at Kallas As doctors who have worked in Gaza, we went to Brussels to urge immediate action. How to find the words to convey the anger and disappointment as I listened to Kaja Kallas announce recently that the EU will do absolutely nothing in response to the spiralling situation in Gaza.

As doctors who have worked in Gaza, we went to Brussels to urge immediate action. How to find the words to convey the anger and disappointment as I listened to Kaja Kallas announce recently that the EU will do absolutely nothing in response to the spiralling situation in Gaza.

2025 EU4Health Work Programme 2025 EU4Health Work Programme

🇪🇺 2025 #EU4Health work plan finally published:

#NGOs to lose operational funding and #healthpromotion and #diseaseprevention to receive the smallest share of budget.

health.ec.europa.eu/publications...

Church leaders return with ‘broken hearts’ after rare Gaza visit The Latin and Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Jerusalem describing starving people not "batting an eyelid" at the sound of bombing.

🇵🇸 Church leaders: “This is humiliation that is hard to bear when you see it with your own eyes. It is morally unacceptable and unjustifiable."

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch, Theophilos III, said his Church would "stand in solidarity" with "the whole people of #Gaza".

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Church leaders return with ‘broken hearts’ after rare Gaza visit The Latin and Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Jerusalem describing starving people not "batting an eyelid" at the sound of bombing.

🇵🇸 Church leaders: “This is humiliation that is hard to bear when you see it with your own eyes. It is morally unacceptable and unjustifiable."

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch, Theophilos III, said his Church would "stand in solidarity" with "the whole people of #Gaza".

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Commission risks legal breach over NGO funding cliff, MEPs warn von der Leyen Health NGOs say partnership agreements were signed with the Commission and not honored.

🇪🇺 #EU4Health funding crisis: A breach of law, trust and democracy?

The European Commission may be breaking the law by withholding funds from health #NGOs without explanation, 12 Members of the European Parliament have warned President Ursula von der Leyen

www.politico.eu/article/comm...

Commission risks legal breach over NGO funding cliff, MEPs warn von der Leyen Health NGOs say partnership agreements were signed with the Commission and not honored.

🇪🇺 #EU4Health funding crisis: A breach of law, trust and democracy?

The European Commission may be breaking the law by withholding funds from health #NGOs without explanation, 12 Members of the European Parliament have warned President Ursula von der Leyen

www.politico.eu/article/comm...

⏰ Deadline 18th July: A great job opportunity in one of the leading not-for-profit health NGOs Brussels ⏰

"Silenced by snobbery”: from facing eviction to influencing government policy, one person’s fight to expose structural inequality Dominic juggles life as a single dad, community researcher, and author. He has faced eviction, food insecurity, and... Read More

"Silenced by snobbery”: from facing eviction to influencing government policy, one person’s fight to expose structural inequality

Inspirational story of community action on #HealthInequalities #SocialInequalities #SocialJustice

@eurohealthnet.bsky.social

eurohealthnet-magazine.eu/silenced-by-...

Inside the trillion dollar plan to replace aid with ‘sin taxes’ in the developing world A 50 per cent increase in the price of alcohol, cigarettes, and sugary drinks could plug the gap left by retreating foreign donors

WHO plan to replace aid with ‘sin taxes’ in the developing world

A 50% increase in the price of #alcohol, #cigarettes, and #SugaryDrinks could plug the gap left by retreating foreign donors and prevent more than 50 million premature deaths over the next 50 years

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

🔎A new study highlights how AI chatbots can be manipulated to deliver dangerous health disinformation, raising serious concerns about the readiness of large language models (LLMs) for public use.

👉 eurac.tv/9Y9Q

#AI4Trust

[Public Projects Content]

"Silenced by snobbery”: from facing eviction to influencing government policy, one person’s fight to expose structural inequality Dominic juggles life as a single dad, community researcher, and author. He has faced eviction, food insecurity, and... Read More

"Silenced by snobbery”: from facing eviction to influencing government policy, one person’s fight to expose structural inequality

Inspirational story of community action on #HealthInequalities #SocialInequalities #SocialJustice

@eurohealthnet.bsky.social

eurohealthnet-magazine.eu/silenced-by-...

⏰ Deadline 18th July: A great job opportunity in one of the leading not-for-profit health NGOs Brussels ⏰

Inside the trillion dollar plan to replace aid with ‘sin taxes’ in the developing world A 50 per cent increase in the price of alcohol, cigarettes, and sugary drinks could plug the gap left by retreating foreign donors

WHO plan to replace aid with ‘sin taxes’ in the developing world

A 50% increase in the price of #alcohol, #cigarettes, and #SugaryDrinks could plug the gap left by retreating foreign donors and prevent more than 50 million premature deaths over the next 50 years

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Outrage builds over plan to force all Gazans to southern city Critics denounce a plan by Israel's defence minister to relocate all Palestinians in Gaza to a small area in the south.

🇵🇸 #Gaza: “a blueprint for a concentration camp"

Outrage builds over plan to force all Gazans to southern city

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Outrage builds over plan to force all Gazans to southern city Critics denounce a plan by Israel's defence minister to relocate all Palestinians in Gaza to a small area in the south.

🇵🇸 #Gaza: “a blueprint for a concentration camp"

Outrage builds over plan to force all Gazans to southern city

www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣 Registration open for 2025 European Health Forum @gasteinforum.bsky.social

#Solidarity #Inequalities #PublicHealth

🗣️ With @who.int
@eurohealthnet.bsky.social
@carocostongs.bsky.social
@obshealth.bsky.social
@ecdc.europa.eu
@mentalhealtheurope.bsky.social
@feantsa.bsky.social

www.ehfg.org

📣 Registration open for 2025 European Health Forum @gasteinforum.bsky.social

#Solidarity #Inequalities #PublicHealth

🗣️ With @who.int
@eurohealthnet.bsky.social
@carocostongs.bsky.social
@obshealth.bsky.social
@ecdc.europa.eu
@mentalhealtheurope.bsky.social
@feantsa.bsky.social

www.ehfg.org

Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief Teresa Ribera says effects of crisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action

🌇 #ClimateCowardice: Political cowardice is hindering Europe’s #ClimateChange efforts, says EU’s green chief

🌇 Teresa Ribera says effects of #ClimateCrisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...