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Ideas Lab 2025 - Lisa Görlitz 💡 Lab session: How to incentivise neglected disease R&D in the EU? 🗓️ 4 March 2025 🕐 H 11:00 - 12:15 📍 The Square, Brussels The session will explore how innovative pull funding mechanisms can transform research into meaningful health and societal outcomes, strengthening Europe’s ability to tackle health challenges by fostering a robust ecosystem for global health innovation. Current EU initiatives –such as the overhaul of pharmaceutical legislation, the launch of a Life Sciences Strategy and Biotechnology Act and the review of HERA – offer opportunities to implement these innovative approaches. Learn more 👉 https://ideaslab.ceps.eu/programme/

💊🌍 The EU leads in science, but turning research into health solutions is a challenge, especially for neglected diseases.

💡At #CEPSLab2025, Lisa Görlitz & @rosacastro.bsky.social propose using PRV & advance market commitments to boost R&D in neglected diseases.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/43ewRbF

It must be a mistake, right?

Warning signs of childhood cancer

It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day.

Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include:

🔹Leukaemia
🔹brain tumours
🔹lymphomas
🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour)

Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B

YouTube video by Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung - DSW Youth in the new EU mandate

Youth must have a say in shaping the EU’s global partnerships, diplomacy, and development policies. Their perspectives are key to building a world that upholds inclusivity and is sustainable for ALL. We look forward to the upcoming #YouthDialogues

🎥 Watch here ⬇️
youtu.be/4YPgfP3_0Bg?...

❓Did you know for every €1 invested in global health research and innovation brings a return of investment of €405? 💸
Learn how EU investments in global health R&I drive economic and societal benefits at the SB conference tomorrow ➡️ web-eur.cvent.com/event/fdd546... @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social

Very productive discussion on the EU’s role as leader and investor in global health innovation (and the great returns that these investments have for Europe and the world)

Hopefully the next EU R&I framework programme (FP10) ambitions will match the needs & opportunities for global health R&I

🚨 NEW REPORT in collaboration with @impactglobalhealth.bsky.social reveals the immense value of #EU investments in global health #research and #innovation (R&I) driving economic & societal benefits to Europe and globally 🌍

Full report: bit.ly/EUReportFull
Summary: bit.ly/EUReportShort

The number of Britons saying the UK was right to vote to leave the EU has hit its lowest level since the referendum, ahead of the fifth anniversary of Brexit on Friday

Right to vote to leave: 30% (-3 from Nov)
Wrong to vote to leave: 55% (=)

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

It’s #WorldNTDDay 2025 and we are halfway to the WHO NTD roadmap 2030 target. 54 countries have eliminated at least one NTD—showing real progress is possible! Yet 1.5+ billion people are still affected by these diseases, with women and girls most affected. 🌍

Congratulations, great news for public health!

UK reports human case of bird flu The individual contracted the infection on a farm.

The UK has reported a "rare" human case of bird flu, the Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced today, but the risk to the wider public remains "very low."

A must-read thread 👇
Let’s not get bogged down in the debate around the very concept of “UPFs”: replace “UPFs” with “HFSS foods”, and the findings remain just as valid and spot on.

🔴 El chavismo detiene a María Corina Machado en Caracas. Policías interceptaron su vehículo y se la llevaron después de su participación en una marcha opositora tinyurl.com/bdfu94d5

Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, is arrested Machado was arrested by government security forces Thursday as she left a rally in Caracas on the eve of Maduro's inauguration after a widely discredited election.

María Corina Machado, the driving force of Venezuela’s opposition movement, was arrested by government security forces Thursday as she left a rally in Caracas, a day before President Nicolás Maduro plans to take office for a third term.

Eurobarometer survey shows strong support for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, support for the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has reached an all-time high. The level of public awareness for the CAP is at its highest level sinc

New Eurobarometer on Europeans and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) just out 👇
👀 on #trade: nearly 9 in 10 agree that agricultural imports should only enter the EU if their production has complied with EU environmental, animal welfare and labour standards.
#Mercosur
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

New EU Health Commissioner appointed amid controversy Olivér Várhelyi's tempestuous confirmation process has seen pandemic preparedness and reproductive health stripped from his portfolio. Marianne Guenot reports.

New EU Health Commissioner appointed amid controversy @thelancet.bsky.social

Fish, the court and youth access: EU’s demands for Starmer’s reset The EU sets the bar high for trade talks with British prime minister, according to report by The Times.

Brussels will demand the UK accept its court, make no changes to the access of EU fishermen in British waters and welcome a youth mobility program in exchange for discussing new terms of the trade deal between the two sides, according to The Times.

Single mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus may make it more infectious to humans, study finds Study published in Science says a single hemagglutinin mutation, similar to one seen in a Canadian case, could make H5N1 better suited to infect people.

A new study suggests #H5N1 #birdflu circulating in cows might have an easier path to adapting to humans than previous versions of the virus. One mutation changed the receptors to which the virus binds from those in birds to those found in human upper airways. www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/h...

The EU is all for environmental advocacy.

It just doesn’t want to pay for it anymore.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Hi people interested in EU Food & Agriculture policy! I have created a #StarterPack … but it needs to grow, I am sure we are a lot more here! Let me know if you wish to be added :)
#FoodSystems #FoodStudies
go.bsky.app/GGZk82Q

Photo. of DG

🦠#PandemicAccord talks resumed Monday for a week-long session aiming to resolve the big remaining sticking points on benefit-sharing across the agreement

🌎 WHO Director-General believes issues can be resolved this year. Co-chairs stressed urgency, flexibility & realism.

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Updated: European health policy starter pack

My favourite and trusted European health policy, advocacy and law connections on Bluesky

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Les enfants, grands oubliés de la recherche contre les maladies tropicales négligées L’OMS révèle, dans un rapport, les insuffisances dans le traitement de ces pathologies qui touchent les populations pauvres. A ce jour, 70 % des médicaments ne sont pas adaptés aux plus jeunes patient...

Les enfants, grands oubliés de la recherche contre les maladies tropicales négligées - L’OMS révèle, dans un rapport, les insuffisances dans le traitement de ces pathologies qui touchent les populations pauvres. A ce jour, 70 % des médicaments ne sont pas adaptés aux plus jeunes patients. @who.int

What is the regulatory state of play for cultivated meat? Are there any rules at the EU level? I spoke about this at this week's episode of @euronews.com EUDecoded.
Here's a teaser but you'll find the full episode at this link 👇
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Great concise explanation of such a complex issue Gerardo, congrats! At the European Academies Science Advisory Council we are working on a report on the impacts of this and other meat alternatives (to be published next year), happy to discuss further!

easac.eu/projects/det...