European Public Health Alliance

- EPHA has an official Memorandum of Understanding with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe), since June 2023
- Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL): https://env-health.org/
- EU Alliance for Investing in Children (informal coalition): http://www.alliance4investinginchildren.eu/
- European Alliance for Responsible R&D and Affordable Medicines
- EU Roma Coalition
- EU Food Policy Coalition

EPHA has a broad and versatile membership that links people and their needs and concerns to EU policy making. It consists of 52 organisations from 21 European countries, with 32 members from European Union (EU) Member States, three from European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, and 18 from countries from the wider World Health Organization (WHO) European region and international

https://epha.org/about-us/membership/members-list/

Association of European Cancer Leagues
ECL
www.cancer.eu

Association of European Coeliac Societies
AOECS
www.aoecs.org

Association of Natural Medicine in Europe
ANME
www.anme-ngo.eu

Association of School of Public Health in the European Region
ASPHER
www.aspher.org

British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
BSLM
www.bslm.org.uk

Bulgarian Association for Patients’ Rights Defence
BAZP (BAPRD)
Cancer Research UK
CR-UK
www.cancerresearchuk.org​

Dachverband Komplementärmedizin
Dakomed
www.dakomed.ch

Eurocam
Eurocam
www.cam-europe.eu/

European Academy of Paediatrics
EAP UEMS SP
www.eapaediatrics.eu

European Association of Senior Hospital Physicians
AEMH
www.aemh.org

European Cancer Organisation
ECCO
www.europeancancer.org/

European Central Council of Homeopaths
ECCH
www.homeopathy-ecch.org

European Confederation for Primary Care Paediatricians
ECPCP
www.ecpcp.eu

European Committee for Homeopathy
ECH
www.homeopathyeurope.org

European Council of Optometry and Optics
ECOO
www.ecoo.info

European Independent Foundation in Angiology/ Vascular Medicine
VAS EU
www.vas-int.net

European Institute of Women’s Health
EIWH
www.eurohealth.ie

European Lifestyle Medicine Council
ELMC
www.europeanlmc.org

European Liver Patients’ Association
ELPA
www.elpa.eu

European Medical Students’ Association
EMSA
www.emsa-europe.eu

European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention
ENSP
www.ensp.org

European Network of Medical Residents in Public Health
Euronet MRPH
www.euronetmrph.org

European Oncology Nursing Society
EONS
www.cancernurse.eu

European Pharmaceutical Students’ Association
EPSA
www.epsa-online.org

European Respiratory Society
ERS
www.ersnet.org

European Shiatsu Federation
ESF
www.shiatsufederation.eu

European Society for Organ Transplantation
ESOT
www.esot.org

European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
ESICM
www.esicm.org

Federation Europeenne des Medecins Salariés (European Federation of Salaried Doctors)
FEMS
www.fems.net

Greek Patients’ Association
www.greekpatient.gr​

Health Action International – Europe
HAI
www.haiweb.org

Health Policy Institute
www.healthpolicy.institute

The Health and Europe Centre
HEC
www.healthandeuropecentre.nhs.uk

Hungarian Alliance of Patient Organisation’s
BEMOSZ-HAPO
www.bemosz.hu

Independent Order of Good Templars
IOGT NTO
www.iogt.se

International Diabetes Federation – European Region
IDF
www.idf-europe.org

International Federation of Anthroposophical Medical Associations
IVAA
www.ivaa.info

International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations
IFMSA
www.ifmsa.org

International Society of Doctors for the Environment
ISDE
www.isde.org

International Youth Health Organization
YHO
www.yho.network

Mental Health Europe
MHE-SME
www.mhe-sme.org

Malta Health Network
MHN
www.maltahealthnetwork.org

Medici Pentru România
www.medicipentruromania.ro

Osteopathy Europe
https://osteopathyeurope.org/

Platform for Support of Health of Disadvantaged Groups
PPZZS
Polish Society for Health Programs
PSHP – PTPZ
www.ptpz.pl

Royal College of Nursing
RCN
www.rcn.org.uk

Safe Food Advocacy Europe
SAFE
www.safefoodadvocacy.eu

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems
SHAAP
www.shaap.org.uk

Slovenian Coalition for Public Health, Environment and Tobacco Control
SCTC
www.tobak-zveza.si

Tallinn Children’s Hospital Foundation
TCHF
www.toetusfond.ee

Wemos
WEMOS
www.wemos.org

WHO Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
CPA for NCD Prevention
www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/bhfcpnp

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Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

2,624,403€

None declared

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In 2023, EPHA (co-)organised 17 external events, including the celebratory event of EPHA’s 30 birthday, out of which six were hybrid, five online and six in person, gathering over 3500 attendees and another 6899 views on our YouTube channel. Moreover, EPHA (co-)organised four capacity buildings for its members, reaching 167 participants. EPHA attended 30 non-EPHA organised events as speaker/moderator and 69 events as attendees.

In addition, EPHA organised 31 cluster meetings with its members, had 135 meetings with key stakeholders from international institutions and civil society, and 19 meetings with policymakers. In 2023, 143 articles were published on the EPHA website include opinion pieces, statements, policy and position papers, reports, and public consultation responses.

EPHA’s digital communication and dissemination: The main communication channel of EPHA is the website. In 2023, the EPHA website reached 3.7 million impressions and 72K clicks, which includes clicks on Google search results and clicks on the pages of EPHA’s website.

EPHA’s social media outreach is carried out through LinkedIn, X (former Twitter), and YouTube. The number of followers across all channels in 2023 grew by 20% (+5166 users).

In 2023 EPHA increased its audiovisual outputs publishing a total of 48 videos on the YouTube channel. Among these, 7 were webinar recordings, 21 were hybrid event recordings, and 20 were campaign related videos. The videos gathered a total of 6899 views, a 49% increase from the previous year. Lastly, EPHA’s videos gathered 117 000 impressions.

EPHA’s communication activities are complemented by regular mailings. Currently, EPHA issues a monthly digital newsletter, events mailings, and topical feeds such as the Health Equity Feed. In comparison to 2022, the monthly newsletter had a 10% increase in following (6003 subscribers), the Health Equity Feed had a 20% increase (2606 subscribers), and lastly, the events mailing list had a 14% following increase (3935 subscribers).

[Please note that some of the Expert Groups mentioned above are currently inactive or have recently been disbanded.]

In addition to the groups mentioned above, EPHA is an active member of the DG Sante Health Policy Platform and the European Medicines Agency's Patient and Consumer Working Party.

In line with the priorities above, EPHA engages with European policy dialogue in several policy areas which impact on public health, including:

Health inequalities (economic, employment, social, education and industrial policies, including issues affecting patient access and health workforce)
Food and nutrition, including agricultural policies, industrial policies affecting the food and drinks sectors, etc.
Tobacco control
Alcohol
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Mental health
Patients rights and safety, especially in relation to AMR.
Health workforce
Pharmaceutical policy
Health systems - investment, sustainability and resilience
Global health and Sustainable Development Goals
EU trade policies
European Semester recommendations as regard public health
Planetary health, including e.g. climate change and air quality impacts on public health

42 meetings found. Download meetings

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

• Date	06 Mar 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Meeting to discuss the reform of EU pharmaceutical legislation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet member) Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Patients' Forum (EPF)

• Date	06 Mar 2023	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Pharma Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas
  Portfolio	Promoting the European Way of Life
  Attending	Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President) Maria Luisa Llano Cardenal (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Patients' Forum (EPF)

• Date	16 Dec 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VTC Meeting: Sustainable Food Systems/Procurement
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Compassion in World Farming Brussels

• Date	09 Nov 2022	Location	Brussels/Videoconference
  Subject	Global Health Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

• Date	21 Sep 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Rare diseases
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Ines Prainsack (Cabinet member) Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RARE DISEASES Alzheimer Europe

• Date	12 Jul 2022	Location	Video-call
  Subject	Food security
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Eurogroup for Animals

• Date	31 Jan 2022	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VTC Meeting on the framework legislation on sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements EU Regional Group

• Date	02 Dec 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VTC Meeting: Sustainable food system framework initiative
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member) Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member) Karolina Herbout-Borczak (Cabinet member)

• Date	25 Nov 2021	Location	Webex
  Subject	Follow up to Cssr Kyriakides’ meeting with CSOs on 25/10/2021 on civil society funding through EU4Health
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Giorgios Rossides (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Alzheimer Europe

• Date	25 Oct 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VTC Meeting: EU4Health Work Programme 2022 and operating grants.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Patients' Forum (EPF)

• Date	10 Sep 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	transparency and access to documents
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Alvaro De Elera (Cabinet member)

• Date	30 Jul 2021	Location	Virtual meeting
  Subject	Meeting with civil society representatives regarding the EU4health programme.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Patients' Forum (EPF)

• Date	22 Jul 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VTC meeting on Framework legislation for sustainable food systems
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member) Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	WWF European Policy Programme ClientEarth AISBL

• Date	21 Jan 2021	Location	Videoconference
  Subject	Transparency in tobacco lobbying
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová
  Portfolio	Values and Transparency
  Attending	Renate Nikolay (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Corporate Europe Observatory

• Date	20 Jan 2021	Location	Brussels
  Subject	VC Meeting - Discussion on minimum sustainability criteria for public procurement.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Heart Network

• Date	20 Jan 2021	Location	Brussels - video conference
  Subject	Discussion on minimum sustainability criteria for public procurement
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	European Green Deal
  Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability European Secretariat

• Date	10 Sep 2020	Location	Virtual meeting
  Subject	Exchange of views on the pharmaceutical strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

• Date	11 Jun 2020	Location	Webex meeting
  Subject	Farm to Fork Strategy.
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)

• Date	29 May 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Video call with Pharmaceutical Industrial Associations, the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, to discuss Possible shortages of medicines and medical devices for the Covid-19 outbreak
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Stella Kyriakides (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Vaccines Europe

• Date	28 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Farm to Fork Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
  Portfolio	Health
  Attending	Roberto Reig Rodrigo (Cabinet member) Annukka Ojala (Cabinet member)

• Date	11 Sep 2019	Location	Brussels
  Subject	EU Platform for action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Inga Preikšienė (Cabinet member) Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs

• Date	20 Jan 2019	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	courtesy visit, presentation of activities
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Anne Bucher (Director-General)

• Date	18 Jul 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Horizon Europe
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Annika Nowak (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	GLOBAL HEALTH ADVOCATES

• Date	18 Jul 2018	Location	Brussels, Belgium
  Subject	Non communicable diseases
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Annika Nowak (Cabinet member) Alina Timofte (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Chronic Disease Alliance

• Date	01 Jun 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Pharmaceuticals in the environment
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet member) Annika Nowak (Cabinet member) Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	European Environmental Bureau Stichting Changing Markets

• Date	15 May 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Access to medicines in poor countries
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström
  Portfolio	Trade
  Attending	Pedro Velasco Martins (Cabinet member) Maria Asenius (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	Knowledge Ecology International Europe

• Date	15 May 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	HTA
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) Annika Nowak (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Cancer Patient Coalition EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RARE DISEASES

• Date	25 Apr 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Common Agricultural Policy reform
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	WWF European Policy Programme

• Date	27 Mar 2018	Location	Brussels
  Subject	exchange of view on the Communication on Food and Farming
  DG	Agriculture and Rural Development
  Attending	Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General)
  Other Lobbyists	European Heart Network

• Date	20 Mar 2018	Location	Brussels, BERL
  Subject	handover of the position paper of the SDG multi-stakeholder Platform on MFF
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	CSR Europe, The Business Network for Corporate Social Responsibility

• Date	18 Jul 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Pharmaceuticals in Water
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella
  Portfolio	Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
  Attending	Lanfranco Fanti (Cabinet member) Aurore Maillet (Cabinet member)

• Date	16 Jul 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Action plan on Antimicrobial Resistance & roadmap on pharmaceuticals
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska
  Portfolio	Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  Attending	Rolf Carsten Bermig (Cabinet member)

• Date	15 Jun 2017	Location	Berlaymont
  Subject	Public Health and the Future of Europe
  DG	Inspire, Debate, Engage and Accelerate Action
  Attending	Ann Mettler (Director-General)

• Date	28 Apr 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Antimicrobial resistance and the outlook for the forthcoming action plan, as well as health in the Semester and Social Pillar
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Paula Duarte Gaspar (Cabinet member) Annika Nowak (Cabinet member) Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member)

• Date	02 Mar 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Towards a renewed EU Alcohol and Health Forum
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) Paula Duarte Gaspar (Cabinet member) Arunas Vinciunas (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Youth Forum International Federation of Medical Students' Associations Association of European Cancer Leagues

• Date	27 Jan 2017	Location	Brussels
  Subject	• discussion of how to build on collaboration with civil society to further develop and support EU health policy
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Xavier Prats Monné (Director-General)

• Date	17 Nov 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Roundtable on the future of the General Food Law Regulation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member) Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)
  Other Lobbyists	European Food Law Association European farmers AnimalhealthEurope

• Date	06 Sep 2016	Location	Brussels
  Subject	To discuss the final confeserence session and how EPHA could support the EFC on AMR
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Xavier Prats Monné (Director-General)

• Date	26 Nov 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	AMR
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Annika Nowak (Cabinet member)

• Date	28 Oct 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Better Regulation agenda, Health in all policies approach and civil society involvement
  DG	Health and Food Safety
  Attending	Xavier Prats Monné (Director-General)

• Date	19 Mar 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Chronic Disease - EU Action
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
  Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
  Attending	Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) Paula Duarte Gaspar (Cabinet member)

• Date	03 Mar 2015	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Better regulation
  Cabinet	Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans
  Portfolio	Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
  Attending	Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
  Other Lobbyists	EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION