The European Commission has proposed a progressive roll-out of the new In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation to prevent disruption in the supply of these essential healthcare products. The unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have diverted resources from Member States, health institutions and economic operators towards addressing the crisis, thereby hampering the capacity to […]
3rd Health Programme. Support to reforms in health workforce field – Initiatives on task-shifting
The objective of the initiative is to provide support to the Member States to design and implement their policies related to healthcare workforce retention, task-shifting and regional medical deserts. This should be achieved through the development of supporting tools –guidelines, scaling up of good practices, creating a platform for policy dialogue to advance on these […]
Support to reforms in health workforce field – Initiatives on retention policies
The objective of the initiative is to provide support to Member States to design and implement their policies related to healthcare workforce retention, task-shifting and regional medical deserts. This should be achieved, through the development of supporting tools –guidelines, scaling up of good practices, creating a platform for policy dialogue to advance on these challenging issues. […]
H2020. Innovations to accelerate vaccine development and manufacture
Vaccination is one of the greatest achievements in healthcare. However, developing a vaccine remains costly, time-consuming, and risky. Advances in immunology, disease modelling, in silico modelling, including the analysis of big data and the application of machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI), provide opportunities to innovate, de-risk and accelerate the vaccine-development process. Many of these […]
3rd Health Programme: support to reforms in health workforce field – Initiatives on retention policies
The objective of the initiative is to provide support to Member States to design and implement their policies related to healthcare workforce retention, task-shifting and regional medical deserts. This should be achieved, through the development of supporting tools –guidelines, scaling up of good practices, creating a platform for policy dialogue to advance on these challenging issues. […]
European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Access to the official webpage and the social networks Role: EMA guarantees the scientific evaluation, supervision & safety monitoring of human & veterinary medicines in the EU. Executive Director: Emer Cooke Established in: 1995 Number of staff: 897 Location: Amsterdam (the Netherlands) Website: EMA The European Medicines Agency (EMA) protects and promotes human and animal health […]