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Looking forward European Health Forum Gastein and the opportunity to discuss Civil Society engagement and participation. As civil society, how can we ensure that the voices of all communities, especially the most vulnerable, are heard? Nothing for Us, Without us! How can we leverage evidence and amplify researchers' voices amidst infodemics and fake news? What strategies can we employ to engage in policy making and act as boundary spanners? How can we bring policies back to the communities we serve? Transparency, accountability, and impact – these are some of the questions we need to address.

Really helpful information for implementing the ASI Policy Brief https://lnkd.in/ed-_pvyu as we advocate for Mental Health in All Policies and transformational change in the way policy is developed.

|𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀| 🌐 Have you already consulted the resources from the seminar: Towards Sustainable Societies: Health in All Policies and Social Determinants of Health? 📌 This meeting, held in September 2023 in Finland, was the result of a partnership between the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health in All Policies and the Social Determinants of Health at Tampere University, the World Health Organization, and the #GNHiAP, and we are happy to make these resources available to those who couldn’t attend: 📃Conference Program 🛜PowerPoint Presentations ▶️Video Recordings 📊Poster Presentations 🚩 To access these resources and more, click on the link below: https://lnkd.in/ehmXhdjV

🌟 Exploring Day 1 of the European Public Health Week: Health is a political choice: Starting the discussion 🗣💚 For the first day of the #EUPHW, we invite you to explore the intersection of health and politics. Event Highlights for Monday 🔸 Kick-off Event: Webinar - organised by EUPHA and partners 🔸 Radical Community Management Training 🔸 High-Level Panel: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges - a hybrid event co-organised with the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and the European Commission's DG SANTE. 📣To prepare this high-level panel, we invite you to debate in the comments on how the Covid pandemic impacted public health practices and policies. For Peter Allebeck, the Covid pandemic taught us that “as scientists, we need to learn to speak the political language without pretending to be politicians.”  Martin McKee shares with us that “we failed to hear the views of those who were most affected by our decisions”. He insists that next time “We must make sure that everybody’s voice is heard.” To guide us, our panellists Agnes Buzyn, Francesca Colombo, Hans Kluge Sandra Gallina and Sara Cerdas will reflect on lessons learned and future challenges in European (and global) public health, with a special focus on innovation. 🤝 Let’s join forces and amplify our voice to bridge the gap between health and politics, and make sure that health stay high on the political agenda! #EUPHW #HealthIsAPoliticalChoice #UseYourVote #UseYourVote4Health #Vote4Health #HealthUnion Emilia Aragón De León / Iveta Nagyova / Tit Albreht / Josep Figueras

Remind for today! 📌Join our upcoming webinar on Revisiting the Social determinants of health and hashtag #HealthEquity!

Eight months ago, WHO Europe hosted a meeting on "Behavioural and Cultural Insights" in Copenhagen, Denmark. Finally, the Meeting Statement of the delegates is published in the journal "Public Health in Practice". It is "a call for public health to embrace an evidence-based and systematic approach to optimizing the policies, services and communications that aim to address health behaviours and deliver better and equitable health." https://lnkd.in/dDrASSgi

In Australia, we have the opportunity to build on our leadership in living evidence to further our understanding of the living evidence model and create mechanisms that enable translation of living evidence into evidence-informed policy. A national research agenda that is achieved through collaboration may strengthen not only the evidence-into-policy architecture in Australia but also enable Australia to lead this field internationally. Living evidence is a framework for building and maintaining a current and rigorous synthesis of knowledge within a scientific area. The NSW Health Clinical Intelligence Unit, which sits within the Clinical Innovation and Research Division at the Ministry of Health, has living evidence tables and uses the approach for Horizon Scanning, thus helping the NSW health system to prepare for opportunities to harness advances emerging from health research and innovation. Read a paper written in collaboration between Kim Sutherland, The Office for Health and Medical Research's Executive Director, Samantha Chakraborty, Alex Collie, Sally Green and Tari Turner from Monash University, Rebecca Hodder and Luke Wolfenden from University of Newcastle, Suman Majumdar and Joshua Vogel from Burnet Institute, Bernie Towler from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, and Andrew Wilson from University of Sydney. They believe there is an opportunity to realise the substantial benefits of living evidence for health systems, and to lead this field internationally by encouraging living evidence use in health policy and establishing an Australian research agenda to understand and advance living evidence for policy. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/gDeQ2cH6

🔍 Unified call for a step-change in how we address health behaviours - published in Elsevier’s Public Health in Practice. Enabling, supporting and promoting positive health-related behaviours is more than necessary—it is essential in tackling the biggest public health challenges of our time. Understanding these behaviours requires an effective and evidence-based approach. Last year’s first ever regional meeting on behavioural and cultural insights (BCI) for health, marked an important step towards advancing the use of BCI in our Region. Meeting participants joined together in developing a statement that calls for public health to embrace a more evidence-based and systematic approach to behaviours. This approach will refine policies, services and communications addressing health behaviours, ensuring better and more equitable health outcomes for everyone. Explore our meeting statement in Elsevier’s Public Health in Practice, outlining actionable steps to drive positive health behaviors: https://lnkd.in/d2QuxAc5 👉 For key highlights from the meeting statement, read WHO/Europe’s news release: https://lnkd.in/d_jbHGsb Robb Butler Tiina Likki Vee Snijders Anastasia Koylyu Nils Fietje Svenja Roy Martha Scherzer Alyona Mazhnaya Karin Stein, MD, MScPH Elena Altieri   #BCI #PublicHealth #BehaviouralScience 

Calling for session proposals! The Fuse International Conference on Knowledge Exchange in Public Health is an opportunity for international scholars, policy-makers, community-based organizations, and the public to come together and engage in discussions around research translation in public health, build sustainable capacity, and build effective and lasting partnerships. This year's theme is “The Promise of Engaging the Public in Public Health.” For more information or to submit a proposal: https://lnkd.in/gP7FYFsx We invite session proposals that share and explore:  - Practical examples of engaging the public in public health, including successes, barriers and actions taken to overcome barriers - Methodological and theoretical reflections on involving the public in public health work - Critical commentaries on the scientific, practice, and policy landscapes that shape and influence how members of the public are engaged in public health work

Public health authorities, global partners and WHO experts have issued a call for action to accelerate the use of Behavioural and Cultural Insights (BCI) as an evidence-based and systematic approach that enables, supports and promotes positive health behaviours. The call for action is published in the form of a statement resulting from @WHO Regional Office for Europe’s first regional meeting on BCI for health held last year. Read the full meeting statement in Elsevier’s Public Health in Practice journal: https://lnkd.in/dWjzPwNA For key highlights, check out WHO/Europe’s news release: https://lnkd.in/dTGv245Z #BCI #PublicHealth #HealthInnovation #BehaviouralScience