19th to 21st April 2016, Geneva, Switzerland. The Geneva Health Forum (GHF), a biennial event launched in 2006 and held in spring, combines plenary and parallel sessions attended by hundreds of participants, with a large international exhibition area. Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) along with the Faculty of Medicine of the University […]

KEY OUTCOMES OF THE EHFG 2015 – This is not a refugee crisis, this is a reception crisis. Human mobility is the new norm in our increasingly globalised world. – We need “more Europe” – deeper cooperation – to develop a comprehensive, sustainable and collective strategy to respond to the […]

30th September to 02nd October 2015, Bad Hofgastein, Austria. Six cross-border health projects have now been short-listed for the prestigious European Health Award 2015. They cover topics such as migrant health, mental health, evidence-based health promotion, the European Patients’ Rights Directive 2011/24/EU, TeleMedicine, cross-border inpatient treatment, and promotion of nutrition […]

30th September to 2nd October 2015, Bad Hofgastein, Austria. High-level representatives and decision-makers from all over Europe and beyond, about 600 participants from all fields related to health policy making, a three day programme filled with invigorating discussions on how to keep Europe’s health systems secure and Europe’s citizens healthy. […]

30th September to 2nd October 2015, Bad Hofgastein, Austria Like every year in May, the World Health Assembly – decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO) – brought together delegates from all WHO Member States to discuss global health issues. The agenda for 2015 covered topics ranging from emergency […]

30th September to 2nd October 2015, Bad Hofgastein, Austria Get a first taste of the 18th European Health Forum Gastein “Securing Health in Europe. Balancing Priorities, Sharing Responsibilities!” For this year we expect programme contributions on the topics of health security and health threats, non-communicable diseases and multimorbidity, the potential uses […]

  30th September to 2nd October 2015, Bad Hofgastein, Austria This month we are excited to share the main theme for this year’s conference with you: Securing Health in Europe Balancing priorities, sharing responsibilities Current health systems need to safeguard past gains in health while responding to new threats and opportunities which […]

European Health Forum Gastein 2014 Conference Report Electing health – the Europe we want! We are pleased to share the finalised Conference Report from last year’s EHFG with you. For those who took part as well as those who missed it, the report captures what happened during three eventful days […]

European Health Forum Gastein 2014, Bad Hofgastein, Austria The European Health Forum Gastein, held for the 17th time in Bad Hofgastein, Austria, brought together politicians, senior decision-makers, representatives of interest groups, and experts coming from government and administration, business and industry, civil society and science and academia to discuss public health […]

Report from European Health Forum Gastein, 1st to 3rd October 2014, Bad Hofgastein, Austria The EHFG 2014 deliberately grasped the opportunity offered by the changing political context – with a new European Parliament, a new European Commission a new urgency in the WHO European Region, at a time of international […]