The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) webinar series “Gastein goes online: Policy debates during the pandemic” has been created to keep the Gastein-dialogue going during the COVID-19 crisis. Throughout the series the EHFG will address burning questions from the perspective of the EHFG’s four pillars, the public and private sector, […]

15th to 19th November 2020, Toronto, Canada. The ASTMH Annual Meeting is the premier forum for the exchange of scientific advances in tropical medicine/global health and hygiene. The meeting draws tropical medicine and global health professionals representing academia, foundations, government, not for profit organizations, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, military and […]

12th to 15th September 2020, online.         The annual ECNP* Congress is Europe’s premier scientific meeting for disease-oriented brain research. Held in autumn every year, the Congress brings together a vibrant group of psychiatrists, neuroscientists and neurologists from around the world to discuss the latest developments in […]

26th to 27th September 2020, Belgrade, Serbia. This year’s ESCMID postgraduate education course in Serbia aims to address the challenges and opportunities in clinical microbiology (CM) and infectious diseases (ID), to provide updates in training curriculum to address shifting needs, to help trainees and young consultants acquire knowledge and skills […]

2nd to 4th October 2020, Berlin, Germany. In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting socio-economic disparity, environmental degradation, and political struggles around identities and belonging, health and well-being are becoming increasingly fragile. Entangled economic, ecological, social, cultural, and political factors affect people’s living environments and professional worlds and render health […]

Introduction by Dr. Andraž Teršek. Mental healthcare and the prevention of suicide are highly important problems of contemporarily society. Mental health is considered to be one of the biggest and most serious health problems in Europe, according to the statistical data of the WHO and EU Commission. During the 2020 […]

  3rd to 14th August 2020, online. Purpose Is decentralization good for improving the performance of a health system?  This is a recurrent issue debated in many countries and made even more important in the current COVID-19 outbreak, as different levels of government try to rapidly respond to the crisis.   […]

by Teresa Anzböck. In the summer between my 4th and 5th year of medical school, I completed a one-month clinical elective in Paediatrics and Neonatology at Mater Dei Hospital in Msida, Malta. I had different reasons for choosing Malta as the destination for my paediatric elective. In Malta, English is […]

Every year, the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) provides a key platform to discuss health and societal well-being in Europe and beyond, bringing together experts, stakeholders and key decision-makers from the public and private sector, civil society and science and academia. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world […]

11th to 12th September 2020, Berlin, Germany. The progress of interventional therapy for chronic total occlusions (CTO) is a success story of both developments in procedural strategies accompanied by rapid progress in medical devices, specifically dedicated wires and microcatheters, but also the success of drug-eluting stents to achieve a long-term […]