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Celebrating 20 years of HEAL

Celebrating 20 years of HEAL

Twenty years ago, I realised that environmental pollution is linked to ill health and serious acute and chronic diseases, like cancer, asthma and respiratory diseases. This is when I launched into my environmental health journey and founded HEAL. It became clear to me that our ways of living and the environmental pollution resulting from that impacted our health. I wanted to know more about the impacts and the extent, how much of it was preventable, and what role and power policy-making could have in it....
A pesticide-free EU: an opportunity to protect health

A pesticide-free EU: an opportunity to protect health

European agriculture is pesticide-intensive, relying on a vast amount of health-harming substances. For people’s health, it is crucial that the EU Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUR) regulation is agreed upon without delay.
EU leadership on Green Deal and Zero Pollution action across the WHO European region

EU leadership on Green Deal and Zero Pollution action across the WHO European region

Ahead of the recent meeting of the WHO European Environment and Health Task Force, a briefing was held by the permanent representation of Hungary to the EU, where HEAL Executive Director Génon Jensen discussed HEAL’s perspectives on priorities and expectations from civil society. She called for action ahead of the Seventh Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health and offered a menu of issues that require ambitious and urgent policy action on environment and health in Europe, and in which the EU is poised to take a leadership role for the European region, as part of the implementation of the EU Green Deal, with its objective of zero pollution and do no harm at its core.
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