Brussels, 13th March 2018 – A global intergovernmental meeting starts today in Stockholm, Sweden, which is instrumental to the process of developing a Strategic Approach for International Chemical Management (SAICM) and a new framework beyond 2020.
New study findings confirm bisphenol A effect on brain development and highlight urgency to accelerate drastic reduction of human exposure to known endocrine disruptor.
Toxic substances linked to a range of adverse health impacts can be present in carpets sold in the European Union (EU), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) warned today following a new study by Anthesis.
This year’s UNEA3 was all about health and pollution under the theme ; 'Towards A Pollution-Free Planet'. For the first time, HEAL sent a delegation to Nairobi: Vijoleta Gordeljevic and Eva…
Cost study prompts call to put health at the top of the policy agenda.
HEAL is excited to be an official stakeholder to HBM4EU, the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative. HBM4EU is a joint effort of 28 countries, the European Environment Agency and the European…
The Institute of Public Health of Serbia, a HEAL member, recently published a study focusing on the public health threats of some of the most industrially contaminated areas in Serbia. Coal…
November 2017 –The yearly UN Climate Change Conference took place in Bonn, Germany from 6 to 17 November this year. HEAL sent a 16 head strong delegation to Bonn to…
Today, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) joined a group of twenty organisations – led by Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe – to send a Declaration to European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella.
Engagement of civil society organisations and citizens has been suboptimal in defining research and innovation priorities in Horizon 2020 and in previous EU Research Framework Programmes.
Tıp dünyasının en önde gelen akademik yayınlarından Lancet’te yayınlanan ve 2015 yılını temel alan yeni çalışma, çevre kirliliğinin küresel ölümlerin yaklaşık yüzde 16’sından sorumlu olduğunu ortaya koyuyor.
Pollution in the air, water, soil and in the workplace is linked to an estimated nine million deaths each year worldwide – equivalent to one in six (16%) of all deaths, according to a ground-breaking new report in the leading medical journal The Lancet.
HEAL welcomed a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), which highlights why environmental risk reduction is essential in NCD prevention and that 23% of deaths globally can be…
Sign our petition to tell Members of the European Parliament to put public health first and to ban EDCs! The European Union is about to give the green light to new plans…
To increase citizens’ engagement and speed up action on key areas of environmental health, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) travelled to Ostrava in the Czech Republic to participate in…
Dear Minister, We are writing to you on behalf of the EDC Free Europe coalition [1], which represents 70 civil society groups – trade unions, consumers, health professionals, cancer organisations, environmental…
