10/01/2022
FEAM Forum
20/12/2021
In 2022 we would like to continue to strive, and we foresee a year of many challenges. We will continue to share the evidence based scientific expertise of our Academies, thus contributing to better health policies.
FEAM
17/12/2021
The 8th episode of the PERISCOPE’s Monthly Talks will focus on the COVID Data Atlas, featuring Enea Parimbelli, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pavia, as a guest. Enea is coordinating efforts of PERISCOPE’s Work Package 4 whose main product is the Data Atlas: an integrated data repository for COVID-related information enabling analysis […]
PERISCOPE
09/12/2021
The European Health Stakeholder Group urged the European Commission to formalise the United Kingdom’s association to Horizon Europe without further delay. In a statement published on 8 December, the European Health Stakeholder Group, of which FEAM is a member, stressed that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical value of global partnerships to advance scientific […]
Research
07/12/2021
On 27 November, Professor Stefan Constantinescu, President of FEAM, was awarded the 15th Prize of the Alexandre and Gaston Tytgat Foundation, amounting to 25,000 Euros. This prize is awarded every three years and aims to distinguish French and Flemish researchers in support of their cancer research. Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of […]
Cancer
23/11/2021
The AMR Stakeholder Network has published today (23 November) a position paper on the EU Pharmaceutical strategy, with recommendations addressed to the European Commission. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) represents a global health threat, which continues to worsen, despite the emerging realisation of the severity and magnitude of this problem, including beyond expert spheres. In the document, […]
Human genome editing
23/11/2021
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is celebrated from 18-24 November every year. The 2021 theme, Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance, calls on One Health stakeholders, policymakers, health care providers, and the general public to be Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness champions. On this topic, FEAM interviewed Dr. Jean-Yves Madec, Scientific Director on Antimicrobial Resistance at the French […]
Awareness Day
19/11/2021
In the November issue of our newsletter, we highlight the FEAM Forum Annual Lecture, the publication of the report on Health Inequalities and the participation of Professor Stefan Constantinescu, in the European Cancer Summit.
Newsletter
14/11/2021
A new generation of scientific methods are helping to better understand health inequalities in Europe, but investments in data infrastructures are required to make use of its full potential for informing policymaking, European academies say in a new report. The COVID-19 pandemic has struck disadvantaged groups in society much more severely than others. As a […]
Health inequalities
04/11/2021
The seventh episode of the PERISCOPE Project Monthly Talks is dedicated to health inequalities with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Giuseppe Costa, Professor of Public Health (Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Italy), was the guest chosen to address this topic. He is a leading expert on health inequalities, overseeing FEAM […]
PERISCOPE
22/10/2021
PERISCOPE
20/10/2021
In a statement published on 18 October, the Coaliton for Vaccination, where FEAM is an associate member, advises flu vaccination, especially for at-risk groups and healthcare professionals. In 2020-21, the influenza activity in Europe remained at a low level throughout the flu season, due to various public health and social measures implemented to reduce transmission […]
Vaccination
05/10/2021
On 25 November, the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM), with the support of Novartis, is hosting a joint activity discussing and examining drug development within the European Union and beyond. Prior to the arrival of any medicine on the market, each product goes through a lengthy research and development process which is tested for […]
FEAM Forum
05/10/2021
Dutch expertise in the field of drug development is too fragmented, with researchers’ efforts to get their discoveries to the patient being frustrated. National coordination is therefore needed to support researchers and promote cooperation. That will make drug development faster and more effective and give patients better access to new therapies. This is what the […]
Academies
04/10/2021
Timothy Yeung was the guest on the sixth episode of PERISCOPE Monthly Talks. In this episode he talked about health governance during the pandemic. Timothy Yeung is a Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Associate Researcher at the Leuven Center for Empirical Jurisprudence of KU Leuven in Belgium. If you want […]
PERISCOPE
21/09/2021
On 26 October, the FEAM European Biomedical Policy Forum will organise an event on “The impact of COVID-19 on routine vaccination“. From 12:00 to 13:30 (CET), experts from European authorities and stakeholders will provide an overview on the impact that COVID-19 had on routine vaccination. In the first semester of 2020, pandemic measures to […]
FEAM Forum
20/09/2021
On 9 September, FEAM published a statement on Shortages of Medicines, setting out a list of recommendations to address this issue. In this interview, Professor Bruno Bonnemain (French Academy of Pharmacy), one of the experts who contributed to the statement, talks about the definition of shortages of medicines and the importance of addressing this challenge. […]
FEAM
16/09/2021
In the September issue of our newsletter, we introduce FEAM’s new board, our two new colleagues, Dr. Emma Martinez and Patrick Hurst, and look at the various areas of FEAM’s work.
FEAM
09/09/2021
To address the current situation regarding shortages of medicines, a pan-European approach is needed to harmonise data collection across Europe and encourage multidisciplinary discussions to find broad solutions, health experts say. In the statement on Shortages of Medicines, published today (9 September), the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) and its Member Academies call […]
FEAM
31/08/2021
On 29 September, the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) and its partners in the PERISCOPE project will organise the workshop “COVID-19 health inequalities in Europe“. From 10AM to 1PM (CET), researchers, policymakers and other interested stakeholders, including civil society, will discuss about the key points of the report on the health inequalities impacts […]
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