Summary Report: FEAM Annual Lecture 2021 – Drug Development

On 25 November, the FEAM Forum organized its 2021 Annual Lecture, this year under the topic, "Fastening EU Drug Development". The event, sponsored by Novartis, gathered members of academia, polictics, patients' groups and industry in a roundtable discussion.

06 / 01 / 2022

European Health Stakeholder Group Statement: Formalising the UK’s association to Horizon Europe

As representatives of the European Union’s health community, we are united in our call for the United Kingdom’s association to Horizon Europe to be formalised as soon as possible. Horizon Europe aims to tackle the major global challenges of our time but achieving this aim will be impossible without international collaboration

09 / 12 / 2021

Summary of FEAM session on “COVID-19 impacts on health” at 9th congress of Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bucharest – 25 November 2021

On 25 November 2021, the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) organised an online session at the 9th Congress of Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bucharest focusing on COVID-19 impacts on mental health and health inequalities. Here you can find the summary of the event.

07 / 12 / 2021

AMR Stakeholder Network – Position paper on the EU Pharmaceutical strategy

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 this position paper, 17 organizations present 6 recommendations to the European Commission, on the EU Pharmaceutical strategy.

23 / 11 / 2021

FEAM Newsletter – November 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.

19 / 11 / 2021

Summary report: The impact of COVID-19 on routine vaccination

On 26 October, the FEAM Forum organised a webinar on the Impact of COVID-19 on routine vaccination, which focused on the lessons learned from this pandemic, with the aim of improving vaccine planning and communication across Europe.

17 / 11 / 2021

Report: In the Health Inequalities Research: New methods, better insights?

In the Health Inequalities Research: New methods, better insights? report, published on 15 November, experts from the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) and the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) evaluate scientific methods to study health inequalities with the aim of helping to narrow the health gap across Europe.

14 / 11 / 2021

Summary Report: PERISCOPE Workshop on COVID-19 health inequalities in Europe

This is the Summary Report of the PERISCOPE Workshop on COVID-19 health inequalities in Europe, held on the 29h of September 2021. This workshop is the result of a joint collaboration between 5 different partners under the umbrella of the research project PERISCOPE. PERISCOPE is a European funded project aiming at investigating the broad behavioural and socioeconomic impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic. It brings together 32 partners from all over Europe, coming from a wide array of expertise.

22 / 10 / 2021

KNAW advisory report “Greater Efficiency through Innovation”

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 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 Academy calls for in its new advisory report “Greater Efficiency through Innovation”.

05 / 10 / 2021

FEAM Newsletter – September 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.

16 / 09 / 2021

FEAM Statement on Shortages of Medicines

In a statement published on 9 September 2021, the FEAM and its Member Academies set out a list of recommendations to address the challenge of shortages of medicines.

07 / 09 / 2021

Remove obstacles to sharing health data with researchers outside of the European Union

The lead authors of the report "International Sharing of Personal Health Data for Research" published a comment in the journal Nature Medicine. The paper, presented by members of FEAM, ALLEA and EASAC, summarises the main findings of the joint report, published last April.

23 / 08 / 2021

Recommendations from the French Academy of Pharmacy on Unavailability of Indispensable Medicine

02 / 08 / 2021

IAP – Statement on Regenerative Medicine

30 / 07 / 2021

European Health Stakeholder Group Statement on the UK data protection regime

The European Health Stakeholder Group welcomes the results of the Article 93 Committee vote on the UK data protection regime on 16 June. EU Member States voted unanimously in favour to approve the adequacy decision which means that the flow of personal data from the EU to the UK will continue uninterrupted post-Brexit.

22 / 06 / 2021

FEAM Newsletter – June 2021

Much has happened since the last two months. FEAM elected a new Board, published two reports (ECDC and HERA) and three new partners joined the FEAM Forum. See the latest news from FEAM.

10 / 06 / 2021

EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority: How should the EU prepare and respond to future cross border health threats?

This report sets out a series of recommendations on the EU Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) at this critical moment in its development and in emergency preparedness and response globally. This report is the result of joint work between FEAM and the Wellcome Trust.

13 / 05 / 2021

Reinforcement of the mandate of the European Centre for Prevention and Disease Control (ECDC) and a new EU Regulation on serious cross-border health threats

FEAM and its Member Academies welcome the European Commission’s proposal for a European Health Union and for a stronger European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. In a statement published today (14 May), Reinforcement of the mandate of the European Centre for Prevention and Disease Control (ECDC) and a new EU Regulation on serious cross-border health threats, FEAM issued a list of recommendations aimed at strengthening the ECDC's mandate.

11 / 05 / 2021

Medical Training: What kind of doctor do we want for the future?

On 18 March, the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM), with support of the Portuguese Academy of Medicine, organised a digital conference focused on the future of the medical profession. The question "What kind of doctor do we want in the future?" was the starting point for a discussion on the future of medical training.

07 / 05 / 2021

The Lancet: GDPR obstructs cancer research data sharing

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is having unforeseen, deleterious consequences on the progress of international health research according to a report co-authored by the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM), the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (All European Academies or ALLEA), and the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC).

04 / 05 / 2021

FEAM Newsletter – April 2021

The FEAM April newsletter is already here, with news from our academies, SAPEA, Forum partners and Network Academies. Find out more about our activities.

22 / 04 / 2021

Decarbonisation of the Health Sector: A Commentary by EASAC and FEAM

This joint commentary by EASAC and FEAM, representing European Academies of Science and Medicine, emphasizes the responsibility of the health sector to reduce its own GHG emissions, and work with other sectors to accelerate decarbonization of the wider economy.

20 / 04 / 2021

A stronger crisis preparedness: The European Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA)

In the context of the joint Wellcome Trust/FEAM project proposal on the EU Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA), the FEAM European Biomedical Policy Forum organised a round table discussion as an opportunity to hear and exchange opinions from a range of stakeholders. FEAM European Biomedical Policy Forum members and others stakeholder representatives from industry, civil society and patient groups joined the meeting with the aim of contributing to the work led by Wellcome Trust/FEAM.

12 / 04 / 2021

International Sharing of Personal Health Data for Research

In the report “International sharing of personal health data for research”, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC), and the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) call on EU policymakers and legislators for a commitment to overcome the barriers in sharing pseudonymised health data with researchers outside the EU/EEA, including the ones from the public sector, preferably under Article 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

25 / 03 / 2021

Statement by the European Stakeholder Group

The European Stakeholder Group calls for formal adoption of the draft adequacy decision on the UK data protection regime.

03 / 03 / 2021