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Health
Innovative palliative care for people with cancer - Sustainabl...
Publication
October 30, 2024
op.europa.eu
This Policy Brief Document was developed in collaboration with researchers and experts on palliative care and through a series of workshops. It summarises the results of research projects, providing evidence on the va...
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Cultivating sustainability - The role of EU Food Systems in ad...
Policy Brief
October 25, 2024
op.europa.eu
EU food systems resemble complex webs of relationships spanning supply chains, consumption patterns, ecosystems, human health, and planetary boundaries and demanding systemic approaches for fostering a transition towa...
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An information-based risk analysis IT tool protecting the Euro...
Research Paper
October 18, 2024
op.europa.eu
The Farm to Fork Strategy has recognised the necessity of intensifying efforts to combat fraudulent practices within the agri-food chain while simultaneously enhancing traceability and alert systems to improve coordin...
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Estimating food waste generated and packaging placed on the ma...
Working Paper
October 11, 2024
op.europa.eu
The aim of this report is twofold. Firstly, it illustrates the latest refinements applied to a food waste model based on material flow analysis, which performs yearly estimations of food waste generated by food catego...
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Join CULTIVATE in building a better future for food sharing: t...
Press Release
October 10, 2024
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CULTIVATE project calls on stakeholders to share insights and help design its five Food Sharing Compass toolsFirst sentence: The CULTIVATE Project is excited to announce the launch of a new survey designed to gather c...
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Is the EU Prepared to Face Potential Future Pandemics?
Press Release
October 8, 2024
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PAIR releases its project presentation video to show the pathway toward European pandemic preparedness.
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PAIR Project Completes 3D Prototype of its Point-of-Care Diagn...
Press Release
October 8, 2024
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Nine months after the project began, the prototype for PANPOC, a pioneering Point-of-Care diagnostic system has been successfully 3D printed by PAIR partners.
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EU financial support for health systems in selected partner co...
Study
October 8, 2024
op.europa.eu
We audited the EU’s financial support for health systems in partner countries over three programming periods. We carried out a documentary analysis and we examined projects in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Con...
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KitNewCare’s Innovation Challenge to Shape the Future of Sus...
Press Release
October 4, 2024
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On 16 October 2024, KitNewCare will host its Innovation Challenge, an event designed to foster collaborative innovation towards achieving sustainability in kidney care.
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When AI Meets Humanity: The Starlab’s journey
Press Release
October 4, 2024
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Aureli Soria-Frisch, director of Starlab Barcelona has led an extraordinary journey into the field of consciousness research. Starlab brought together research teams from across Europe to work on a European collaborat...
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A comprehensive approach to mental health - Progress so far
Report
September 22, 2024
op.europa.eu
There is no health without mental health. In a complex world full of change, people’s mental wellbeing is under significant pressure. The Commission’s comprehensive approach to mental health, adopted in June 2023,...
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KitNewCare: project presentation video launched
Press Release
September 19, 2024
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of the KitNewCare project presentation video. This video provides an overview of the project, outlining its key aims, innovations, and the impact it seeks to make on kidney care ...
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DARWIN and DETECTIVE projects announce their clustering
Press Release
September 19, 2024
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Horizon Europe-funded projects DARWIN and DETECTIVE ready to explore synergies to maximise their impact
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The food sharing journey towards a strong community of practices
Press Release
September 16, 2024
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From the Webinar Series, via the Buddy Visits, to the Lisbon Bootcamp: immerse yourself in the progress the CULTIVATEs' Food Sharing Initiatives have made so far
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A comprehensive approach to mental health
Infographic
September 15, 2024
op.europa.eu
There is no health without mental health. In a complex world full of change, people’s mental wellbeing is under significant pressure. The Commission’s comprehensive approach to mental health, adopted in June 2023,...
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Food is for Everyone: CLEVERFOOD project shapes the European f...
Press Release
September 9, 2024
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Are you working for a fairer food system? Join our campaign for a #FairFoodRevolution
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Partnership evaluation report - EIT Food
Publication
September 3, 2024
op.europa.eu
This evaluation report is part of the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe activities related to the Green Transition. It presents the assessment of the EIT Food against the evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence...
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A new exhibition wants to spark dialogue and action for a heal...
Press Release
September 3, 2024
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The "CLEVERFOOD for everyone” exhibition takes its name from the EU-funded project launching it. What people eat has a significant impact on health, society and the planet. Through this exhibition, EU citizens of al...
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How science supported EU policy making in ensuring safe and re...
Report
September 3, 2024
op.europa.eu
In response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the needs of EU Member States and policy makers related to antigen testing, DG SANTE and the JRC set up a structured targeted approach, which also facil...
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HIV stigma in the healthcare setting - Monitoring implementati...
Publication
August 22, 2024
op.europa.eu
If the AIDS epidemic is to be brought to end by 2030, it is crucial to combat HIV-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings, as per United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 3 Target 3.3 [1] and ...
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A Practical Guide to the Market in Australia for European Agri...
Guide
August 21, 2024
op.europa.eu
This Handbook is intended to act as a reference for those agri-food producers planning for, or in the process of entering, the Australian market. This Handbook provides step-by-step guides on entering the agri-food ma...
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The food and beverage market entry handbook- Thailand
Guide
August 21, 2024
op.europa.eu
This Handbook is intended to act as a reference for those agri-food producers planning for, or in the process of entering, the Thai market. This Handbook provides step-by-step guides on entering the agri-food market i...
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Sustainable food system project releases explainer video
Press Release
July 26, 2024
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DARWIN is excited to announce the release of its official presentation video showing how the project aims to create fair and sustainable food systems
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Is the EU Prepared to Face Potential Future Pandemics?
Press Release
July 9, 2024
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PAIR releases its project presentation video to show the pathway toward European pandemic preparedness.
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Health
Fighting cancer with nanoparticles: watch the ULISES Video New...
Press Release
June 21, 2024
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Nanoparticles may be the future of the fight against pancreatic cancer, but also tumours that currently have no cure options. A video news release provides a synthesis of the ULISES project milestones.
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CLEVERFOOD Peer-Learning Program: First call for participants
Press Release
May 30, 2024
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European project CLEVERFOOD launches a peer-learning program to select 20 demonstrators and 40 fellows.
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Health
Meet the team: A chat with Victor Pallaruelo (Author of the fi...
Press Release
May 27, 2024
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In this interview, dr. Victor Pallaruelo, the first author of the technical concept of ULISES, explains his role in the project.
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Prevent waste coalition policy briefing feasibility of ambitio...
Policy Brief
May 7, 2024
zerowasteeurope.eu
Prevent waste coalition policy briefing feasibility of ambitious legally binding EU food waste reduction targets
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Meet the Team: A chat with Eric Spierings (University Medical ...
Press Release
May 6, 2024
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Eric Spierings, Associate Professor and Medical Immunologist at the University Medical Center of Utrecht, explains to us how his team is contributing to ULISES’ goals in fighting cancer.
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Promoting access to healthy and environmentally friendly food ...
Policy Recommendation
April 9, 2024
Yellow Window
Access to healthy and environmentally friendly food is limited, especially for those living in marginalised urban (and rural) areas. It often requires much time to find and access food that is locally produced, season...
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The Global Subnational Agricultural Production (GSAP) database...
Policy Brief
April 4, 2024
sei.org
The Global Subnational Agricultural Production (GSAP) database: data for empowering food security worldwide
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Meet the team: a chat with Sebastiaan Heidt (Leiden University...
Press Release
April 3, 2024
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In this interview, Dr. Heidt explains the contribution of Leiden University Medical Center to the immunological part of ULISES.
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The first CULTIVATE Mobile Research Lab on food sharing in Bar...
Press Release
March 26, 2024
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Exploring Barcelona's food sharing ecosystem, the first CULTIVATE Mobile Research Lab embarked on a transformative journey from March 18th to 23rd, 2024.
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New genomic techniques project set to make food system more su...
Press Release
March 26, 2024
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The new EU-funded project DARWIN will co-develop new-generation NGT detection methods and new digital solutions to help create a fair, healthy, safe and environmentally friendly food system.
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“Reinventing the wheel” in the struggle to cut global wast...
Press Release
March 8, 2024
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Food waste is a large contributor to global warming. Increasing efforts are being made to “upcycle” ingredients that are not normally eaten, but “time is running out", says the International Food Waste Coalition...
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Meet the team: a chat with Alfredo Minguela Puras (Biomedical ...
Press Release
March 4, 2024
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In this interview, dr. Alfredo Minguela Puras, from the Biomedical Research Institute of Murcia, explains how his team is validating the ULISES therapy developed by the consortium through in vitro and in vivo (in huma...
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New project PAIR – set to pioneer two interactive tools as p...
Press Release
January 26, 2024
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PAIR is a new EU-funded project that aims to make radical improvements to Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostics and epidemiological modeling in the One Health approach through scientific research and innovation.
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EU project releases policy brief on urban food sharing governa...
Press Release
January 17, 2024
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Read the first CULTIVATE policy brief which summarizes food sharing initiatives key governance barriers and extracts a suite of high-level policy recommendations to address them.
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Meet FOOD 2030 Networks in our introduction video
Press Release
January 8, 2024
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Making the food system better for people and the environment: discover our goals and join us
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EU-funded projects reunited for advocating for stringent food ...
Press Release
December 7, 2023
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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PROJECTS ALIGN WITH EC'S CALL FOR ACTION, URGING POLICY CONSISTENCY AND COMPREHENSIVE MEASURES TO ADDRESS FOOD WASTE CRISIS ACROSS EU MEMBER STATES
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Health
From death to discrimination sentence: when surviving cancer e...
Press Release
December 6, 2023
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Being denied loans and adoptions, because of one’s medical records. The ‘return to life of many cancer survivors is a history of discrimination. European institutions and some member states are pushing for their �...
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Quels arbitrages politiques pour l’affichage environnemental...
Policy Brief
November 24, 2023
iddri.org
Quels arbitrages politiques pour l’affichage environnemental alimentaire ?
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Espigoladors leads successful 3rd Gleaning Marathon
Press Release
October 25, 2023
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Transforming leftovers into lifelines: over 8,730 kg of produce rescued, highlighting the environmental and social impact of food recovery.
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Meet Ulises: A chat with Ramón Martínez Máñez (UPV)
Press Release
October 5, 2023
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Ramón Martínez Máñez, professor at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), explains in this interview how his company is contributing to the ULISES goals in the fight against cancer.
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Transition vers l’alimentation durable : risques et leviers ...
Policy Brief
September 21, 2023
iddri.org
Transition vers l’alimentation durable : risques et leviers pour la grande distribution
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Food sharing: From group kitchens to cutting waste, the drive ...
Press Release
September 29, 2023
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Locals and refugees cooking and eating together, “edible neighbourhoods” and surplus redistribution. How a digital compass will help people get oriented among food sharing schemes and issue a call to policy makers...
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Who takes care of healthcare? When being sick is not a right f...
Press Release
July 6, 2023
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In France, 9 million people struggle to access general practitioners. Worldwide, half of the population has fewer primary care resources than their urban counterparts. When living in rural areas turns into a nightmare...
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The Human Costs of the Food Crisis How Price Spikes are Wreaki...
Publication
June 19, 2023
actionaid.org
The Human Costs of the Food Crisis How Price Spikes are Wreaking Havoc Across the Globe
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Minimum sustainability requirements: A key pillar for the Sust...
Policy Brief
June 22, 2023
iddri.org
Minimum sustainability requirements: A key pillar for the Sustainable Food Systems Framework Law
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New project cultivates the change for a sustainable and resili...
Press Release
April 4, 2023
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The CULTIVATE EU-funded project aims to increase awareness and knowledge of Food Sharing Initiatives (FSIs), understand what drives or hampers their practice, and foster sustainability, inclusion, and resilience in ur...
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Health
A cut woman is the pride of all her relatives: a situation ana...
Report
November 30, 2022
odi.org
A cut woman is the pride of all her relatives: a situation analysis of female genital mutilation in Mali
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CLEVERFOOD: leading an urgent change in food systems for a bet...
Press Release
March 17, 2023
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Together with University of Copenhagen an EU project is helping Europeans to embrace a sustainable and circular food system.
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If you have long covid the pandemic is far from being over
Press Release
March 7, 2023
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A video interview with a patient advocate features the burden of long covid and how we can address it
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Fighting cancer: when survival depends on geography and education
Press Release
February 27, 2023
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If you’re just born in the wrong country, or social class, you may have 60% less chance of surviving cancer. On World Cancer Day, experts call to fight “inequities”: not a matter of chance, but of modifiable fac...
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Women Environmental Defenders and Covid-19: Lessons for Transf...
Policy Brief
September 15, 2022
sei.org
Women Environmental Defenders and Covid-19: Lessons for Transformative Disaster Risk Reduction
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Are we all equal in facing Covid-19?
Press Release
January 13, 2023
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A video interview with a researcher in molecular biology discusses the factors that affect each individual’s response to Covid-19 and the tool that can be used by public health officers to predict it
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Painting and writing to fight cancer: the importance of being ...
Press Release
December 23, 2022
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Developing art and creativity to improve the effectiveness and delivery of healthcare. From narrative medicine to the disclosure of one’s medical records on the net: how “open sourcing” feelings and fears can he...
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“In difficult times the bioeconomy is not a luxury, but a re...
Press Release
December 23, 2022
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The prices of fertilisers jumped by +116% in one year. While the Ukraine war and the energy crisis are stressing the urgency of ending Europe’s dependence on Russian imports, an EU-funded project aims at creating ne...
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Environmental food labelling: revealing visions of the future ...
Study
February 16, 2022
iddri.org
Environmental food labelling: revealing visions of the future food system to build a political compromise
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What can existing microdata tell us about transfer receipt amo...
Publication
October 20, 2022
odi.org
What can existing microdata tell us about transfer receipt among host and displaced populations?
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From the laboratory to the market: innovation in COVID-19 diag...
Press Release
September 30, 2022
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A video-interview with the Chief Executive Officer of a company from the CORONADX project discusses about bringing new diagnostic tests to the market
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Guidance for evaluating the food contact status of adhesives c...
Guide
June 21, 2022
feica.eu
Guidance for evaluating the food contact status of adhesives containing mineral oil hydrocarbons
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The generation of food waste and food loss in the Estonian foo...
Working Paper
May 16, 2022
sei.org
The generation of food waste and food loss in the Estonian food supply chain
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Early signs support revolutionary potential of EU clinical tri...
Press Release
June 1, 2022
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The EU Clinical Trials Regulation should help resolve problems caused by its predecessor directive and help meet needs arising from the pandemic. There will be challenges in doing so, but there is already strong evide...
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Public health research and data sharing: Data saves lives (eng...
Report
May 30, 2022
Roche Pharma AG
The digital networking of health data is intended to ensure patient-oriented healthcare and simultaneously generate knowledge.Digital infrastructures are essential for the availability of treatment and research data. ...
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Living with covid-19 will need a testing transformation
Press Release
May 20, 2022
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Dealing with lower covid-19 levels will require improved understanding of what diagnostic tests are best used for. It will also need more accurate tests, but as testing demand will fall, delivering that needs incentiv...
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Public health research and data sharing: Data saves lives
Report
May 19, 2022
Roche Pharma AG
Die digitale Vernetzung von Gesundheitsdaten soll eine patientenorientierte und gleichzeitig wissensgenerierende Gesundheitsversorgung sicherstellen. Digitale Infrastrukturen sind für diVerfügbarkeit von Daten aus V...
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Working as a researcher in a time of pandemic
Press Release
April 28, 2022
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A video-interview with a post-doc from the CORONADX project features the experience of working as a scientist at the frontline of COVID-19 research
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Monitoring G20 contributions to global Covid-19 health equity:...
Policy Brief
March 30, 2022
odi.org
Monitoring G20 contributions to global Covid-19 health equity: issues and options
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Debunking myths about COVID-19 diagnostic tests
Press Release
April 5, 2022
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The EU project CORONADX has published a leaflet with a collection of common misconceptions on COVID-19 diagnostic tests to help citizens navigate between truth and falsehoods.
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Building a European Health Union: Opening borders for intensiv...
Policy Brief
March 22, 2022
epc.eu
Building a European Health Union: Opening borders for intensive care specialists
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