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A shared vision for 2025–2030

By 2030, EUPHA envisions a stronger, more connected public health community driving real change across Europe. Our strategy is rooted in the belief that public health must be inclusive, evidence-based, and future-facing.

Co-designed through a participatory process and formally adopted by our General Assembly in Lisbon in 2024, our strategy reflects the shared priorities of our members, Sections, and partners.

To achieve our mission, we have 4 strategic objectives:

  • Building bridges between science and policy: Ensuring cutting-edge research translates into policies that are evidence-informed and values-driven.
  • Empowering national public health associations: Supporting them to implement evidence-based strategies, reach out to populations, and amplify their voices in national and European policymaking through a peer-to-peer network.
  • Fostering health for all policies and innovation: Promoting partnerships beyond the health sector and across government levels and leveraging technical, organisational, and social innovations.
  • Building capacities for public health: Providing continuous education, training, and leadership development to equip the actual and thenext generation of public health professionals.

At the heart of this work is our commitment to impact, equity, and collaboration. We are guided by four strategic pillars – our Four Es – which shape how we work, who we work with, and the change we aim to create.

The Four Es

Evidence

Advance science-based policy and practice: Advance high-quality, actionable research to guide rigorous, impactful, and evidence-based public health strategies, and empower researchers and public health professionals by supporting them in translating, and applying evidence to shape policies, strategies, and communications effectively.

Our priorities

EUPHA’s strategy aligns with the most pressing public health challenges and opportunities facing Europe today. Our work is grounded in evidence, shaped by the voices of our members, and driven by a shared commitment to advancing health for all.

Our nine strategic priorities are:

  • Health equity and social determinants: Address social determinants of health and reduce disparities across populations.
  • One Health, planetary health, climate and environmental health: Integrate sustainable practices into public health strategies.
  • Health and innovation: Leverage technical, organisational, and social innovations, digital and low-tech, to exploit the opportunities they offer to improve people’s health while minimising any risks.
  • Mental health and wellbeing: Give mental health parity with physical health in all policies.
  • Resilience and preparedness: Strengthen the resilience of communities and health systems in the face of future public health emergencies, e.g. with robust surveillance frameworks that monitor and respond to emerging health and safety threats effectively.
  • Commercial determinants of health: Confront those commercial producers of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, and ultra-processed foods, challenging the narratives they create and working with others to reveal their tactics and challenge their power.
  • Public health workforce: Strengthen the public health workforce through continuous education, skill-building, and leadership training, ensuring professionals are well-equipped to tackle present and future public health challenges.
  • Child and adolescent public health from the first 1000 days, Health in School and Adolescent and young people’s health especially mental health.
  • Ageing populations: Healthy ageing and challenges of loneliness and ageism. Address the overwhelming burden imposed by multimorbidity, particularly in the context of ageing populations living with multiple chronic conditions. Develop strategies to manage these complex health needs in public health systems.

Our work is informed by the voices of our members, the evidence we help generate, and our deep commitment to advancing public health for all.

Read the full strategy

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