Dear members of the EUPHA Health promotion section,

We hope you are doing well.

Since our last newsletter, we nominated the members of our steering committee (see table below). The committee includes 14 members coming from Europe’s four corners. All in all, and with the president and VP included, 14 countries are represented. We took great care to make sure that we included colleagues from Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Europe. They make for a rich mix of profiles; some being public health professionals, academics, some working for universities, government agencies, and NGOs. When scrolling the list of applicants, we were also looking at a broad spectrum of expertise.

In the next months, you will hear more from us as we are gathering speed and gaining in capacity to organize activities and mobilise members.

We are a 5000-member strong EUPHA section- this is to say that there is much we can do together to advance health promotion practice and research and influence policy-making. A significant share of our members are also from outside Europe. Needless to say that we also value your input.

Besides our regular Newsletters, we plan to organise a series of webinars on topics you deem important and may at some point carry out surveys within our ranks to get a better sense of the state of the health promotion field in Europe.

For the newsletter, we wish to make it as informative and useful as possible. We will experiment a structure that will get you quickly to the information you need. We also want to give you space to get the word out regarding your achievements and the events you organise and would like to promote. You can also use this venue to make a call to your fellow members to get some help on a project or reflect on an issue. The section is all about networking and joining forces.

Your feedback will always be welcomed and help us serve you better.

Thank you for reading.

Eric Breton, President and Camila Picchio, Vice-President
And the members of the Steering Committee

EPH Conference in Lisbon (Call for abstracts closes on May 1^st at 18.00 CET)

This year the European Public Health Conference will be hosted in Lisbon from November 13 to 15. There is still time to submit an abstract for a single abstract or a workshop. For a workshop, the section can help you find co-speakers for your panel. Just fill out this form with a few lines on your topic with your contact details and will forward it to the members. More information here.

Ursula Grieble from Austria who sits on our steering committee has proposed to organise a workshop on Community participation/ engagement. If you have some results, you’d like to present, please send her a few lines describing your potential contribution by Thursday 25 April (ursula.griebler@donau-uni.ac.at)

Evidence-based health promotion or critical discussions on methods, designs especially in complex setting-based interventions rank among the topical issues we would like to see address. So do not hesitate and we will get back to you shortly.

IUHPE European Conference in Lodz

As members of the European health promotion community, our next rendez-vous is in Lodz (Poland) for the 12^th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion that will be held on June 17-18, 2024, immediately followed by the 7th International Conference on Salutogenesis, June 19-20. More info here.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Global Community Health Annual Workshop (4^th edition)

This is a 3-day online training programme in community health gathering hundreds of participants from all over the world. Its Fourth edition will be help from June 4 to 6. The workshop is for professionals, students, and researchers looking for ways to improve the health of communities. The 3 daily sessions always conclude with discussions in virtual breakout rooms in different languages. More info available here.

SHE Academy 2024

If you are interested in school health promotion and research within this area, please join this year’s SHE Academy 2024! The focus for this year will be on research at and with schools.

The 2024 SHE Academy will be held on the 3 and 4 of June 2024 via an online platform. The event is dedicated to Ph.D. students with an interest in school health research, Researchers/academics and policymakers, Teachers, pedagogues, and other practi-tioners. Participation in the event is free, but it is required to register by May 20th, 2024, using this link.

News from the HP Section Steering Committee

In late May, we will organise the kick-off webinar “Evidence for health promotion” [provisional title] to jump start our activities for this year. We aim to showcase evaluative approaches, strategies, and methodologies that can be used to establish the effectiveness of health promotion interventions. We are especially interested in actions/ programmes intended to change a life setting (e.g. a school, a workplace), a community, a system of actors or that aim at building capacities to address the social determinants of health. If you are interested to present please fill in this form.

Next fall, at least two other webinars are envisioned for which we are seeking your expertise:

First one, organised by Chrysanthi Tatsi, is on the contribution of health promotion in crisis settings complex emergencies. Chrysa is herself much involved in providing support to refugees and in humanitarian actions. If you think you can contribute, please fill in this form.

Second one, would evolve around the teaching of/ training in health promotion and health promotion universities. Kevin Dadaczynski & Karina Leksy are taking the lead on this one. You wish to contribute, please feel in the form.

If there are topics you would like to see addressed in our webinar series during the 2024 calendar year, please let us know by filling out this form.

News from our members

Next time we hope to see this section featuring your news.

Members of the Steering Committee of the EUPHA Health promotion section

• Chrysanthi Tatsi, MdM Germany and University of Cagliari, Greece
• Dulce Maria do Nascimento do Ó, APDP Diabetes Portugal, Portugal
• Ekaterina Volevach, The International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital Brno, Czechia
• Elisabeth Noehammer, Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, Austria
• John Dierx, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
• Karina Leksy, University of Silesia, Poland
• Kevin Dadaczynski, Fulda University of Applied Science, Germany
• Michelle Baybutt, Healthy & Sustainable Settings Unit, University of Central Lancashire, England
• Monica O'Mullane, University College Cork, Ireland
• Roosa-Maria Savela, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
• Sherihane Bensemmane, Sciensano (National Institute for health), Belgium
• Suzannah D'Hooghe, Sciensano, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium
• Ursula Griebler, University for Continuing Education Krems and Cochrane Austria, Austria