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Migration and health in the focus of the High Level Meeting of the SEEHN
Under the current SEEHN presidency of the Ministry of Health of Albania, the Minister of Health of the Republic of Albania and current President of the Network Mr. Ilir Beqaj, organized a high-level Meeting and the 36th Plenary of the South-eastern Europe Health...
Countries of Southern Europe find common ground on Health Information
As part of the Albanian presidency of SEEHN (South East European Health Network), a two day workshop was held in Tirana, Albania, entitled Improving data for policy. Members of the Network, which includes representatives from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,...
High-level meeting on refugee and migrant health successfully organized in Rome, Italy
On 23-24 November 2015 in Rome, Italy, upon request at the 65th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe this September, the Italian Government and its Ministry of Health hosted a WHO High-level meeting on refugee and migrant health.nnThe attending Ministers...
South-east European countries begin shift towards transformative education for their health workforce
Preparing health professionals to meet the expanding health and social needs of ageing societies while enabling them to pursue rewarding career paths in their country of origin is a rising priority for governments in South-eastern Europe, whose health sectors have...
The Faculty of Public Health in Pleven successfully held its Jubilee Scientific Conference
The Jubilee Scientific Conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Faculty of Public Health in Pleven took place on 1-3 October 2015 under the title of “Public Health Policy and Practice”. Divided into three plenary sessions, various conference topics were...
Health ministers in South-Eastern Europe commit to achieving universal health coverage
Ministers from ten countries in the South-Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) met in Belgrade on 22-23 June 2015, and agreed on joint regional and national actions towards securing universal health coverage. In addition to promoting an equitable Europe free of...
Belgrade will host both the Ministerial and the 35th Plenary Meetings of the SEE Health Network
In view of the need for further strengthening of both regional collaboration for public health and the governance structures of the South-east Europe Health Network, an ad-hoc Meeting of the Ministers of Health of the SEEHN Member Countries titled “Further Steps to...
Preparatory Meeting on the SEEHN/WHO Europe co-organized Ministerial Meeting
[blank h="20"] [/blank] [column width="3/5" title="" title_type="single" animation="none" implicit="true"] On May 14-15, 2015 the National Health Coordinators, Executive Committee members and technical experts of the SEE Health Network got together with the WHO...
Managing the mobility of health professionals in the Republic of Moldova
Recognizing the seriousness of the health workforce migration in recent years and the negative effects of brain drain and brain waste, the Republic of Moldova implemented the project “Better Managing the Mobility of Health Professionals” under the coordination of the...
Focus on Transplantation news and the SEEHN Regional Health Development Centre on Organ Donation and Transplant medicine (RHDC) in Croatia
(Croatian Ministry of Health – Institute for Transplantation and Biomedicine) The SEEHN RHDC in Croatia is organizing jointly with TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument of the European Commission) on April 9 and 10 in Zagreb, another...
SEEJPH publishes its third volume
The third volume of the open-access international peer-reviewed South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) has been published online. The list of research articles and review papers addressing aspects of health sciences and public health in particular,...
EC TAIEX Multi-country Workshop on Public Health Policies on Migration and Health
A Multi-Country Workshop on Public Health Policies on Migration and Health was held in Tirana, Albania on 19–20 March 2015, gathering close to 60 participants from Member States of the SEEHN[1], Kosovo*[2] and Turkey. Organized by the Technical Assistance Information...
VIDEO: First workshop on self-assessment of EPHOs in Macedonia
The three-day Workshop on initiating the self-assessment process of the Essential Public Health Operations in Macedonia, held in Ohrid on August 25-27, 2014, gathered WHO experts and governmental representatives as well as nearly thirty stakeholders from the health...
Call for Applications: European Health Award 2015
In advance of the 18th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), this year themed “Securing Health in Europe - Balancing priorities, sharing responsibilities” which will take place in Austria´s Gastein Valley from 30th September to 2nd October 2015, the International...
Vacancies announcement within the SEEHN Secretariat
Nourishing Partnerships for Health: A Country Day devoted to the SEEHN to be held on the 9th of March 2015 at WHO Regional Office for Europe
The Country Day aims at improving WHO Europe’s interactions with and relevance for the member states of the South-Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN). It aims to build upon the ongoing collaboration and ensure a more coordinated approach to the existing...
The RHDC on Mental Health issues its fourth Newsletter
The Regional Health Development Center on Mental Health in SEE, based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, published its 4th Newsletter. Product of fruitful cooperation in the area of mental health between the SEEHN Member States and its partner countries and...
The Macedonian and Serbian governments’ joint session engenders bilateral cooperation in health
The governments of Macedonia and Serbia held a joint session in Skopje on Monday that ended with the two countries signing seven cooperation agreements. The two governments signed agreements on cooperation in business, tourism, science and education, culture,...
EC TAIEX Report of the Multi-country Workshop on Monitoring NCDs and Health Inequalities related to NCDs
Organized by the Technical Assistance Information Exchange instrument of the European Commission (TAIEX) in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Montenegro on behalf of SEEHN and the Regional Health Development Centre (RHDC) on NCDs of Montenegro, the...
The Sarajevo meeting paves the way for annual Donor Coordination Conferences in the Western Balkans
A two-day meeting on Donor Coordination in the Western Balkans was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina under the auspices of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC). Gathering nearly hundred participants from major donor countries and organizations, the meeting...
The Faculty of Public Health in Pleven calls for participants at its Jubilee Scientific Conference
Leading structure at the Medical Faculty and a solid educational center for training of public health professionals and managers, the Faculty of Public Health in Pleven, Bulgaria invites all interested colleagues and public health professionals to join its Jubilee...