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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...
Albania published its 2014 National Health Report
Titled “The Health Status of the Albanian Population”, the 2014 National Health Report of Albania was published by the Institute of Public Health of Albania with the support of the UNICEF country office. Based upon a desk review of the official sources of information...
SEEHN features in the SEE Journal of Public Health
An open-access international peer-reviewed journal involving all areas of health sciences and public health in particular, the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) recently published a review paper titled “The South Eastern Europe Health Network: A...
Semi-annual Report of the RHDC on Organ Donation and Transplant Medicine
Over the past six months, the SEEHN Regional Health Development Centre on Organ Donation and Transplant Medicine, located in Croatia, carried out a series of activities with the aim to improve transplantation programs in the SEE region. Semi-annual activities...
The Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the SEEHN successfully organized in Skopje
Preceding the 34th SEEHN Plenary Meeting (19-20 November 2014), the Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the SEE Health Network was successfully organized on 18 November 2014 in Skopje. The attending ministries of health and official representatives of all SEEHN...
Skopje hosts the forthcoming Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the SEEHN
The forthcoming Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the South-eastern Europe Health Network will take place on November 18, 2014 in Skopje. Its realization is of undisputed importance given the context of the political, economic, social and health changes that have...
The 34th Plenary Meeting of SEEHN starts in a week
Organized and hosted by the Macedonian presidency of the South-eastern Europe Health Network, the 34th Plenary Meeting will be held on 19-20 November 2014 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. This event will be attended by the national health coordinators of the SEEHN...
Health workforce in the focus of a Multi-country workshop in Slovenia
Recognizing the fundamental importance of a sustainable and well-performing health workforce which is the backbone of an effective health system, as well as the need to address health workforce challenges in countries and introduce mechanisms to improve and promote...
The Health Diplomacy Course – another successful SEEHN story
Having become a strong partner in health collaboration at European level and having obtained a growing influence on the European health policy agendas in the past 10 years, the South-Eastern Europe Health Network together with the World Health Organization (WHO)...
SEEHN took part in the 17th edition of the European Health Forum Gastein
As a main contributor and promoter of the health dimension in the SEE 2020 Strategy, the South East Europe Health Network participated in the leading health policy event in the EU – the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) – which was held on October 1-3, 2014 in the...
“Health for Jobs and prosperity in SEE”: SEEHN Workshop at the 17th European Health Forum Gastein
It is with utmost pleasure that we announce the participation of the South-Eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) at the 17th edition of the European Health Forum Gastein (October 1-3, 2014). Organized annually in the Gastein Valley in Austria ever since 1998, the...
Ebola: an open letter to European governments
Considering the Ebola epidemic as a public health imperative that might as well become a geopolitical crisis if uncontrolled, 44 prominent academics, clinicians, and health professionals from 15 European countries call for EU Member States to mobilise all possible...
The Presidency of the SEEHN of the Republic of Macedonia
Meeting of Mr Nikola Todorov, Minister of Health with the Ambassadors of the SEEHN Member states On September 10, 2014, Mr Nikola Todorov, Minister of Health of the Republic of Macedonia met with the ambassadors of the SEEHN Member states… At the premises of the...
SEE 2020 Strategy “Jobs and Prosperity in a European Perspective” adopted
On November 21, 2013 in Sarajevo during the Ministerial Conference of the South East Europe Investment Committee, co-chaired by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the RCC, the SEE 2020 Strategy was adopted by the ministers of economy of the Albania, Bosnia...
SEEHN DG SANCO and EC TAIEX Meeting in Brussels
On 28 April 2014, SEEHN Executive Board members met with representatives of EC DG SANCO D1 and EC TAIEX in Brussels to discuss the potentials for and more strategic approach to their collaboration. SEEHN was represented by Dr. Goran Cerkez - Chairperson of the SEEHN...