Health Programme












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            * EU4Health 2021-2027
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            EU4Health is the EU’s ambitious response to COVID-19. The pandemic has a major impact on p
            and healthcare staff, and health systems in Europe. The new EU4Health programme will go be
            response to address healthcare systems’ resilience. 


            EU4Health, established by Regulation (EU) 2021/522 [ URL "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
            TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2021.107.01.0001.01.ENG"] , will provide funding to eligible entiti

            organisations and NGOs from EU countries, or non-EU countries associated to the programme.
            Areas of action

            With EU4Health, the EU will invest €5.3 billion in current prices in actions with an EU ad
            complementing EU countries’ policies and pursuing one or several of EU4Health´s objectives



            The 10 specific objectives under the 4 general goals are:


            1.To improve and foster health in the Union
              • disease prevention & health promotion
              • international health initiatives & cooperation

            2.To tackle cross-border health threats
              • prevention, preparedness & response to cross-border health threats
              • complementing national stockpiling of essential crisis-relevant products

              • establishing a reserve of medical, healthcare & support staff 
            3.To improve medicinal products, medical devices and crisis-relevant products
              • making medicinal products, medical devices and crisis-relevant products available and 

            4.To strengthen health systems, their resilience and resource efficiency
              • strengthening health data, digital tools & services, digital transformation of healthc
              • improving access to healthcare

              • developing and implementing EU health legislation and evidence-based decision making 
              • integrated work among national health systems
            EU4Health will pave the way to a European Health Union [ URL "https://ec.europa.eu/info/st

            priorities-2019-2024/promoting-our-european-way-life/european-health-union_en"]  by invest
            health priorities:


            • the response to the COVID-19 crisis [ URL "https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu
              response/public-health_en"]  and reinforcing the EU’s resilience for cross-border health
              "https://ec.europa.eu/health/security/overview_en"]

            • Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan [ URL "https://ec.europa.eu/health/non_communicable_disease
              and 
            • the Pharmaceutical Strategy [ URL "https://ec.europa.eu/health/human-use/strategy_en"]  

            Other areas, such as health systems’ digitalisation [ URL "https://ec.europa.eu/health/ehe
            reducing the number of antimicrobial-resistant infections [ URL "https://ec.europa.eu/heal
            resistance/eu-action-on-antimicrobial-resistance_en"]  and improving vaccination [ URL "ht

            ec.europa.eu/health/vaccination/overview_en"]  rates will also be boosted.

            The EU will expand successful initiatives like the European Reference Networks [ URL "http

            health/ern_en"]  for rare diseases and continue to pursue international cooperation [ URL 
            ec.europa.eu/health/international_cooperation/overview_en"]  on global health threats and 


            Information about other tools, previous programmes and synergies and complementarities wit
            be found here [ URL "https://ec.europa.eu/health/funding/eu4health_en"] ,