Road Map to Professionalizing the Public Health Workforce

ASPHER and WHO have launched the Road Map to Professionalizing the Public Health Workforce. This Road Map offers pragmatic recommendations for action to professionalize the public health workforce as a response to growing public health needs; it puts forward levers that can be engaged to do so. It embraces, by necessity, a cross-sectoral and cross-disciplinary approach that provides clarity about the scope and the specific competencies required, identifies key action areas for professionals and identifies the roles of the various actors.

Learn more and download the Road Map here.

Watch the launch webinar recording here!

The Roadmap works in synergy with the WHO-ASPHER Competency Framework for the Public Health Workforce, part of the ongoing ASPHER Programme for Public Health Competencies 

Call for Abstracts! Deadline 1 April 2022

The 2022 ASPHER Young Researchers Forum (YRF) will be held on 9 June as part of the 15th International Scientific Conference: Digitalisation and Education in Health Sciences on 9 June 2022 hosted by Angela Boskin Faculty of Health Care. 

This will be a hybrid event on Zoom and in Bled, Slovenia

We invite students, post docs, junior faculty and recent graduates of ASPHER member instititions to submit abstracts - download submission instructions here.

See the event announcement for more information!

Final webinar: Thematic network on Climate and Health in Europe

Friday 11 March 15:00-16:15 CET

Please join us on Friday 11 March 15:00-16:15 CET for the final webinar of the HPP Thematic network on Climate and Health in Europe. Don’t miss this last opportunity to get engaged and provide input on the subsequent joint statement!

Learn more and link to register here.

Also don't miss the ASPHER Climate and Health Competencies for Public Health Professionals in Europe to support public health schools to implement education and training for public health professionals in the area of climate and health.

The final Phase 3 Survey is now open. Fill the Survey here!

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered the education environment and few national authorities had specific guidance in place for reopening higher education campuses.

European SPH could play a critical role in policy and guideline development. By promoting dialogue, SPH can better design and enact policies and recommendations relevant to them. 

ASPHER has conducted a rapid review survey in two phases of school reopening plans for a selection of programmes from our Member Network.

Read the Phase 1 July 2020 Report here.

Read the Phase 2 January 2021 Report here.

Global Network for Academic Public (GNAPH) and World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA) Joint Statement:

Waive Vaccine Intellectual Property Rights Now!

Vaccine equity means a fair distribution of vaccine, so that all countries can immunise their populations.

There must be a Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver now and change in the future intellectual property environment for all current and future SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

Read the summary statement, and ASPHER's report.

The Vaccine Waiver statement has been sent in a letter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in advance of its Minsterial Conference.

To endorse the statement, contact office@aspher.org.

Global Network for Academic Health Declaration:

Global governance for improved human, animal, and planetary health: the essential role of schools and programs of public health

Schools and programs of public health have a crucial role in the current pandemic and in developing standards and competence for better public health as well as the public health knowledge and skills shown by the pandemic to be in need of massive expansion.

We hope our member schools and programs of public health will use the declaration in their evidence to national governments, and health and education ministries, to make the case for enhanced public health education. 

Download the Declaration here.

ASPHER has an active Covid-19 Task Force made up of international experts who are actively engaged with responding to the most current public health challenges from the pandemic. 

We invite you to check back to the Task Force webpage regularly for updates as well as a weekly European situation report. 

All ASPHER Members are welcome to join the Task Force which meets weekly. Let us know if a representative from your programme would like to get involved.

FOR SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH: This site will facilitate your becoming part of a vibrant, dynamic community of schools of public health. Share best practices and learn from one another.

FOR PROSPECTIVE AND CURRENT STUDENTS: Here you can learn about and compare different offers from schools of public health. Assess and map out your prospects for career development.

FOR ALUMNI AND ALL PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Here you can obtain career guidance and learn about continuing professional development opportunities in the public health arena.

FOR PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM PLANNERS: Find resources on the public health workforce development. Review and compare school profiles, public health education and training schemes in Europe.

DOWNLOAD the ASPHER 2020-2025 Strategic Plan.