Supporting Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals

The ASPHER Core Curriculum Programme is a vital capacity and curriculum bulding project. Development of core public health competencies has been a common theme within ASPHER’s operations since 2006. The Core Curriculum Programme strives to address the new normal which has enveloped the public health landscape after the global pandemic of COVID-19 and other crises.

Learn more from the CCP website.

The 2023 Andrija Štampar Medal has been awarded to Prof Anders Foldspang, Professor Emeritus, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

Professor Anders Foldspang is professor emeritus at the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark. During his career, he led a large number of public health education programmes, held expert positions in the Nordic region, was active in the Nordic Federation for Medical Education, was a member of the board of ASPHER and was President of ASPHER in 2006-2007.

Read more about Anders Foldspang and other ASPHER 2023 Award winners here.

ASPHER’s Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is looking for new members!

The goal of the programme is to incorporate public health students and professionals early in their career with the ASPHER network.

The YPP is a great opportunity to join a supportive community of other young public health professionals, and provides the potential to join research collaborations with researchers from around the World. 

Applications are open October 6th - November 3rd (11:59pm CET), 2023.

Learn more about the call here.

ASPHER and EPHA in the context of the 17th World Congress on Public Health launched a manifesto calling for 'UNITED PUBLIC HEALTH ACTION AND ADVOCACY CENTRED ON: PEOPLE AND PLANET, EVIDENCE, TRUST, PARTNERSHIP, INVESTMENT.'

The Manifesto includes five actionable points in order to advance public health universally and advocate for the common good.

Read and download the Advancing Public Health Advocacy Manifesto here!

These syllabi provide hands-on material for people engaged in public health education on health inequities, social injustices and diversity enabling students to:

- identify mechanisms of privilege and oppression related to social identities,

- determine awareness of one’s own social identities and their relevance in the public health landscape,

- learn how to determine biases within public health structures (and oneself),

- address and change biases in their practices to ultimately reduce health inequities. 

Learn more and download the syllabi here.

The FINAL Joint Statement by the ASPHER led EU Health Policy Platform’s thematic network on “Climate action through public health education and training” is now available for download.

Continue to stay updated through the EU Health Policy Platform! where the thematic network has shifted to an Exchange Network.

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.

Learn more about all ASPHER's Climate and Health Actions here.

In response to the war in Ukraine, ASPHER has convened a Task Force on War. 

The Task Force has published a Roadmap to Developing ASPHER Technical Guidance Notes on War and Health. The overall aim of this document is to outline a roadmap leading to the development of a series of technical guidance notes to inform the response of the ASPHER community to the Russian war on Ukraine. 

ASPHER has released a statement on the role of Europe’s Schools of Public Health in times of war. The published version is available here. (Translated versions are available here)

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