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To achieve a strong Europe, we need leaders unafraid to prioritise health

Blogpost by Genon K. Jensen, HEAL founder and Executive Director on the need to prioritise health in the 2024 EU elections: it is time policymakers take strong and consistent action to address climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution for their constituents' benefit.

HEAL’s response to the public consultation on a proposal for an EU PFAS Restriction

HEAL’s response to the public consultation on a proposal for an EU PFAS Restriction.

Letter to Members of the European Parliament: Health call for swift pesticide reduction to prevent disease and save on healthcare costs

In view of the upcoming plenary vote on the Regulation on the Sustainable use of Pesticide Regulation (SUR) on 22 November, health organisations call on MEPs to swiftly advance the SUR negotiations and strengthen the protection of people in Europe against hazardous pesticides, as a key law to prevent disease.

Celebrating 20 years of HEAL

Twenty years ago, I realised that environmental pollution is linked to ill health and serious acute and chronic diseases, like cancer, asthma and respiratory diseases. This is when I launched into my environmental health journey and founded HEAL. It became clear to me that our ways of living and the environmental pollution resulting from that impacted our health. I wanted to know more about the impacts and the extent, how much of it was preventable, and what role and power policy-making could have in it....

HEAL urges ministers to step up on action against pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss

During the 7th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, the Budapest Declaration to accelerate action for healthier people, a thriving planet and a sustainable future was adopted by health and environment ministers of countries of the WHO European region.

EU leadership on Green Deal and Zero Pollution action across the WHO European region

Ahead of the recent meeting of the WHO European Environment and Health Task Force, a briefing was held by the permanent representation of Hungary to the EU, where HEAL Executive Director Génon Jensen discussed HEAL’s perspectives on priorities and expectations from civil society. She called for action ahead of the Seventh Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health and offered a menu of issues that require ambitious and urgent policy action on environment and health in Europe, and in which the EU is poised to take a leadership role for the European region, as part of the implementation of the EU Green Deal, with its objective of zero pollution and do no harm at its core.

Are you HEAL’s new Advocacy and Campaigns Officer?

Help us create a toxic-free environment by 2030 The evidence on how hazardous chemicals and pesticides impact people’s health and contribute to rising rates of cancer and other ill-health has…

Call for applications: Advocacy and Campaigns Officer (Health and Chemicals)

The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is recruiting a new Advocacy and Campaigns Officer to implement advocacy and campaign action plans on key files of the Health and Chemicals Programme,…

Environmental health groups urge national governments to play their part to ensure reforms of key chemical legislations make speedy progress

HEAL and 14 environmental health organisations call on European governments to keep pressing the European Commission to deliver the promised reforms of the REACH and CLP regulations, and to support the proposal for a new pesticide reduction law.

Current pesticide reduction measures fail to protect vulnerable groups from pesticide pollution, new study from Italy shows

A study carried out in the Italian province of Bolzano-South Tyrol reveals that despite measures taken by local authorities to reduce pesticide pollution, synthetic pesticides that can harm health and the environment are still detected in nearby children's playgrounds and schoolyards.

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