Malta 2012: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN
We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for Malta 2012 is now open.

The abstract submission just opened for business and will stay open until 1 May 2012, midnight CET.

New:
• You can now choose two topics per abstract.
• You can add keywords to your abstract (maximum 3).

After 5 May, the International Scientific Committee, chaired by Dr Julian Mamo, Malta, will score all the abstracts. The decision on acceptance or rejection of your abstract should be send to you by 30 June 2012.

New EUPHActs published on the topic of health data and research. Download it here.

The EUPHA sections Public health monitoring and reporting, Ethics in public health, Urban public health and Public health genomics took the initiative for this new EUPHActs. The EUPHA Executive Council welcomed and approved it. Publication date is 27 January 2012.

EUPHA just published its Annual report 2011.

EUPHA celebrates its 20th anniversary! This year, EUPHA exists 20 years and we are planning a number of festive activities.

A 20 years EUPHA committee was established by the Executive Council meeting in November 2011. The chair of this committee is Prof. Diana Delnoij. One of the core activities will be the EUPHA party during the 5th European Public Health Conference in Malta.

Copenhagen 2011: More pictures available here.

Dr Ole Refstrup of the Danish Society of Public health is kindly sharing his pictures of Copenhagen here!

The newest picture update is provided by Markus Kaufmann, treasurer of EUPHA.

Copenhagen 2011: the closing session just finished. What a successful conference it has been.

Copenhagen 2011 had just under 1500 participants. In the closing session, Prof. Johan Mackenbach, winner of the award of the Danish Society of Public Health, summarised the conference in 10 minutes. The abstracts and numerous posters will be available shortly on EUPHApedia.

STEPS Report: Public Health Research - Europe's Future presented at European Commission meeting The STEPS Report calls for greater collaboration between ministries of health with the European Union in developing health research, and greater engagement of researchers and civil society in setting agendas and priorities.

The STEPS report was presented by the Coordinator, Professor Mark McCarthy, at the European Health Policy Forum in Brussels on 12 October 2011. The Health Policy Forum is organised by the European Commission's Directorate for Health and Consumers ('DG SANCO') and brings together 55 European representative organisations for regular discussion with the European Commission's officers.

The Report was received positively, and the meeting encouraged the STEPS work to be presented at the next meeting of the Working Party on Public Health at Senior Level, a European Council body formed of Member States' representatives. The next meeting of the WP is February 2012.

The Report was also presented at the European Health Forum Gastein, a conference of 600 European health officials, academics and industry representatives which is held annually at Bad Gastein, Austria. The European Health Forum Gastein also discussed the development of social innovation to provide the evidence-base for policy and practice.

For more information on STEPS: www.steps-ph.eu