Working groups
& alliances
EuroHealthNet works with many European and global organisations and networks. Consequently, to maximise its impacts in the public health and social arena. Among our most important collaborations is our Memorandum of Understanding with WHO Europe.
Working Groups
Thematic Working Groups (TWIGS)
Thematic Working Groups (TWIGs) provide a space for EuroHealthNet Members and Associate Members to exchange and work together on a specific topic of mutual interest. It to brings together specialists on key subjects chosen by Members so they can stay up-to-date, pool knowledge, and build common positions.
TWIGs are member-led, whereby one or more Members set the agenda, chair meetings and lead on jointly agreed activities. EuroHealthNet provides coordination and technical support by hosting and minuting meetings, facilitating communication amongst Members, and providing input from and taking relevant action at the EU level.
Resources:
Communications Network
EuroHealthNet’s communication network brings together nearly 50 communications professionals across Europe. Including EuroHealthNet member organisations. The group is a space for exchange of expertise and resources. Therefore, to help members raise interests and concerns at an international level, and in addition, to increase awareness of initiatives at European, national, and regional levels.
Find out more about the communications network
Partnerships
and alliances
EuroHealthNet has formed and joined partnerships. We collaborate and form alliances with a variety of organisations in the field of public health and social affairs. Amplifying our call for better health, equity and wellbeing.
World Health Organization Europe – EuroHealthNet is an accredited non-state actor at WHO Europe. Whereby they participate as observers in Regional Committee sessions and to submit written and oral statements.
The EuroHealthNet office has been involved in various activities co-organised with WHO offices in Copenhagen for instance;. (on European Healthy Cities Network, NCDs, Migrants Health Network, and gender health), Bonn (on environment, circular economy and climate change), and Venice (on health equity and determinants of health).
CHAIN
is the Centre for Health Equity Analysis. CHAIN brings together researchers from all global regions and different research disciplines to advance the current state-of-the-art. It does this by offering new insights from social, laboratory-based and natural experiments, into the causal mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and health. It brings together academia, the UN system, civil society and the private sector in a common organisational body to reduce the distance between research, policy and practice.
EuroHealthNet is a partner in CHAIN’s Global Health Inequalities project (2019-2025), which aspires to make CHAIN a world-leading centre and research network for the international study of global health inequalities.
CHAIN and EuroHealthNet also collaborated on a review of health inequalities in Europe, captured in the 2025 report ‘Social inequalities in health: are countries closing the gap?‘
The European Alliance for Investing in Children promotes effective, child-centred policies and practice to tackle child poverty and promote child wellbeing. As part of the Alliance, EuroHealthNet plays an active role in continuing efforts to identify and spread the best policy entry points for effective, sustainable and timely implementation of the provisions outlined in the EC’s Recommendation on Investing in Children.
The SEEHN is a political and institutional forum set up by the governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. This forum aims to promote peace, reconciliation and health in the region. The Network provides leadership and helps sustain project ownership by the countries in the region. EuroHealthNet and SEEHN have a Memorandum of Understanding and cooperate to improve public health in South-Eastern Europe.
