{"id":51075,"date":"2024-09-10T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T09:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=51075"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:18:46","slug":"eu-and-canada-partner-to-tackle-global-health-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/eu-and-canada-partner-to-tackle-global-health-challenges\/51075\/","title":{"rendered":"EU and Canada launch policy dialogue to tackle global health challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"
This new initiative, established under the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement<\/a> (SPA), aims to enhance collaboration on key health issues affecting populations in both regions and worldwide.<\/p>\n The virtual meeting, held between Stella Kyriakides, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, and Canada’s Minister of Health, Mark Holland, marked the formal beginning of this partnership.<\/p>\n The dialogue will focus on three global health priorities: antimicrobial resistance (AMR), health security, and non-communicable diseases, including cancer and mental health.<\/p>\n As Commissioner Kyriakides stated: “Canada is a key partner for the EU when it comes to tackling global health challenges.<\/p>\n “With today’s launch of the first EU-Canada Health Policy Dialogue, we are reaffirming our mutual commitment to a closer partnership on health under the SPA.<\/p>\n Global cooperation is key when it comes to responding to pandemics, tackling AMR and improving cancer and mental health care.<\/p>\n “I firmly believe that the EU and Canada working together helps to improve healthcare in the EU and beyond and deliver on our commitments in the EU Global Health Strategy.”<\/p>\n The EU and Canada underscored the growing global health threat posed by antimicrobial resistance, recognising it as an urgent public health and socio-economic issue.<\/p>\n Both parties highlighted the upcoming United Nations High-Level Meeting on AMR as an important opportunity to reinforce global commitment to addressing this challenge.<\/p>\n The dialogue commits the EU and Canada to closer collaboration on monitoring antimicrobial use, enhancing surveillance, and setting targets to reduce resistance.<\/p>\n Additionally, both sides will promote the ‘One Health’ approach, which integrates environmental factors into the fight against AMR and explores economic incentives to stimulate the development of new antimicrobials.<\/p>\nTackling antimicrobial resistance<\/h3>\n