Expert Panel on effective ways of investing in health end of mandate Conference: "Evidence-based Expertise for Better Policy-making"

Brussels, 8 November 2019

The conference was an occasion to reflect on the Panel’s work at the end of the mandate of the current membership and, based on this experience, more broadly on the role of evidence-based expert’s advice in policy making. It was an opportunity to take stock of the Panel’s opinions and their interaction with health policy making and exchange views and experience on developing evidence based advice.

The event brought together a range of key experts on public health and healthcare services from institutions and professional bodies, representatives of national and EU-level independent advisory bodies, representatives of national health authorities, non-governmental organizations, academics, EU institutions and other relevant stakeholders.

• Date: 8 November 2019
• Venue: Residence Palace, Brussels, Belgium
• Programme

Main topics:

• Evidence based policy making
• The Panel experience - Universal health coverage and access to healthcare
• Measuring performance of health systems
• Lessons learned for science and evidence-based health policy making

Presentations:

• Challenging Interaction between Evidence-based Scientific Advice and Policy on Consumer Safety
  Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety
• Universal health coverage and access to healthcare: Challenges and Solutions
  On behalf of the EXPH
• Measuring performance of health systems: Challenges and Issues across Opinions
  On behalf of the EXPH
• Implementation Gap: When Health Policy Clashes with Research: Evidence-based expertise for better policy-making
  Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine Jefferson College of Population Health
• Knowledge translation: Communicating scientific opinions and their anticipated impact on policymaking
  The Vaccine Confidence Project
  London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• “Six years of the Panel: Looking back at the future”
  On behalf of the EXPH

• Evidence base for healthcare - Advisory role of Academies
  Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM) UK Academy of Medical Sciences Emeritus Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medicine at St George’s, University of London and Board Member of Public Health England

Video recording:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4