National Science Advisory Bodies and policy makers are welcome to join EuSANH!

Join EuSANH
To join EuSANH or to receive more info, send an e-mail to eusanh@gr.nl.

Membership fee
The membership fee for 2012 is € 5000. Member orgnisations from low or middle-income countries may decide to pay a lower amount. For more information, please contact the EuSANH secretariat.

Advantages for National Science Advisory Bodies

• Share information and expertise with other science advisory bodies (SAB’s). They aim at coordinating work programmes, and seek cooperation in devising reports on health issues across national borders;
• Stay informed about science advisory reports on important health issues of partner organisations. In order to increase the quality and efficiency of scientific advice, it is important to learn from the work of other science advisory bodies and public health experts;
• Create a network for exchange of staff members (for a short time) working at similar subjects;
• Exchange and collaborate on the methodology of constructing science advisory reports;
• Collaborate in submitting project proposals for European funding;
• Participate in the annual EuSANH conference;
• Gain access and be able to use the restricted information on the SINAPSE e-Community members’ page.  Here members can exchange confidential information;
• Use the EuSANH logo on the website of their organisation and science policy advisory reports (SPAR);
• Decide upon the network’s policy as well as the network’s financial policy;
• Can be elected member of the Executive Board or President or Vice-President;
• Can propose health topics on which they wish to join forceshelp and help to identify knowledge gaps as a priority for new health research programmes;
• Can use and improve the common methodology for  drawing up SARs for national or international use;
• Can co-operate in submitting EuSANH project proposals for European funding;
• Can co-operate on EuSANH top-down advisory reports;
• Participate in the annual meeting of the Governing Council, participate in the conferences with the United States Institute of Medicine (IOM);
• Etc.

Advantages for policy makers

• The participating SAB’s will expand their scientific cooperation to other European countries, to increase the transnational impact and benefits of science-based health policy making. Hence, EuSANH makes it possible to mobilise a large number of scientific organisations/experts and enrich further the knowledge base by involving experts with different backgrounds and coming from several disciplines (to cope with the multidisciplinary and a more complex nature of the issue at stake).
• EuSANH convenes the best experts from Europe to make science evidence-based policy recommendations on major health issues. Through collaboration with EuSANH, policy makers at the European and national level can use the high-quality science advisory reports as input to evidence-based decision-making. 
• In addition, policy makers can add health topics for science advice in their work plans and help to identify knowledge gaps as a priority for new health research programmes.