The Childhood Leukaemia Project: evaluation of a bottum-up international collaboration between scientific health advisory bodies within the EuSANH framework 

Within the framework of EuSANH two of the participating SAB’s, the Dutch Health Council (HC) and the Belgian Superior Health Council (SHC), decided to collaborate on a scientific advice regarding the role of environmental factors in the induction of childhood leukaemia.

At the start of the project, a project fiche was written by the secretariat members with the help of experts. A list of necessary expertise was drafted by the secretariats of the SAB’s and 8 experts per country were chosen from shortlists of national top experts, assuring 1 or 2 experts per expertise.

Travel expenses were paid by each SAB for their own experts, the organization of the meetings was assured and paid for by the SHC and the drafting of the document (including a systematic literature review) was assured and paid for by the HC.

As to the setup of the advice, prior to the meetings of the experts, a systematic literature review was conducted by the HC. A small group of experts decided on the search and inclusion/exclusion criteria used for this systematic literature search which was thereafter performed the Dutch branch of the Cochrane Collaboration.

The next step consisted of five meetings of each approximately 4 hours inAntwerp. At the first meeting the methodology and results of the literature search were presented to the group of experts: determining ‘gaps’ and important publications which were missed by the systematic literature review. In the next meetings, spread over one year, draft advices were discussed by the working group.

The advice is currently being finalized and will be peer reviewed by a large group of invited experts from Belgium, The Netherlands and other EuSANH partners on the 3^rd of May.

Dear members,

Enclosed you will find the EuSANH NEWSLETTER !
May we remind you to forward the EuSANH e-newsletter to relevant national and regional stakeholders and target groups.

As this newsletter is open for improvement, I kindly ask you to send your comments to fabrice.peters@health.belgium.be

Kind regards

EuSANH workshop and exhibition booth in Copenhagen

The final results of the EuSANH-ISA project will be presented at our workshop ‘Translating science into policy: illustration of a methodological framework for science advice’ on Friday 11 November 13.45 hr at the European Public Health Conference in Copenhagen. We hope to welcome all EuSANH members, EUSANH-ISA external advisors and all other stakeholders interested to attend our session and participate in the discussion. You can also meet us us at the EuSANH exhibition booth, no 7.

Translating science into policy – illustration of a methodological framework for science advice

 (Chairs Louise Gunning-Schepers, Dorine Coenen)

Introduction – Role of science advice at a European Level (in relation to JPI and EAP)

(Louise Gunning, GR, NL)

A common methodological framework of Science Advice

Results of survey policy makers and SAB staff

(Paloma Conde ISCIII, Spain)

Steps principles and guidelines

(Eert Schoten, GR, NL)

Two case studies

Determinants for a successful implementation of cancer screening programmes

(Susanne Allander, SBU, Sweden)

Childhood leukemia

(Katty Cauwerts, SHC, Belgium)

Panel discussion on collaboration between SABs on national and European level

Bernardo Delogu (EC), Kevin McCarthy (EC), Carlos Segovia (ISCIII), Susanne Allander (SBU)

Closure and announcement of the new EuSANH organisation and invitation to join

(Louise Gunning-Schepers)

For more information about the EuSANH network, please download and difuse our new brochure

EuSANH-ISA Final Conference

13-14 October 2011– Bucharest Romania

Hotel Novotel, Bucharest City Centre or restaurant nearby

The last year of our EuSANH-ISA project is running fast and the last deliverables are being prepared. Although the official end is January 2012 we decided to have our official closure of the EuSANH-ISA project and the launch of the new EuSANH organisation this year in Bucharest

This event is open to EuSANH-ISA project members and presidents of Science Advisory Bodies (SABs) in Europe interested to become founding member at the first Governing Council meeting.of the EuSANH ® Network

Final program and EuSANH Brochure

For more information or to register, please contact the secretariat: d.coenen@gr.nl

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PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

3rd EuSANH conference, the Netherlands, 4 and 5 December 2008 – Prevention of NCD’s; Improving Science Advice for Health

• Conclusions
• Presentations (link to the public library of the EuSANH community)
• Programme

2nd EuSANH conference, Luxembourg, 29 and 30 November 2007 – Methodological aspects of science advice

• Minutes
• Presentations (link to the public library of the EuSANH community)
• Programme

1st EuSANH conference, Brussels, 15 September 2006 - Foundation meeting

• Minutes
• Presentations (link to the public library of the EuSANH community)
• Programme

On 7-9 February,  European experts on cancer screening implementation met at a 2-day workshop organized by the Swedish EuSANH member SBU in Stockholm.  Relevant stakeholders were involved as observers of this expert committee. The workshop was part of the FP7 project Improving science advice for health in Europe and aimed at preparing a first joined science advisory report on ‘Determinants of successful implementation of cancer screening programmes’.   Two days hard work resulted in a draft statement and recommendations for national health policy makers. The final report will be published later this year. Moreover, this workshop illustrated the networks’ functioning and use of its methodological ‘best practices’.

Dear members,

Enclosed you will find the EuSANH NEWSLETTER !
May we remind you to forward the EuSANH e-newsletter to relevant national and regional stakeholders and target groups.

As this newsletter is open for improvement, I kindly ask you to send your comments to fabrice.peters@health.fgov.be

Kind regards

Dear members,

Enclosed you will find the EuSANH NEWSLETTER!
May we remind you to forward the EuSANH e-newsletter to relevant national and regional stakeholders and target groups.

As this newsletter is open for improvement, I kindly ask you to send your comments to fabrice.peters@health.fgov.be

Kind regards

EuSANH was present and had a small exhibition at the Open European Health Forum in Brussels last June. Currently, we are preparing a specific dissemination plan for the reports of the policy and thematic analysis. This included a workshop at the European Public Health Association in Amsterdam, on Saturday 13 November 2010 from 10.30-12.00, where the Steering Committee presented and discussed the first results of the EuSANH-ISA project.

• Outline of workshop – Translating science into policy –first results of EuSANH-ISA. Chairs André Knottnerus and Dorine Coenen;
• Challenges of science advice for health policy-interaction between national and European perspectives (Nick Fahy, European Commission);
• Current performance of science advisory bodies on health in European member states: results of a survey (Monika Skiba, Poland);
• Profile of science advisory reports on health in European member states: results of a survey (Marius Ciutan, Romania);
• Increasing the quality of science advice – a methodological framework (Carlos Segovia, Spain);
• Determinants of a successful implementation of population based cancer screening programs (Monica Hultcrantz and Susanne Allander, Sweden);
• Panel discussion.

The electronic format of the policy makers questionnaire is finished. Spain has started sending the questionnaires to the policy makers’ contacts in the different countries participating in EuSANH-ISA. The policy maker participation in Spain has turned out to be successful. Given that the first round was during the summer holidays, we will have a second round, and inform EuSANH-ISA partners in order for them to monitor the process.

Regarding the science advisors questionnaire, the pilot process has finished. As soon as the science advisory bodies (SAB’s) staff member contacts are informed, this second sending process will start. In Spain the contact with the participants in this second questionnaire has already started.