Eveline Spalburg is a student enrolled in a master International Public Health at the VU University in Amsterdam and she is doing her internship at the EuSANH secretariat. During a 5- months internship, Eveline will analyse all members’ work plans for overlapping topics on which collaboratively science advisory reports could be prepared. She will also assess how members can optimally collaborate in such expert groups. Moreover, she will help preparing a new proposal for European funding taken overlapping topics and the current European funding programmes into account.
Romania and Poland have worked hard to finalise the questionnaire of WP2. The aim of the questionnaire is twofold. On the one hand, the policy analysis (Part I) will enable us to create a profile of the organisations participating in the study, as a basis for mutual learning, and thereby lay foundation for an ‘ideal’ science advisory structure. On the other hand, the second part of the questionnaire will refer to particular situations of producing science advice for health in your organisation. The main scope of this part is to collect valid information about scientific advisory reports published by each EuSANH member organisation over the last 3-4 years. The questionnaires were sent to each national science advisory body that is also a member of the EuSANH network. More information about the results of the survey will be published as soon as it is available.
One of the core tasks within WP 4 is the development of a dynamic but sustainable communication and cooperation structure for EuSANH beyond the time frame of the EuSANH-ISA project. The sustainable structure needs to support EuSANH’s main objective, namely: the promotion of independent scientific advice on health issues to national and European health authorities and to support evidence based health policies. Taking all different elements into account, we believe that a bottum-up approach in support of the idea of a coordinating network with different expert groups working on a specific subject will form the best possible basis for the (future) EuSANH network. Nevertheless, at the same time, there should be a top-down monitoring of the identity, strategy and integrity of the network as a whole.
WP5 started in February 2010 and has so far focused on defining the topic of the pilot case study, identifying relevant reports as well as contacting potential collaborators. The suggested topic is a science advisory report on “Determinants of a successful implementation of population based cancer screening programs” and the primary objective is to analyze the processes for the initiation, production and implementation of certain screening programmes in relation to their uptake in different countries. For further details, please contact allander@sbu.se.
Minutes will be published soon.
