Stakeholders from across the Alliance were engaged in the development of the Focus Areas in a multifaceted and collaborative effort, which also drew on learnings from EUGLOH’s initial phase and from the completed research project EUGLOHRIA. In addition, the development process used complementary analytical approaches to ensure that the new Focus Areas are firmly rooted both in EUGLOH’s expertise and in international health priorities: An analysis of the scientific output of EUGLOH’s member universities to map their academic expertise along with a review of policy priorities advocated by the “Quadripartite” – the coalition of the World Health Organization (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – which follows an integrated One health approach.
With their broad, interdisciplinary scope, the Focus Areas will serve as strategic anchors for EUGLOH’s activities, fostering interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration, inspiring new initiatives, and reinforcing the Alliance’s aim to tackle the most urgent and complex societal challenges in global health.
Read more about EUGLOH’s Focus Areas in Global Health here.