EU Commission publishes key EU health goals and initiatives

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The EU Commission has published alongside the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, the European and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions a communication setting out the EU's health goals and its initiatives to achieve these objectives. These include the creation of a Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, tackling serious cross-border health threats, and stronger mandates for the European Medical Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Also discussed are improving access to safe, affordable and innovative medicines, ensuring the availability of critical medicines and medical devices, and fighting antimicrobial resistance. Finally, the communication also underlines the need to make health systems more resilient with the EU4Health programme, the need to prevent non-communicable diseases, the need to strengthen Europe's Beating Cancer Plan building on the EU Mission on Cancer, and the need to safeguard mental health European Health Data Space European Reference Networks and investments in 1+ Million Genomes initiative...