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Eupati, a project for informed patient and citizens

October 24, 2017

EUPATI, European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation, is a patient-led initiative that uses training courses, educational material and an online public library for empowering patients to engage more effectively in the development and approval of new treatments and become true partners in pharmaceutical research and development. Filippo Buccella, chairman of the Italian Liaison Team explains to ASSET how this initiative can involve healthy citizens as well, improving preparedness to infectious outbreaks and other crises.

Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Treatment
Tags: 
Video, engagement, participation, research, Preparedness

The ASSET final event

Monday, October 30, 2017 - 11:00

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. Its aim is to enhance advocacy and intersectoral approach in a multisetting scenario applied to fostering preparedness and response toward Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and even pandemics.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

The ASSET final event

Monday, October 23, 2017 - 16:26

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. Its aim is to enhance advocacy and intersectoral approach in a multisetting scenario applied to fostering preparedness and response toward Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and even pandemics.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

Ethics in innovation: the role of big data

October 11, 2017

The growing role of Big Data in medicine raises an ethical issue for Responsible Research and Innovation: what about privacy and a possible misuse of such information? During “Shaping the Future of Pediatrics” congress in Rome, ASSET met Alberto Tozzi, Research area coordinator and Head of Digital Medicine and Telemedicine Unit at Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome. He suggests that technical solutions can help, but they are not enough, without a cooperation among all the actors (patients, family, hospital, authorities, and so on).

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Stakeholders
Tags: 
Video, ethics, research, innovation, big data

Registrations are open for the ASSET final conference

Monday, August 28, 2017 - 08:56

ASSET is close to its conclusion and a concluding conference will be held in Rome, on October 30-31, to present all the main outcomes of the project. This event will take place at the hotel NH Roma Leonardo Da Vinci and will be targeted to a selected audience of EU stakeholders and policy makers. It is conceived as a mobilization and mutual learning event at local, national and international levels on Science in Society related issues in epidemics and pandemics.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Event, science-in-society, pandemic, Preparedness, research

Gender integration in Horizon 2020

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 09:04

Gender is considered a main issue in Horizon 2020, the largest ever EU Research and Innovation programme, with €80 billion worth of funding available over seven years. The European Commission has identified seven priority areas of societal challenges, with the goal targeting investment in research in these fields. They are:

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
gender, gender issues, science and society, clinical trials, Horizon 2020, research

Designing tomorrow's vaccines

Nabel GJ. N Engl J Med. February 7, 2013.

Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccines, research

Origins and evolutionary genomics of the novel 2013 avian-origin H7N9 influenza A virus in China: Early findings

He J, Ning L, Tong Y. Department of Biology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China.

Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Microbiology
Tags: 
influenza, H7N9, research

Origin and diversity of novel avian influenza A H7N9 viruses causing human infection: phylogenetic, structural, and coalescent analyses.

Liu D, Shi W, Shi Y, Wang D, Xiao H, Li W, et al. Lancet. On line May 1, 2013.

Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Microbiology
Tags: 
influenza, H7N9, research

Open access: an open challenge

Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 10:45

Last January, the scientific journal Nature published a news about scientists who do research funded by the Gates Foundation, who are not allowed to publish their work in those journals that do not comply with the Foundation’s open-access policy. This is the case of important publications such as Nature, Science and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Target: 
Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Policy
Tags: 
research, innovation, open access

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