Health and Environment Alliance

Join Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and the Dutch Parkinson’s Association (De Parkinson Vereniging) for our upcoming science and policy webinar, “Pesticides and Parkinson’s disease: the health impacts of regulatory decisions”, taking place on Thursday, 10 September at 17:00 CEST. This webinar aims to provide a space to reflect on the importance of ensuring that EU regula...

HEAL's comments and recommendations on the update of the REACH Restriction Roadmap’s rolling list. HEAL's comments were submitted as a follow-up to the 58th CARACAL Meeting.

Poland faces some of the most acute climate-health risks in the EU. A new briefing from the EU-funded CATALYSE project, coordinated by ISGlobal — in which HEAL is a partner — explores the health impacts of those risks and recommends solutions local policymakers can implement to protect public health. The briefing presents evidence from the…

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has lowered the consumer health-based guidance values of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). TFA is an extremely persistent ultra-short-chain PFAS compound, which is highly water-soluble and has been widely detected in human and environmental samples, including in drinking water sources. Ambitious and complementary regulatory approaches, particu...

This high-level conference will bring together EU, national and local policy-makers, scientists, health experts and civil society organisations to present the latest evidence on the health costs of pollution and discuss the way forward for an EU 2030 agenda which invests in people’s health, reduces disease cost, and lessens inequalities.