About Us
Global Health concerns everyone.
Keeping high quality and affordable healthcare and prevention strategies in the years to come represents a serious challenge. Global Health challenges need global solutions. This in turn requires global efforts in multidisciplinary research and innovation. Now that the global order based on multilateral rules and values is under pressure, we need to join forces to achieve impact. As a global leader, the EU can boost international cooperation to create synergies in Global Health to maximize the impact of research and innovation.
“Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”
The European Global Health Research Institutes Network (EGHRIN) is a new network of leading research institutions in Europe promoting and advocating for Global Health research and innovation. GHRIN aims to facilitate and strengthen equitable collaboration among our institutes and their global partners. We provide knowledge insights that can inform improvements in health systems, including the development of cost-effective innovations for the long-term sustainability of health care systems worldwide.
In addition, EGHRIN is engaged beyond the health sector to advocate in favor for health through outreach to other sectors and disciplines in full alignment with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) framework. EGHRIN members see Global Health as a research field focused on health of all human populations with a special focus on poverty-related diseases and equity in access to health care.
EGHRIN members therefore work (i) in an interdisciplinary fashion, and (ii) to pursue transboundary and multi-sectorial nature of health problems and solutions to major global trends, such as climate change, the spread of anti-microbial resistance, globalization etc.
To date, EGHRIN has united 23 European Global Health Institutes that wish to align their efforts. While each institute will keep its own research agenda, through EGHRIN we will foster collaboration with the aim to achieve more impact in the field of Global Health. Through innovative and multidisciplinary research and innovation, we will contribute to building better integrated health systems and thinking beyond the traditions that confine our healthcare systems today.
By doing so, we aim to improve people’s health, thus helping people to live longer, healthier lives and reach the SDG 3 goal to “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. More specifically, we will prioritize research that contributes to decrease the burden of disease as a result of an unhealthy lifestyle and unhealthy environment and decrease health disparities between the rich and poor population in the world.
Our mission is to align the research activities from the institutes to improve Global Health by the generation of knowledge and through meaningful innovation and translation whenever we see potential for complementarity between the EHGRIN member institutes. — EGHRIN needs a more succinct mission statement
EGHRIN envisions joint advocacy towards both the national institutions and governments and EU institution a through ongoing personal contacts with members of the European and Member State parliaments as well as key people in national ministries and at the EU in Brussels with Horizon Europe being the joint program of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council. For the EU as well as national governments within the EU, this new network will be an opportunity to engage with experts in Global Health research in various academic fields and to be connected to a multi-country, transdisciplinary and intercontinental expert group which will devise Global Health research solutions from which the EU and national governments can benefit.