Speakers
Description
Authors: Margaret Kuklinski (University of Washington), Frederick Groeger-Roth (Ministry of Justice Lower Saxony), Marica Ferri (European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA)), Karin Streimann (National Institute for Health Development), Maximilian von Heyden (FINDER e.V.), Elena Gervilla Garcia (University of the Balearic Islands), Samuel Tomczyk (University of Greifswald), Gregor Burkhart (EUSPR)
The prevention continuum addresses a wide range of physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including mental illness, obesity or addictive disorders. To be able to provide tailored diagnostics, intervention, and support that recognize individual needs but also population and environmental health parameters, intersectoral cooperation and interdisciplinary action are needed. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has recently published a Blueprints document synthesizing the state of the art and making recommendations for the implementation of such prevention systems and infrastructure to support them. Although developed from a US perspective, so its translation to international contexts is an open question. The Blueprint raises issues of relevance to the European prevention context. They include governance, financing, workforce development, interventions, and data. After briefly presenting key findings from the NASEM report, this campfire will illuminate existing strengths, needs, and priorities for a European prevention infrastructure that enables local, regional, and national prevention efforts to be stable and to thrive. Participants represent several different European countries, and also bring research and practice, as well as international perspectives and experience, to this discussion.
