Cyprus Epidemiology and Public Health Association

13/11/2025

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead.

After an inspiring plenary on "Tackling and Determinants of Health through Policy and Governance", we choose to end Day 2 of with the above quote.

Thanks to Anna Gilmore (Professor of Public Health, University of Bath) and all other plenary speakers for the reminder that Public Health has always been political ... but it just got a lot worse.

13/11/2025

Messy BUT creative!

Using a systems approach to identify areas of action on determinants of health.

● Map the local system
● Identify leverage points
● Move upstream to paradigm-change

The approach itself is paradigm-change in strengthening local responses to Commercial Determinants of Health.

Population Health Improvement UK.

12/11/2025

Το Υπουργικό Συμβούλιο ενέκρινε χθες τη λήψη μέτρων για την αντιμετώπιση της μικροβιακής αντοχής και των νοσοκομειακών λοιμώξεων, ένα από τα πιο σοβαρά προβλήματα για την ασφάλεια των ασθενών και τη δημόσια υγεία στη χώρα μας. Σύμφωνα με πρόσφατα δεδομένα, και η Κύπρος -όπως και άλλες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες- εμφανίζει υψηλή κατανάλωση αντιβιοτικών και υψηλά ποσοστά μικροβιακής αντοχής, γεγονός που απαιτεί άμεση και συστηματική παρέμβαση.

Τα μέτρα περιλαμβάνουν τη σύσταση και λειτουργία σε όλα τα δημόσια και ιδιωτικά νοσηλευτήρια των Τοπικών Επιτροπών Ελέγχου Λοιμώξεων και των Ομάδων Επιμελητείας Αντιβιοτικών, με στόχο την πρόληψη και τον έλεγχο των νοσοκομειακών λοιμώξεων, τον ορθολογικό σχεδιασμό χρήσης αντιβιοτικών και την εφαρμογή ολοκληρωμένων προγραμμάτων ελέγχου.

Παράλληλα, όλα τα δημόσια και ιδιωτικά νοσηλευτήρια θα υποχρεούνται να καταχωρούν στην εθνική ηλεκτρονική πλατφόρμα BIOCARE δεδομένα για νοσοκομειακές λοιμώξεις, νοσοκομειακή κατανάλωση αντιμικροβιακών, επιτήρηση της συμμόρφωσης με την υγιεινή των χεριών και ποιοτικούς δείκτες οργάνωσης και υποδομής, για την παρακολούθηση και αποτελεσματική διαχείριση της μικροβιακής αντοχής και των νοσοκομειακών λοιμώξεων.

Η έγκριση των πιο μέτρων σηματοδοτεί ένα σημαντικό βήμα για την προστασία της δημόσιας υγείας και τη βελτίωση των υπηρεσιών υγείας στην Κύπρο.

12/11/2025

"When our data becomes part of someone's business model, we are no longer patients or citizens..."

Monika Kosinska, Cross-Cutting Lead Economic and Commercial Determinants of Health, World Health Organization

Plenary on Public Health in the era of misinformation and disinformation

12/11/2025

Dr. Seema Yasmin at , Emmy-award winning journalist, author, medical doctor and professor (not exact quote): "I never thought my career would bring me to what I do now [...] put on my red clown nose to talk about science [...] but did I learned something [...] that story telling and humour is the way to communicate science [...]"

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

"Here, under the Northern lights, I will wait, I will wait, I will wait for you.

[..] ...even if darkness should fill these skies"

Such a beautiful and poetic welcome!
And, appropriate...in these "dark" times.

Ida Elina 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
https://idaelina.fi/en/kalevala-project/

12/11/2025

🇫🇮 Thiis year’s conference is at a truly historic site — the very place where the Helsinki Final Act was signed in 1975

The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, which culminated here, brought together 35 nations — from across Europe, the United States, and Canada — to promote peace, cooperation, and respect for human rights across the Cold War divide.

This landmark agreement, now marking its 50th anniversary, laid the groundwork for principles we still uphold today: sovereignty, equality, human rights, and collaboration across borders — values deeply resonant with public health.

The CSCE later evolved into what we now know as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

As we open the European Public Health Conference here in Helsinki, it’s a powerful reminder that progress in , like progress in , depends on dialogue, solidarity, and shared commitment to human dignity.

12/11/2025

Welcome to Helsinki!

Opening ceremony of the 18th European Public Health Conference.

European Public Health Association - EUPHA Cyprus Epidemiology and Public Health Association

11/11/2025

is excited to attend the 18th European Public Health Conference in Helsinki, 11–14 November 2025!

Join us over the next 4 days of learning, exchange, and collaboration with Public Health colleagues from across Europe and beyond.

https://ephconference.eu

09/11/2025

Thanks Cyprus Dietetic and Nutrition Association (CyDNA) for the kind invitation to coordinate this session organised in collaboration with MAZI- Foundation for Eating Disorders and Obesity - it was a real privilege to contribute to this inspiring session.

We’re deeply grateful to Mr. Costas Katsonis and Dr. Engenia Katsoni — father and daughter — for their openness and courage in sharing their personal and family experience of anorexia. Their story resonated with a packed audience, offering invaluable insights into both the individual and family journey of .

The session unfolded in two parts — an Mentimeter activity in real-time, followed by the and discussion.

And while the Mentimeter wasn’t meant to be a knowledge quiz, we certainly all learned a thing or two — about the epidemiology of anorexia and eating disorders, community-based prevention efforts and the need to scale them up, and, most importantly, about the lived experience of those affected.

Through a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies — and even more powerfully through the of our inspiring panelists — we were reminded that and lived must walk hand in hand.

Thanks to everyone who participated and for many thoughtful questions coming through Mentimeter — we owe an apology for not getting to all of them. We look forward to continuing the conversation in a future (and longer!) session.

Our aim was to activate existing knowledge, spark reflection as a group, and raise awareness around key aspects of eating disorders — and we truly hope we managed to do that, even within the short time we had.

We’ll close with a quote from the recently releases "Inquiry into the Prevention of Eating Disorder Deaths", UK Parliament

☆ “If you are repeatedly told that recovery is unlikely, it becomes extremely difficult to imagine a different future.”
— Voice of a Researcher and Advocate for Eating Disorders

Starting from these two powerful voices, let’s continue to amplify and project the voices of lived experience — so that together, we can imagine and build a different future for prevention, treatment, and recovery from eating disorders.