We are pleased to invite you to the PHIRI 3 Years Anniversary Conference, taking place on Friday 22nd of September between 9.00 - 12.45 CEST in Townhall Europe (Sq. de Meeûs 5, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium).
The recording of the event is now available here!
ABOUT
PHIRI, the Population Health Information Research Infrastructure, is implementing a research infrastructure to facilitate and generate the best available evidence for research on health and well-being of populations as impacted by COVID-19.
As we are celebrating its three years anniversary, PHIRI invites all its consortium partners and national and international stakeholders to this event in Brussels. Find below the detailed programme of the event!
Find here the complete brochure of the event!
REGISTRATION
The PHIRI anniversary conference will be a hybrid event. The deadline to subscribe for the in person event is Thursday 14th of September.
PROGRAMME
09:00 | Registration and Coffee | The doors of the venue will be open to the public at 9.00. After completing the registration and obtain the names tags, participants will be offered coffee and refreshments. |
09:30 | Opening | Dirk Ramaekers (Belgium's Federal Public Service 'Public Health') will open the meeting. Petronille Bogaert (former principal investigator of PHIRI at Sciensano, since 1/09/23 Policy Officer B2 Health Security DG SANTE European Commission) will moderate throughout the event. |
09:45 | Keynote speaker | Nienke Schutte (Sciensano) will set the scene, introduce PHIRI and the theme of the Conference. |
10:00 | Panel: Powerful tools to boost the reuse of health data | Hanna Tolonen (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare - THL) and Enrique Bernal- Delgado (Health Sciences Institute in Aragon - IACS) will introduce some of the key PHIRI outcomes in relation to tool to boost the reuse of health data such as the Health Information Portal. The short presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with experts from a range of national and international organisation very active in this field:
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10:45 | Intermezzo: Strengthening the European health workforce | Luís Lapão (Nova University Lisbon - UNL) and Mariana Peyroteo (Nova University Lisbon - UNL) will shortly introduce the work of PHIRI for capacity building and its collaborations in the field. Front-row comments by field experts from Robert Otok (Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region - ASPHER) and Matthias Wismar (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies - OBS) |
11:00 | Coffee break | The conference will break for 30 mins. Refreshments will be offered to all the onsite participants. |
11:30 | Video: PHIRI roadshow | Barthélémy Moreau de Lizoreux (Sciensano) will present the new PHIRI video, showcasing the PHIRI achievements and latest outputs. |
11:35 | Building stronger health systems | Henk Hilderink (RIVM) and Miriam Saso (Sciensano) will introduce some of the key PHIRI outcomes in relation to building stronger health systems. The short presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with experts from a range of national and international organisation very active in the field:
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12:20 | Intermezzo: Building collective intelligence: Rapid Exchange Forum | Claudia Habl (Austrian National Public Health Institute - Gesundheit Österreich) will present one of the key activity of PHIRI, the Rapid Exchange Forum and how this tool helped public health institutes across Europe to quickly gather information across Europe essential for policy decision making. Front-row comments by field experts from Jorgen Stassijns (Sciensano) and Neville Calleja (Ministry of Health, Malta) |
12:35 | Wrap-up and closing | Nienke Schutte (Sciensano) together with Andreas Holtel (European Research Executive Agency - REA) will summarize the discussions of the morning and close the event. |
12:45 | Networking lunch | A networking lunch will be offered to all the onsite participants. The guest speakers will remain available until 14.00 to answer all the questions from the attendees. |
VENUE
The event will take place at the TownHall Europe (Square de Meeûs 5, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium).