The EU governance role in public health

Rosa Castro and Andrea Renda

Chapter 9 in Handbook of European Union Governance, 2025, pp 127-142 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The European Union (EU) has addressed health crises and challenges, promoted health research and innovation, and ensured the safety and effectiveness of health products and services traded and moved across the Union. This chapter examines the EU's role in health governance. It first explores how the EU has emerged as a governance agent for public health by providing a rapid overview of key triggering events and the EU's reaction to them. The next section considers the (legal and policy) limits and possibilities as well as the actors behind the expanding EU role in public health. The third section focuses on concrete cross-border health threats to track the evolution of the EU's role in governing public health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The final section explores the emergence of the EU as an actor in global health and the challenges behind the implementation of its newly revised post-COVID-19 Global Health Strategy.

Keywords: Public health; COVID-19; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; EU Global Health Strategy; European Health Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803925172
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