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Embedding Humanities in Horizon 2020 HealthPatricia ClarkeSenior Policy Analyst/ National DelegateHealth Research Board
What is Horizon 2020
− Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs and growth
− Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods, safety and environment
− Strengthening the EU’s global position in research, innovation and technology
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
The EU’s 2014-20 programmefor research & innovation
A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union &European Research Area
• …for collaborative research, global consortia, and public-private co-operation
• …to fund excellent applied health and ageing research and innovation
• …to bring together leading players from Europe and across the globe
• …to tackle key European and global health challenges
FP7 'Health' – the largestmulti-national fund…
Building on experience
• Translating science to benefit citizens
• Improve health outcomes
• Support a competitive health & care sector
• Test and demonstrate new health & care models, approaches and tools
• Promote healthy and active ageing
Horizon 2020 - Societal Challenge 1
Do also look elsewhere! EU support of health related research & innovation is not limited to Societal Challenge 1
H2020 Health Work Programme 2014/15
Call for 'co-ordination activities'16 topics (10 in 2014, 6 in 2015)
Call 'personalising health and care'34 topics (15 in 2014, 17 in 2015, 2 open in both years)
€ 1,21billion
Building Strong Foundations
• Wellbeing - improving Quality of Life• Behaviour Change – understanding the ways in
which individuals make choices and decisions• Ethics - adopting new technologies• Globalisation – understanding the political,
economic, cultural and technological impacts• Underpinning policy development – e.g.
concepts of innovation, social interactions• Opportunities for integrative thinking and
imagination, for creativity and discovery, and for good citizenship.
Call ‘Personalising Health and Care’Seven Focus Areas
1. Understanding health, ageing & disease
2. Effective health promotion, disease prevention,preparedness and screening
3. Improving diagnosis
4. Innovative treatments and technologies
5. Advancing active and healthy ageing
6. Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care
7. Improving health information, data exploitation and providing an evidence base for health policies and regulation
Specific Health Topics 2014
PHC 1 – 2014: Understanding health, ageing and disease: determinants, risk factors and pathways
Population level, extending to health promotion with emphasis on healthy ageing.
PHC 5 – 2014: Health promotion and disease prevention: translating ‘omics’ into stratified approaches
inclusive of lifestyle factors
PHC 6 – 2014: Evaluating existing screening and prevention programmes
Need to be assessed for effective delivery . Provide evidence for policymakers
PHC 17 – 2014: Comparing the effectiveness of existing healthcare interventions in the elderly
Includes supporting best practice guidelines
Specific Health Topics 2014PHC 19 – 2014: Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: Service robotics within assisted living environments
Longer-term ,cost effectiveness, social exclusion. Non-technical Measured impacts –encourage user participation, 3600around the patient – carers, keeping people at home.
PHC 23 – 2014: Developing and comparing new models for safe and efficient, prevention oriented health and care systems:
Practical application – not theoretical. Identify more advantageous health care interventions that could be implemented.
PHC 26 – 2014: Self-management of health and disease: citizen engagement and mHealth
Health apps for disease management within health care itself. Behavioural science and also deals with service, education
PHC 31 – 2014: Foresight for health policy development and regulation
Mainly indicators on healthcare but also sustainability of healthcare system
Specific Health Topics 2015PHC 4 – 2015: Health promotion and disease prevention: improved inter-sector co-operation for environment and health based interventions
Impact on series of public health programmes and not just on health systems
PHC 21 – 2015: Advancing active and healthy ageing with ICT: Early risk detection and intervention
Reliably link behavioural changes to impact . Efficiency gains - improve QoL patients and carers, efficiency in healthcare systems, competitiveness and efficiency gains for market . Ethics .
PHC 22 – 2015: Promoting mental wellbeing in the ageing population
Specific Health Topics 2015PHC 24 – 2015: Piloting personalised medicine in health and care systems
Larger pilots, new models of care in conjunction with health authorities. Health economics. Show how it can be implemented.
PHC 25 – 2015: Advanced ICT systems and services for Integrated Care
Design new care pathways,Expected impact –reduce admissions, bed stays etc., indicate more coordination between specialities, and bring strong evidence for health care outcomes
PHC 27 – 2015: Self-management of health and disease and patient empowerment supported by ICT
Review of Population Health and Health Services Research in Ireland1. Lack of capacity2. Attract hidden capacity to address
complex questions3. Support and funding
Embed by learning nationally: HRB and interdisciplinary health care
Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Awards
(ICE) programme
Research Leaders Awards
(RLA)Structured Population and Health-services Research
Education (SPHeRE)
Representation within the H2020 System
Developing Creative Connections
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