The European Commission has published the work program for the new EU4 Health Programme for 2024. In total, the EU will invest € 4.4 billion in the programme between 2021 and 2027. 

The programme has ten specific objectives, mapped to four general objectives:

Improve and foster health

• Health promotion and disease prevention, in particular cancer
• Health initiatives and cooperation

Protect people

• Prevention, preparedness and response to cross-border health threats
• Complementing national stockpiling of essential crisis-relevant products
• Establishing a reserve of medical, healthcare and support staff

Access to medicinal products, medical devices and crisis-relevant products

• Ensuring that these products are accessible, available and affordable

Strengthen health systems

• Reinforcing health data, digital tools and services, digital transformation of healthcare
• Enhancing access to healthcare
• Developing and implementing EU health legislation and evidence-based decision making
• Integrated work among national health systems

For more information, visit the EU4Health programme website.

The work program can be found here.