Blood and Beyond is organizing the policy event ‘The Time is Now: Making Blood Health a Policy Priority’ alongside Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Tomislav Sokol and Michalis Hadjipantela. The event will take place on Monday 7 April from 17:00 to 18:30 (CET) in the European Parliament in Brussels.

This policy event seeks to give blood health and Patient Blood Management (PBM) implementation more visibility in the policy agenda of the EU institutions and suggest policy actions for the 2024 – 2029 term. Confirmed speakers include:

• MEP Tomislav Sokol, Member of the European Parliament
• MEP Michalis Hadjipantela, Member of the European Parliament
• Dr Joao Breda, Director WHO Europe Office for Quality of Care and Patient Safety
• Dr Manuel Pizarro, former Minister of Health of Portugal and current Member of the Portuguese Parliament
• Prof. Axel Hofmann,Chair of the WHO’s External Steering Committee on the Implementation of Patient Blood Management
• Dr Androulla Eleftheriou, Executive Director, Thalassemia International Federation (TIF)
• Dr Esther Oliva, Department of Haematology, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli di Reggio Calabria
• Kalina Bozhkova, Director, Global Alliance for Patient Access (GAfPA)

You can find more information about the (draft) agenda here.

If you want to register for the event, you can fill out the registration form via this link.