The EU needs an ambitious and coherent agenda for the 2019-2024 legislative term to boost the resilience, equitability and sustainability of Europe’s healthcare systems. This report, based on a Science|Business expert roundtable, sets out recommendations for such an agenda.

During the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in western Africa, public health expert Nicolas Meda of Burkina Faso played a key role in his country’s response to the epidemic. In an interview, he sets out the lessons learnt from the experience.

Advanced therapies feature in new Innovative Medicines Initiative Calls for proposals, along with topics on artificial intelligence; the need for reliable, relevant health information; and ways of incorporating patients’ perspectives into healthcare and cancer clinical trials.

IMI has involved patients in its projects and activities since the beginning. Now, IMI is creating a pool of patient experts to strengthen the role and voice of patients in IMI activities at strategic and operational levels.