European Parliament Committee on Public Health

The Committee on Public Health (SANT) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. It is responsible for public-health policy, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, health preparedness and responses to cross-border health threats, as well as parliamentary scrutiny of the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The body was originally created in 2023 as the Subcommittee on Public Health under the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. It later became a separate standing committee during the tenth parliamentary term in 2024, while retaining the abbreviation SANT.

Responsibilities

The committee is responsible for programmes and specific measures in the field of public health, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, health aspects of bioterrorism and relations with the principal EU agencies responsible for medicines and disease prevention.

Its work includes:

EU programmes and actions in the field of public health; pharmaceutical legislation and access to medicines; medical devices and health technologies; preparedness for and response to cross-border health threats; disease prevention, vaccination policy and antimicrobial resistance; mental health and the prevention of non-communicable diseases; health aspects of bioterrorism; the European Medicines Agency; and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The committee holds exchanges of views with EU agencies, health ministers, researchers and other stakeholders. Its recent work has included medical-device legislation, digital health, youth mental health, biotechnology, cardiovascular disease and oversight of the European Medicines Agency.

History

The Subcommittee on Public Health was created in March 2023 in response to the increased political importance of EU health policy after the COVID-19 pandemic. Its creation followed the work of temporary bodies such as the Special Committee on Beating Cancer and the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic. In the tenth parliamentary term, public-health responsibilities were separated from the environment committee and assigned to SANT as an independent standing committee.

Chairs

Name Political group Member state Took office Left office Adam Jarubas EPP Poland 2024 Incumbent

Members

10th Parliament, 2024–2029

The committee currently has 43 full members. Its current composition is shown below, with the chair and vice-chairs indicated in italics.

European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Adam Jarubas, Poland, Chair Bartosz Arłukowicz, Poland Michalis Hatzipantelas, Cyprus András Tivadar Kulja, Hungary Marie-Sophie Lanig, Germany Peter Liese, Germany Letizia Moratti, Italy Elena Nevado del Campo, Spain Jessica Polfjärd, Sweden Oliver Schenk, Germany Tomislav Sokol, Croatia Romana Jerković, Croatia, Vice-Chair Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Lithuania Christophe Clergeau, France Nicolás González Casares, Spain Alessandra Moretti, Italy Victor Negrescu, Romania Nikos Papandreou, Greece Tiemo Wölken, Germany Emmanouil Fragkos, Greece, Vice-Chair Waldemar Buda, Poland Michele Picaro, Italy Ruggero Razza, Italy Laurence Trochu, France Stine Bosse, Denmark, Vice-Chair Olivier Chastel, Belgium Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Slovakia Jérémy Decerle, France Vlad Voiculescu, Romania Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Laurent Castillo, France Viktória Ferenc, Hungary Gerald Hauser, Austria Ondřej Knotek, Czechia Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Spain Tilly Metz, Luxembourg, Vice-Chair Martin Häusling, Germany Ignazio Marino, Italy Catarina Martins, Portugal Valentina Palmisano, Italy Dario Tamburrano, Italy Christine Anderson, Germany Non-Inscrits Monika Beňová, Slovakia Ondřej Dostál, Czechia

Substitute members

The committee's substitute members are listed below.

European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Peter Agius, Malta Niels Flemming Hansen, Denmark Sérgio Humberto, Portugal Radan Kanev, Bulgaria Ewa Kopacz, Poland Dolors Montserrat, Spain Dan-Ştefan Motreanu, Romania Sirpa Pietikäinen, Finland Manuela Ripa, Germany Liesbet Sommen, Belgium Ingeborg ter Laak, Netherlands Estelle Ceulemans, Belgium Pierre Jouvet, France Leire Pajín, Spain Günther Sidl, Austria Marta Temido, Portugal Raffaele Topo, Italy Kristian Vigenin, Bulgaria Carlo Ciccioli, Italy Pietro Fiocchi, Italy Ondřej Krutílek, Czechia Kristoffer Storm, Denmark Aurelijus Veryga, Lithuania Andreas Glück, Germany Irena Joveva, Slovenia Billy Kelleher, Ireland Yvan Verougstraete, Belgium Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, France Valérie Deloge, France Ton Diepeveen, Netherlands Aleksandar Nikolic, France Aldo Patriciello, Italy Majdouline Sbaï, France Nicolae Ștefănuță, Romania Marie Toussaint, France Sebastian Everding, Germany Giorgos Georgiou, Cyprus Anja Hazekamp, Netherlands Ivan David, Czechia Non-Inscrits Kateřina Konečná, Czechia Friedrich Pürner, Germany

Research support

The committee's work is supported by the European Parliament's research services, which provide studies and briefings on pharmaceutical policy, disease prevention, public-health preparedness, digital health, mental health and health-system resilience.

European Parliament Committee on Public Health

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