Networking Break

25 years of the Observatory

Organised by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies has been developing an evidence base to support policy-makers in running, reforming and strengthening health systems since 1998. Over twenty-five years, it has demonstrated that evidence rooted in the highest quality academic analysis can make a difference. If the evidence is communicated appropriately, policy-makers use it to take better informed decisions.

The Observatory is useful as a generator of evidence and, above all, as a knowledge broker. Knowledge brokering is not an abstract cycle that turns academic analysis into policy-relevant and context-specific evidence; it is the whole basis of what the Observatory does.

•    The Observatory responds to the issues that matter to policy-makers
•    Its evidence is credible, non-normative and objective
•    It learns from its contact with decision-makers and adapts as policy needs change
•    It tailors what it presents to make the right evidence available to the right people at the right time.

Join the team of the Observatory to celebrate its silver jubilee: 25 years #learningfromeachother.