25 years learning from each other

Thank you for celebrating with us!

Throughout 2023, we had several opportunities to look back at our work and, importantly, look at the challenges and opportunities in the 25 years ahead. We were delighted to see you at events in person and online, including:

• 25 years learning from each other: final silver jubilee reception at Tallinn health systems conference (11 December, Tallinn)
• European Public Health conference and jubilee celebration (November, Dublin)
• Health Systems – the next 25 years: How do we harness innovation to improve performance? Photos and recording (September, Brussels)
• European Health Forum Gastein: Observatory silver jubilee event (September, Bad Hofgastein)
• Responding to the perma-crisis: Strengthening health systems resilience priorities and best practices - photos and recording (June, Madrid)
• European Health Management Association (EHMA) annual conference: Observatory silver jubilee reception (June, Rome)

View all jubilee photos here

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OBS25 Voices: Watch staff, Partners, friends and family of the Observatory share their memories of the Observatory on our YouTube

We encourage you to continue the conversation by sharing your memories with the Observatory using #OBS25 on X (Twitter) and LinkedIn.

About the Observatory

The Observatory 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.
  

Policy-makers use evidence more readily when they trust the evidence provider. The Observatory’s core principles (relevance, impartiality, quality, flexibility and the public good) and neutrality foster trust and the excellence of its expert academic and practitioner networks, which means its evidence can be trusted.

Learn more about the Observatory.

Brochure

Download the Observatory silver jubilee brochure
Read it here