Giedrė Peseckytė
@GPeseckyt
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Health Care Reporter at @POLITICOEurope 📩 [email protected]
Joined February 2013
No deal reached on #EHDS as lawmakers remained split over opt-out question
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A great discussion that helps to understand the frustrations in agri sector, featuring my favourite agri reporters in town @NatashaFoote and @paulandresr_ Listen to it here:
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After widespread protests, Europe is re-assessing attempts to make agriculture greener
If you missed it the first time round, you can relive all the fun again here
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I am happy to announce about recent changes in my career - starting this week I joined the health care team at @POLITICOEurope. Glad to be remaining on the health beat and thankful to @Euractiv for the last three years! My new email to reach me is gpeseckyte@politico.eu 📩
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@MaxSattonnay @GPeseckyt @EURACTIV @Future4care Today's event is about understanding how the skills gap impacts the European healthcare innovation sector and brainstorming potential solutions by looking at existing skills initiatives, fostering Public-Private collaborations, and analysing #SkillsGap implications
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To mark #WomenDay, @clarabbauer and I spoke to @EU_Health chief @SKyriakidesEU about #WomensHealth on @eaHealthEU podcast. "There need to be clear ways for women to report sexual harassment/inappropriate behaviours in workplace," she said. Check it out: 🎧 https://t.co/16lrFsZYbo
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This week, EURACTIV’s journalists Clara Bauer and Gerardo Fortuna sat with the EU’s health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides to talk about women’s health on the occasion of International Women’s Day....
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💉🧵As 2022 comes to an end, little thread to recap everything we know so far about Ursula von der Leyen’s texts with Pfizer CEO @AlbertBourla and the #COVID19 vaccine contracts 👇1/14
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Whether it is on the field or on-the-job harassment, as one of the participants said, we need to be empowered to say: "No, this is harassment. I am being targeted. This isn’t what the industry should look like anymore"
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“I have faced harassment both from the subjects of my stories and from professors/editors within the industry,” a US student journalist said. Poynter's survey is another reminder to journalists to be vocal when facing any form of harassment.
About 40% of survey participants stopped the harassment themselves by quitting their reporting job or dropping their journalism class. https://t.co/HFtzdCzc0h
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This is not “the new normal”. The climate crisis will continue to escalate and get worse as long as we stick our heads in the sand and prioritise profit and greed over people and planet. We are still sleepwalking towards the edge.
Scorching hot across western Europe with profound records being shattered. A thread...
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The EU has to offer Ukraine "top-quality healthcare," according to 🇨🇿 health minister @vlvalek, who told @EURACTIV it is "not only ethically important to do this but also necessary". Read more in this exclusive interview by @gerardofortuna & @AmalieMersh
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Cancer screening, negotiations on long-term COVID-19 vaccine contracts, the European Health Data Space (but not all of it), and the care of Ukrainians will be the main priorities of the Czech...
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#Roma discrimination is not without consequences as 34% of them suffer from severe depression, writes @clarabbauer. A crucial aspect of their well-being, mental health is though an under-represented issue among Roma. Read more on this week's Health Brief: https://t.co/VlB9uk6GRn
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Lower life expectancy, limited access to health services, and violation of human rights affect the mental health of Roma people living in Europe. NGOs are sounding the alarm about that.
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Monkeypox risk for the broader population remains "very low” but if human-to-animal transmission occurs and the virus spreads in an animal population, there is a risk that the disease could become endemic in Europe. https://t.co/JZe3E9TxgP
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FEMM Committee Chair, socialist Polish MEP Robert Biedroń said: “it is inadmissible for Ukrainian women fleeing from conflicts and searching for shelter in Poland to be forced to continue pregnancies resulting from brutal rape”. https://t.co/BBtFwCUF4v
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Ukrainian women fleeing the war are at risk of sexual violence, rape, and trafficking and those who are pregnant as a result cannot get an abortion in Poland due to one of Europe's strictest anti-a...
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European Immunization Week starts today - give a read on what is the situation with routine #vaccination in #Europe 💉 https://t.co/vz63Xd7gZw
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Although routine immunisation rates appear to be recovering, the refugee influx from Ukraine into neighbouring countries has presented a further challenge.
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Women among researchers 👩🔬 Top eight #OECD countries: 🇱🇻 50.7% 🇱🇹 49% 🇮🇸 46.4% 🇨🇷 44.3% 🇵🇹 42.8% 🇪🇪 42.5% 🇪🇸 41.3% 🇸🇰 41% Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/Gn5HFGfxZU
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Important #UPDATE on the multi-country #Salmonella outbreak linked to chocolate products. More information: https://t.co/JQxANPU75q And below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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An outbreak caused by monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium is rapidly evolving in eight EU/EEA countries and the United Kingdom (UK).
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He wished that "war comes to an end swiftly without further loss of life," addig that "Tragically, this is not the reality”. On the #WorldHealthDay over 10 additional attacks on healthcare were verified in #Ukraine.
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