Activities to facilitate national human biomonitoring programmes in the WHO European Region

Overview

The Seventh Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health (‎5–7 July 2023, Budapest, Hungary)‎ established a new mechanism to facilitate the implementation of commitments on environment and health – the EHP (‎European Environment and Health Process)‎ Partnership, including the EHP Partnership on Human Biomonitoring (‎HBM)‎. The aim of this EHP Partnership is to extend the application of HBM as a scientific tool to inform decisions on sound chemicals management. Discussion at the First meeting of the EHP Partnership on HBM (‎Tbilisi, Georgia, 28 November 2023)‎ and the subsequent online consultation (‎14 June 2024)‎ resulted in a list of Partnership activities for the short- and long term. This publication summarizes the actions that can be performed within the HBM Partnership and provides information on the process of their development. It also includes a report on the capacity-building initiative for HBM held back-to-back with the First meeting of the HBM Partnership in Tbilisi, Georgia on 29–30 November 2023.