History of the ASPHER Deans’ and Directors’ Retreat

Organised each year in a different location in the European region, the Deans' and Directors' Retreat is the most important ASPHER membership event of the year. This high level meeting of the heads of our member institutions plays a significant role in evaluating the ongoing activities, while also planning and organising the future direction of ASPHER.

The following schools were hosts of the ASPHER Deans' and Directors' retreats since 1996:

1996 October: Netherlands School of Public Health, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
1997 May: Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
1997 October: School of Public Health, Institute for Postrgaduate Medical Education, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
1998 May: National School of Public Health ISCIII, Madrid, SPAIN
1998 October: Department of Hygiene and Community Medicine, University of Torino, Torino, ITALY
1999 May: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UNITED KINGDOM
1999 October: National School of Public Health ISCIII, Madrid, SPAIN
2000 May: CEFPAS, Caltanissetta - Sicily, ITALY
2000 October: Department of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DENMARK
2001 May: Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg, GERMANY
2002 May: National School of Public Health, Saint-Maurice, FRANCE
2003 May: National School of Public Health, Athens, GREECE
2004 May: National School of Public Health, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
2005 May: School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld, GERMANY
2006 May: Institute of Public Health, UMIT, Hall - Tirol, AUSTRIA
2007 May: National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development, Bucharest, ROMANIA
2008 May: Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM
2009 May: Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
2010 May: EHESP School of Public Health, Rennes, FRANCE
2011 May: Centre - School of Public Health, University of Belgrade, SERBIA
2012 May: Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, POLAND
2013 May: Department of International Health, Maastricht University, Maastricht, THE NETHERLANDS
2014 May: Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, CROATIA
2015 June: Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
2016 May: National School of Public Health, Athens, GREECE
2017 May/June: EHESP School of Public Health, Rennes, FRANCE
2018 June: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UNITED KINGDOM
2019 May: IT Schools of Hygiene and Public Health, Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice - Sicily, ITALY
2020 June: Online event
2021 September: Online event
2022 October: Faculty of Public Health, Medical University of Sofia, BULGARIA

Sponsors 2023

The ASPHER UCD Retreat Team would like to thank the following sponsors for making this event possible: