■ Members today · ■ Former members, Malta circled
The idea of a European network of residents’ associations came from French and Italian public health residents in 2008. They had begun a qualitative study, by questionnaire, of how satisfied residents were with their training in the two countries, and its success encouraged them to carry on and to open the collaboration to residents in other European countries. Spanish residents joined in 2009.
EuroNet MRPH was founded in Paris on 30 June 2011 by three associations: CLISP for France, SItI for Italy and ARES for Spain. Its founding as an association under the French law of 1901 was published in the Journal officiel on 13 August 2011.
The network then grew one country at a time. The Specialty Registrars Committee of the United Kingdom’s Faculty of Public Health joined on 12 November 2011 in Zaragoza, and Portugal’s public health residents in April 2012. Ireland’s registrars, through APHRI, followed on 1 March 2014 in London; Croatia’s HDJZ on 21 March 2015 in Milan; the Netherlands’ LOSGIO on 20 November 2015 in Barcelona; and Slovenia on 26 November 2016 in Dublin. Turkey joined at the Valencia meeting on 13 July 2018.
EuroNet MRPH has also welcomed residents from countries without a member association: from Malta and Poland in 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017, Moldova in 2018 and Austria in 2019. Membership has changed over the years: Croatia’s association was a member until 2020, and Turkey’s returned in 2023 after a pause.
The network changed with the years. When COVID-19 cancelled the Spring Meeting in Murcia in March 2020, it met online, with its first online Winter Meeting and General Assembly on 12 December 2020, and held its first European Scientific Contest at the online Winter Meeting of 4 December 2021. The Board and Leads gained five new Leads in 2024 (Newsletter, Advocacy, Capacity Building, Meetings and Members) and an Alumni Lead in 2025. On 24 January 2025 the National Commissions adopted a new Statute, a Charter of Values and four policy documents, and the network became the European Network of Multidisciplinary Residents in Public Health; since 2026 an Advocacy Officer sits on the Board.
Today nine countries are members of EuroNet MRPH: France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Residency in Europe presents each of them, and Meetings keeps every meeting since 2012.