About Us
The European Migraine & Headache Alliance is a non-profit association of patients, that works as an umbrella of different patient groups around Europe.
The Alliance was launched in 2006 and since then, we represent more than 30 patient groups across the continent.
EMHA is an active member of the European Federation of Neurological Alliances [EFNA], the International Association of Patient Organizations [IAPO], the European Patients Forum [EPF] and also works closely with different organizations such as the European Headache Federation [EHF], European Brain Council [EBC] among others.
About Headaches
Headache disorders are among the most common disorders of the nervous system. These include tension-type headache (TTH), migraine and chronic daily headache syndromes as well as the more rare disorders, cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), migraine alone is one of the top ten leading causes of disability and affects 12-15% of the population, which means one in seven suffer a headache disorder. Despite these data, remains under-diagnosed and under-treated throughout Europe.
In order to understand how patients evolve their lives around migraine, EMHA generates evidence with its own studies in collaboration with different associations, organizations and Universities, collecting interesting data.
News
EMHA advocates for the rights and needs of the 80 million people in Europe living with a headache disorder. Therefore, our aim is to spread and add value to all the work done by different organizations related to migraine patients and advocay groups in Europe, as well as working closely to the scientific world, giving voice and spread the concerns of headache patients across Europe.
Reaching our goal to influence policy makers and the society in general, of the importance of headache disorders.
EMHA & Allergan meeting focus
Elena Ruiz de la Torre, Executive Director of EMHA attended a business meeting on 23 January with the Allergan Company. [...]
Migraine at the workplace
European survey. Analysis of results and conclusions. The objective of this study is to know the situation of migraine workers [...]
European Migraine Day of Action with MEPS in the European Parliament
Each year, September 12th is the International Migraine Day of Action. Today, EMHA’s President and Executive Director have been invited [...]
The Dawn of a New Era in Migraine Awareness
Elena Ruiz de la Torre, presented at the IHC the movement #LightToMigraine, an initiative to mobilize and activate the Affected Migraine community and show how extraordinary they are.
New drugs, decades in the making, are providing relief for migraines.
Nancy Baum Lipsitz remembers the night the pain began. She’d had a glass of white wine with a friend and [...]
Projects
EMHA is the result of the need of making society be more aware of the importance of headache disorders which currently are not receiving the importance they deserve. Therefore, EMHA organizes and is present in activities and events relevant for headache issues, trying to give voice for those ones who need it.
EMHA also work in partnership with the research world, in finding ways to mitigate migraine, participating actively in congresses, conferences, seminars and roundtables.
Check next events at EMHA Calendar
EMHA develops its own projects in collaboration with Neurologist, Universities, Pharma Industry, Patients Associations and Official Institutions, where we work on multiple fields with the aim to bring awareness on migraine and headache disorders.
At the same time, in order to be updated with the latest news and researches, we attend to different national and international conferences, congresses, seminars, organized by medical societies, Pharma industry as well as patient associations, all around the world.
Volunteers
