Objectives

• To have CEEBM-NET as an inter-disciplinary and inter-professional forum, where we can share our knowledge and expertise to reach our goals.
• To provide networking opportunities for health care and policy professionals, researchers, academics and everyone interested in the field of behavioural medicine and public health.
• To increase global interest in BM research and practice from a regional perspective.

We aim to cooperate in the following fields so as to integrate behavioural medicine and sciences with medicine and public health:

• Research cooperation: to promote research cooperation between researchers, clinicians and health policy professionals from Central and Eastern European countries to examine how behavioural medicine research and practice can be used to understand the health issues of countries undergoing rapid transition and how to address these health challenges in the future.
• Clinical applications: to adapt and evaluate the evidence based behavioural medicine interventions for preventing the health crisis in the region.
• Education and training (E&T): Health care providers need more extensive education and training in BM to implement BM interventions in health promotion and clinical practice. The levels, formats and contents of the education have to be specified according to the specific tasks. Exchange of educational methods and materials between institutions and countries would be useful. Regional teaching seminars and workshops with contribution of international experts and ISBM E&T Committee are planned.
• BM Organisations: With the help of the regional BM network to give birth of national BM societies and institutions in CEE.