EULAR RheumaFacts

About the Initiative

RheumaFacts is a EULAR initiative dedicated to the collection of data about rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) and their impact on individuals, society and the health economy across all countries represented within the EULAR membership.

RheumaFacts aims at creating a definitive standardised source of information for data-driven advocacy, research, and policy-making to highlight the disease burden, healthcare gaps, and inequalities around RMDs across European and EULAR member countries. This data repository will be based on up-to-date general health and RMD-related information, gathered primarily by the world statistic organizations, and Scientific Societies at the national levels.

The data presented in RheumaFacts will be available to researchers and other groups such as funding agencies, decision-makers, and policymakers who can advance public health at a European level.

For more information, please contact: RheumaFacts@eular.org

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EULAR RheumaFacts steering group

Prof. Anna Molto, France

Rheumatologist & Epidemiologist, Chair of the EULAR Research Committee; Hôpital Cochin (Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Centre), Paris, France

Prof. Margreet Kloppenburg, Netherlands

Professor of Rheumatology, Chair of the EULAR Advocacy Committee; Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Prof. Loreto Carmona, Spain

Rheumatologist & Epidemiologist; Instituto de Salud Musculoesquelética, Mardid, Spain

Dr. Elena Nikiphorou, United Kingdom

Rheumatologist, Chair-Elect of the EULAR Advocacy Committee; King's College London, United Kingdom

Dr. Sofia Ramiro, Netherlands

Rheumatologist & Epidemiologist; Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden and Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, Netherlands

Prof. Jose-Maria Alvaro-Gracia, Spain

EULAR Scientific Societies Vice President, Head of the Rheumatology Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón; Associate Professor of Rheumatology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Prof. Laure Gossec, France

Rheumatologist & Epidemiologist; EULAR President-Elect. Sorbonne Université and Pitie Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France

Prof. Dr. med. Anja Strangfeld, Germany
Epidemiologist, Chair of the EULAR Public Health and Epidemiology Research Sob-Committee; German Rheumatism Research Centre and Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany