The Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS) held its seventeenth Annual Conference (PAC) on 14 November 2025. Dr. Laimutė Vaidelienė, Vice-Minister of Health of Lithuania, hosted and chaired the Conference. High-level representatives responsible for health and social affairs participated in the PAC.

The PAC appraised the progress of the NDPHS since the last Conference held on 17 January 2024. The Conference discussed the NDPHS’s strategic direction for the upcoming two-year period, chaired by Norway and co-chaired by Finland, and beyond, as well as the Partnership’s contribution to strengthening mental health.

This statement endorsed by the NDPHS Senior Representatives during the Partnership Annual Conference on 14 November 2025 in Vilnius, Lithuania, reaffirms a strengthened regional commitment to advancing mental health through coordinated, cross-sectoral policy action in the Baltic Sea Region. It highlights strategic initiatives that translate political priorities into sustainable cooperation, resilience-building, and long-term impact, including partnership with Ukraine.

This Strategy defines the Partnership’s direction, priorities, and framework for cooperation. The Strategy was revised and prolonged by the NDPHS Management Board on 21 October 2025.

The NDPHS Declaration Celebrating 20 years of cooperation and moving forward. Adopted by Heads of Delegations during the ministerial-level Partnership Annual Conference on 17 January 2024.

The NDPHS Strategy 2023-2025 provides a general framework for the Partnership’s work. It describes how we intend to be, change, and contribute to a better world.

Introduction with the NDPHS values and messages, brand image and claims. Visual identity’s examples and logo usage requirements.

Visual identity was developed in collaboration with a branding studio Podpunkt (Poland).

Usage of the NDPHS logo by parties other than the NDPHS Partners is subject to authorisation. Requests for permission should be sent to the NDPHS Secretariat at info@ndphs.org.

The Oslo Declaration established the NDPHS in 2003. It describes the Partnership’s objectives, role, priorities, finances and structures.

The Host Country Agreement between the Government of Sweden and the NDPHS Secretariat details the immunities and privileges of the Secretariat and its staff.

The Manifesto “Connecting minds across the ages” commits the NDPHS to supporting the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2030 and details the objectives for improving the health and wellbeing of the ageing populations.

The Prison Health Declaration presents the commitments that the NDPHS has made to work towards ensuring the same standard of health care that are available in the community and providing access to necessary healthcare services to prisoners without discrimination.

The NDPHS Declaration on Alcohol Policy details the regional challenges caused by harmful alcohol use and presents actions to address them within the Partnership.

The NDPHS Declaration on Antimicrobial Resistance acknowledges that AMR in micro-organisms is an increasing global health problem and a challenge to our societies. It presents the Partnership’s commitments for work to address the public health threats caused by AMR.

The NDPHS Statement on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis renews the Partners’ commitment to develop and support effective country and regional responses to further improve the current HIV and tuberculosis situations and reduce their impacts on human lives, economy and society.

The Strategy on Health at Work acknowledges that healthy working-aged population with adequate social protection is the most critical factor behind the social and economic development of enterprises, communities and nations. The Strategy includes actions that the Partnership Annual Conference recommended taking in 2008-2011.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 15th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on active and healthy ageing, held online on 25 November 2021.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 14th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on Prison Health, held in Riga, Latvia, on 28 November 2019.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 13th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on strengthening universal health coverage and harmful use of alcohol, held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 9 February 2018.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 11th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on antimicrobial resistance, held in Berlin, Germany, on 20 November 2015.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 10th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis as well as occupational accidents, held in Helsinki, Finland, on 22 November 2013.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 8th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on raising profile of health and wellbeing in the regional agenda as well as non-communicable diseases prevention and control, held online in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 25 November 2011.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 6th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on Prison Health, held online in Oslo, Norway, on 25 November 2009.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 4th Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on occupational safety and health, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 16 November 2007.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 2nd Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on health and well-being of young people, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 18 November 2005.

The document presents Chair’s Conclusions from the 1st Partnership Annual Conference, with a thematic focus on strengthening economic and social development through public health, held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 13-14 December 2004.